| Finding good, high quality dress shirts is no small feat. | | | | lighter colored and especially white shirts. |
| A combination of good style as well as comfort, it | | | | Ironing Your Dress Shirt |
| can often be difficult to find just the right one. When | | | | Ironing is very important in keeping your custom fit |
| you have a custom fit tailored dress shirt designed | | | | tailored dress shirt wrinkle free while wearing, but |
| especially for you, it is even more important that you | | | | you should be careful when ironing your shirts. When |
| take good care of it to make sure that it lasts. | | | | ironing a shirt, make sure that it is slightly damp when |
| Washing Your Custom Fit Tailored Dress Shirt | | | | using a hot iron. Doing this will prevent damage to the |
| When you first get your new custom fit tailored | | | | fabric. Using a steam iron will achieve the same result. |
| dress shirt, make sure you wash it before you wear | | | | Start your ironing with the underside of the collar. |
| it. Sometimes there will still be some various chemical | | | | You want to start from the pointed tips of the collar |
| residue on the material from the manufacturing | | | | and move to the back of the neck area. Afterwards |
| process, washing it will remove these traces. It will | | | | flip your shirt over and do the same for the front |
| also make the material softer and thus more | | | | side of the collar. |
| comfortable to wear. | | | | Next go to the yoke of the shirt. Start at neck of |
| It is best to wash dress shirts by hand. If for some | | | | the shirt and iron towards the center. If you have a |
| reason you are not able to wash your dress shirt by | | | | pleated shirt, iron in the same direction as the fold so |
| hand, then use lukewarm water in the washing | | | | as not to ruin them. |
| machine on a gentle cycle. | | | | Cuffs are to be ironed in a similar manner to the |
| Avoid dry cleaning for dress shirts, especially white | | | | collars. Turn them inside out and start by ironing the |
| ones. The chemicals used in the dry cleaning process | | | | underside, once again starting from the edges and |
| can destroy the fabric in the shirt or even cause it to | | | | moving towards the middle. |
| turn yellow. If you are going to give your dress shirt | | | | The last part of your dress shirt you are going to |
| to a dry cleaner for washing, request that they have | | | | iron is going to be the torso. Starting from the top, |
| it laundered rather than dry cleaned. | | | | work your way carefully from left to right and work |
| When washing dress shirts, make sure to separate | | | | your way down. Going from left panel to right panel |
| colored shirts from white shirts. If possible, also | | | | will keep each part of the shirt equally ironed. Make |
| separate out your colored shirts into light colored | | | | sure to iron in between the buttons and not over |
| shirts and darker colored shirts. This will prevent | | | | them. |
| bleeding from occurring, which can permanently stain | | | | |