Men's Dress Shirt Styles - How To Choose the Perfect Collar, Placket, Cuff & Fit

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Learn more in our written Dress Shirt Style Guide here: http://gentl.mn/shirt-style-guide #notsponsored #shirtsyles #mensdressshirts You can check out the accessories I'm wearing here: Tie: https://gentl.mn/2jf5SpP Pocket square: https://gentl.mn/2k6Ml9B 00:00 Introduction With the recent popularity of made to measure shirts and custom shirts online and offline, you get lots of options. Now that can be a blessing or a curse, depending on what you need and what you don't. Fit 00:45 Classic Fit The primary goal of the classic fit is comfort so you'll have more space in the chest, you'll have wider sleeves. Overall, it's a roomier cut with excess fabric. The idea is that it gives you mobility. 01:14 Slim Fit Basically, everything on the shirt is slimmed down. The torso is slimmed down sometimes with the use of darts in the back. The chest is smaller, the shoulder width is smaller, and oftentimes, also the sleeves are much slimmer. 01:51 Modern Fit / Contemporary Fit This is somewhere between the classic fit and the slim fit. It usually features a slightly tapered silhouette, sometimes has darts, sometimes not. It is an attractive look but it doesn't compromise comfort and mobility. 02:15 Super Skinny Fit This just means that everything is tight. The problem is that it's so tight that you easily get wrinkles all over the place. 02:36Placket Traditional front placket which is an additional piece of fabric strip that is sewn onto the top. It creates great symmetry, it's therefore very popular for a classic shirt. 03:03 French placket. Unlike the American placket, it's simply a flat, smooth edge that's folded over and sewn. 3/4 placket which means the placket doesn't go all the way down and it's more like a polo shirt, just very deep. 03:42 Fly front placket. It's called that way because the buttons are hidden with an additional piece of fabric and personally, I don't like it at all. 04:14 Collar 04:48 Spread Collar. It has a certain spread and it's used for dress shirts and casual shirts alike. It works with or without a tie and it's quite versatile. 05:15 Button-down collar. It's particularly popular for the oxford cloth button-down collar shirt. 05:45 Under button-down collars. There's simply a button placed underneath the collar so it's invisible. 06:03 Classic collar. Not too spread, tips are not too long but not too short. 06:23 Smaller collars have become very popular but most of the time, they're not very flattering especially if you wear a tie or a bow tie, it simply looks like a child collar. 06:47 Detachable wing collar. For evening wear such as white tie tailcoat and tuxedo, men would traditionally wear this one. 07:41 Mao collar. A short, stand-up collar. It's very easy to tailor and it's sometimes worn in combination with the Nehru jacket. 08:07 Club collar. It has rounded ends so you're not going to have a collar tip but they're just rounded. 08:34 Medium spread collar. It's basically not classic but not too spread. It's kind of in-between. 09:16 Extreme cutaway collar. It's just cut away so far, you cannot really wear neckwear that looks flattering. 09:45 Shirt Cuff 09:47 -French cuffs or double cuffs. 10:05 -James Bond cuff 10:16 - straight-cut cuffs, or slightly angled ones, or rounded ones 10:34 Hem Most traditional shirts have a hem that is longer in the front and at the back and cut up in the middle so you don't have excess bunching of fabric. 10:59 Yoke Traditionally, you can find a so-called split yoke in the back which originally was there to compensate for sloping shoulders. 11:21 Pleats In terms of pleats, traditional shirts oftentimes feature a center pleat down the middle. It's like a box pleat that gives you more room. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most Popular videos: How to accept a compliment - https://youtu.be/_EKXNmM1PUo 101 things that change when you dress up - https://youtu.be/JyGDd_iYaCI How to tie a Bow Tie - https://youtu.be/2I3cfa0BOOc --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Want to stay updated? Sign up here for free: https://gentl.mn/2kiqRd8 Want to see more videos? Subscribe to our channel! https://www.youtube.com/user/thegentlemansgazette --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gentleman's Gazette https://gentl.mn/2jnzTle https://www.gentlemansgazette.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gentlemansgazette Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gentlemansgazette FREE EBOOK: https://gentl.mn/2kiqRd8