OK, so I now have the first of two shirts that I have ordered being a semi formal style, the second is more of a casual shirt, here are my thoughts so far:
Pros
• Providing you do a good job of measuring, you will get a great fitting shirt, I made a slight hash of the sleeves and they are a little shorter than expected, still wearable. So if you go down this route, do not change the way they suggest to measure yourself.
• The instructions for measuring yourself are great (Take note!!!!).
• Most of the finish is very good (also see cons) especially the collar, so I am pleased with this, as for me a great shirt must have a 1st class collar.
• Ford a custom shirt, I think this is great value (£65 for 2 shirts).
• The material quality is very good although time will tell.
• The shirts arrived in a sealed bag with all the usual bits of cardboard that you get in a shop bought shirt, not a selling point but does make it look professional.
Cons
• As said before the finish is very good but the stitching on the button holes is a little ragged, nothing that a bit of fine scissor work didn't sort out, but is a little disappointing.
• Order to delivery took 5 weeks (the web site does say up to 6 weeks) if you are like me and a little impatient this can be a bit frustrating
• You can get cheaper off the peg shirts, I usually get shirts from Next as they have 3 different fits for most shirts, they also keep all the sizes and fits in the store so you can try them.
In summary, I would probably order from them again but I will be trying another company (tailorstore) first. If you are like me and a bit fussy on fit then custom shirts are definitely the way to go, I spend a lot of time at the gym, although I am not the body builder type, my shoulders are bigger than average and belly smaller than average, so fit is always a problem.
I am sure there are some other things to add but once I receive the second shirt I will add more info
