Suitsupply offers tailoring and shirting, including a one-piece collar option for its made-to-measure shirt orders. Anahuac's Urban Storm Boutique takes custom orders for personalised shirts and embroidery, alongside its engraved gifts and accessories. Atelier Munro combines made-to-measure and ready-to-wear menswear, with shirts available through its appointment network and online service.
What makes great shirtmakers?
This plate lists 277 shops in 52 countries. London has the most with 24, followed by Paris with 21. Among these shops, 58 describe made-to-order work and 11 sell online, going by their own descriptions.
Ask whether the pattern is cut for you: a made-to-measure shirt starts from a stock block, while a bespoke one starts from your own pattern.
Ask about the cloth: ask for the fibre and the mill that wove the cloth, then handle a swatch before you choose.
Ask how a second order works: once your measurements are kept on file, reordering from abroad may be possible without another fitting.
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The other great Scottish shirting name, founded in Glasgow in 1822. DJA was the preferred fabric of London's West End tailors and supplied the British military for over a century.
Best for Bold-striped and checked Scottish shirting woven by Albini
Drake’s still makes its ties by hand at a dedicated East London factory, using constructions from ancient madder to knitted silk. The shops extend that haberdashery approach into shirts, jackets, knitwear and accessories.
Savile Row institution with royal warrants — bespoke tailoring and shirt program. One-piece collar available on bespoke shirt orders. Established 1771.
Best for Bespoke Savile Row tailoring with royal warrants and one-piece-collar shirts, since 1771.
Jermyn Street shirtmaker founded 1899 by Charles Hilditch and W. Graham Key; rebuilt after Blitz bombing damage and now trading from Jermyn Street. Karl Lagerfeld was a longtime customer said to own over 1,000 of its shirts.
Best for Classic English two-fold cottons.
Hilditch and Key was founded in 1899 by Charles F. Hilditch and W. Graham Key, both previously trained at the Duke Street shirtmaker Harman's. The business opened first on Tottenham Court Road before relocating to Jermyn Street and opening a Paris branch on Rue de Rivoli in 1907. Its original Jermyn Street premises were destroyed during the Blitz; the firm operated from temporary quarters before moving permanently to number 39. The shirtmaker became known among a bespoke-menswear clientele that reportedly included Karl Lagerfeld, said to have owned more than 1,000 of the brand's high-collared shirts. Now past its 125th year, Hilditch and Key continues to operate from Jermyn Street, combining bespoke and made-to-measure shirtmaking with ready-to-wear.
Savile Row tailor at 11 Savile Row, London, tracing to an 1809 breeches-making business; became H. Huntsman & Sons under Henry Huntsman in 1849, earned its first royal warrant in 1886, and moved to Savile Row in 1919.
Best for Legendary tailoring, heritage; iconic Savile Row bespoke shirts
Savile Row's one-button power. Since 1849 the house has cut with hunting-pink heritage in its cloth rooms and a silhouette so distinct the movies borrowed it — Kingsman was built on this shop. One button, high armholes, and the conviction that a jacket should stand at attention even when its wearer doesn't.
A Naples tie workshop opened in the 1920s by Eugenio Calabrese, who owned some 300 ties and became a style reference for friends; closed during WWII, revived after by son Francesco, and now led by fourth-generation Annalisa Calabrese.
Best for Tie heritage polos; Shirts, ties, Neapolitan style
Calabrese traces its origins to the 1920s, when Eugenio Calabrese, a Neapolitan with a personal wardrobe of more than three hundred ties, turned his passion for dressing well into a workshop producing handmade ties in the heart of Naples. He became a style reference for relatives, friends and acquaintances who sought his advice. The workshop closed during the Second World War, and after the war his son, Francesco Calabrese, revived the business. By the 1960s, ties bearing the F. Calabrese label had built a following across Europe and overseas, making the firm one of the longest-running tie manufacturers still operating in Europe. The business passed to the next generation under Gaetano Calabrese, and in 1991 to his daughter Annalisa Calabrese, who today runs the company as its fourth generation. In 2024, marking a century since Eugenio's original workshop, Calabrese 1924 presented a centenary capsule collection at Pitti Uomo 106 in Florence. The company continues to make its ties and sartorial accessories in Naples and sells through boutiques internationally.
The tiny Riviera di Chiaia shop tying the world's most famous seven-fold ties since 1914 — presidents dressed here. Original shop is 20 m². In the 1980s Italian president Francesco Cossiga presented boxes of five Marinella ties to visiting heads of state.
Best for Hand-made Neapolitan ties and small leather gifts.
Eugenio Marinella opened his small shop on Naples' Riviera di Chiaia in 1914 with a specific ambition: to bring English gentleman's style to Naples, better made. The house became famous for one object — the seven-fold-quality tie, cut generously from English-printed silks in small-scale patterns, hand-finished in Naples — and its client list grew to include presidents, royals, and statesmen who order by the dozen. The shop itself is tiny and largely unchanged, opening early in the Neapolitan tradition, with the espresso offered to morning customers part of the ritual. Ties remain the core: the silks are selected in England, made up by hand in Naples, and the house's proportions — slightly wider, unmistakably its own — have resisted every trend. A Marinella tie is Naples' most exportable object: a century of one family doing one thing at the highest level.
Arrive early in the morning as Neapolitans do; the small shop rewards the quiet hour, and the seasonal printed silks sell through quickly.
Charvet is a Paris shirtmaker founded in 1838 and long associated with Place Vendôme, specializing in bespoke and ready-to-wear shirts, ties and accessories. Chanel acquired the house in July 2026, adding a major ownership change to an otherwise unusually continuous tailoring history.
Best for The bespoke shirt pilgrimage of a lifetime.
Charvet has made shirts since 1838 and is generally recognized as the world's oldest French shirtmaker — founded by Christofle Charvet, whose father had charge of Napoleon's wardrobe, and installed for over a century at 28 Place Vendôme, where it remains the square's last shirtmaker. The client book is its own history: Proust wrote about the house, Churchill and Kennedy wore its collars, and the bespoke floors upstairs still cut shirts to individual paper patterns from an inventory of thousands of fabrics, including the one-piece collar for which connoisseurs make the trip. The shirts are made in Saint-Gaultier, France. In July 2026 the house was acquired by Chanel, placing it within a group committed to preserving métiers. This is not e-commerce territory: the point is the appointment, the fabric wall, and a shirt cut for no one else.
Book the bespoke appointment ahead and allow time at the fabric wall — choosing among the thousands of shirtings is the visit's actual luxury.
Rome shirting-and-hosiery shop opened on Via del Corso in December 1870 by Viennese founders; passed to the Bloch family in the early 1900s and now run by fourth-generation owner Andrew Bloch Fiorelli, selling nightwear, shirts and knitwear.
Best for Old-Rome shirts and hosiery.
Schostal opened on Rome's Via del Corso in December 1870, founded by Viennese proprietors as an undergarments, hosiery and shirting shop - its first sign read 'To the City of Vienna' in tribute to its origins. The shop passed to the Bloch family in the early 1900s and survived both the upheaval of the First World War, when its Austrian founders had to leave Italy, and later Mussolini's racial laws. It is now run by fourth-generation owner Andrew Bloch Fiorelli from a location near Campo Marzio, still selling handmade nightwear, dress shirts, knitwear, ties and hosiery in the old-world style that built its reputation.
Founded in 1919 in Bielefeld by Walter Seidensticker, who began making shirts in a room of his parents' house with a 5,000-mark loan he repaid within a year, this family-owned shirtmaker remains headquartered in Bielefeld and now exports to more than 78 countries.
Best for German heritage shirts.
Seidensticker was founded in Bielefeld in 1919 by Walter Seidensticker, who started the business with a 5,000-mark loan and began producing shirts in a small room of his parents' house. Within the first year he had repaid the loan, and turnover had already reached 70,000 marks, an early sign of the company's rapid growth in what was then Germany's textile-manufacturing heartland around Bielefeld. The company has stayed in family ownership and management since its founding, and its long run as a shirt specialist has made it one of the highest-volume shirtmakers in Germany. More than a century after Walter Seidensticker's start, the company still designs and produces men's and women's shirt collections, now exporting to more than 78 countries, while remaining headquartered in its founding city of Bielefeld.
Historic Neapolitan shirtmaker founded in 1874. Siniscalchi survived two world wars, the 1980 earthquake and the decline of local manufacturing to remain a specialist in Neapolitan shirtmaking, preserving the house’s long tailoring continuity.
Best for Since 1874 — survived wars and earthquakes, entirely hand-made bespoke in Naples.
Swedish shirtmaker tracing to August Stenstrom's 1883 Helsingborg retail business, which moved into dedicated shirt production in 1899. A Scandinavian family-owned fashion house, holding a Royal Warrant as purveyor to the Swedish Royal Court.
Best for Crisp Swedish dress shirts.
Stenstroms began as a retail business started by August Stenstrom in Helsingborg in 1883, building a reputation for high-quality shirts among the city's well-dressed clientele. In 1899, the company moved from retail into dedicated shirt manufacturing, building a factory to meet growing demand - the date the company now marks as its founding year and celebrated as a 125th-anniversary milestone in recent company communications. Today Stenstroms is counted among the oldest family-owned fashion businesses in Scandinavia, and holds a Royal Warrant as purveyor to the Royal Court of Sweden. The brand remains known for two-fold cotton shirting made with a level of construction rigor associated with Scandinavian tailoring traditions.
Atelier Munro creates made-to-measure and ready-to-wear menswear, from suits, jackets, trousers and shirts to knitwear and accessories, fitting clients through personal style advisors across an international appointment network and online. The Amsterdam-founded house uses seasonal looks to demonstrate how its made-to-measure tailoring adapts to warmer weather, weddings, business dressing and more relaxed everyday wardrobes without making one season the brand’s permanent identity.
Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists is a Central Australian art centre based at 47 Elder St, Ciccone, Mparntwe (Alice Springs), open 10am-4pm Monday to Friday. Artists produce works on paper, paintings, light shades and t-shirts depicting the life and surrounds of the region.
Town Camp Designs is a 100% Aboriginal owned and run art centre at 16 Fogarty Street, Alice Springs, created by Ewyenper Atwatye, Tangentyere Artists and Yarrenyty Arltere Artists. Artists create designs based on paper and ink, which are applied to merchandise including t-shirts, hoodies, enamel pins, scarves and tote bags, with all profit going to artists' fees and future projects.
Cooperative Coffee Roasters sources beans through direct partnerships with small farmers and roasts them in Asheville, NC. The shop sells single-origin and signature-blend coffee alongside a monthly coffee club subscription, mugs, and shirts.
Best for Single origin coffee and monthly subscriptions
3 Wise Men is a New Zealand menswear brand. It began when Richard Miles and two friends, Hugh Cotterill and Simon Peacocke, saw a gap for quality shirts at a sharp price in 2004. Miles opened the first store near Broadway in Newmarket, Auckland, in 2005 and sold online from the start. Shirts in soft cotton remain the core of the range. Suits and knitwear now sit alongside them in the stores.
Best for Men’s business shirts and casual shirts
3 Wise Men grew out of a conversation in 2004 between three friends in Auckland: Richard Miles with Hugh Cotterill and Simon Peacocke. All three had lived overseas and found that shirt shopping back in New Zealand meant thin choice at high cost. Miles was then general manager of sales at Bendon. He used his contacts in Hong Kong to find a high-end shirtmaker willing to run 25 to 50 pieces per colour and design from its sample room. He then left his job and opened the first 3 Wise Men store near Broadway in Newmarket in 2005. A second store followed just off Lambton Quay in Wellington. The business paired its shops with an online store from the start, a rare thing for New Zealand menswear at the time. Early marketing leaned on a database of 800 friends and quirky emails, plus shirts with local names such as the mint surf shirt. The brand's rules still read plainly: quality gear at affordable prices, simple pricing with no sales, and shirts in soft, rich cotton built to last. The range has widened to suits and knitwear, as well as footwear and accessories, across stores in New Zealand.
Hobson Brown and Billy Nachman founded Criquet in Austin in 2010 to recreate the vintage four-button-placket golf shirts of their prep-school youth; the organic-cotton shirts are made in the USA and Peru, with early backing from actor Luke Wilson.
Best for Vintage polos, organic cotton
Criquet Shirts was founded in Austin, Texas in 2010 by Hobson Brown and Billy Nachman, two New York natives who grew up together during the prep-school fashion era of the 1980s. According to the brand's own account, the impetus was nostalgia for a specific style of vintage golf shirt - Nachman's own well-worn family heirloom, nicknamed 'The Doctor Jack' - that the pair could no longer find on the market and decided to design and produce themselves. The resulting product line is built around 100% organic cotton and a four-button placket, styled as an old-school golf shirt reinterpreted with what the brand calls an Austin sensibility. Actor and Texas native Luke Wilson became an early brand partner. One caveat found in research: a Yelp listing for a specific Criquet Shirts retail address in Austin (1603 S 1st St) is marked closed as of an August 2026 update, though this appears to be one physical storefront rather than evidence the company itself has ceased operating.
A bespoke tailor operating since 1999 with branches in Khaosan-Samsen and Silom, Bangkok, making custom suits, shirts, blazers, tuxedos and overcoats for men and tailored dresses, blouses and skirts for women. It also offers wedding collections and free tailor consultations.
A custom tailor at Sukhumvit Soi 8 in Bangkok operating since 1983, making suits, shirts, trousers and jackets for men and dresses, blouses and skirts for women. Garments are cut from wool, cotton, linen, silk and mixed fabrics after in-person measurement.
Barcelona's storied shirtmaker — famous for the Teba jacket and fine shirts. One-piece collar available on bespoke request; formal shirts without plackets and resort shirts with Lido-style collars.
Kelly Regian's women-owned Ad-Centives on West Defee prints shirts and sources promotional goods — pens, branded apparel, technology accessories and trade-show pieces.
Best for Promotional products, branded apparel and event goods
FR Workwear on Garth keeps fire-retardant shirts, jeans, boots and safety supplies for plant work — Ariat, Carhartt, Cinch, Wrangler and Lapco among the racks.
Best for Local access to flame-resistant workwear and safety-supply retail
Founded in 1950, one of Berlin's last traditional shirtmakers. Everything from cuffs to collars (unfused, with two-ply interlining) and handmade buttonholes is entirely bespoke. One-piece collar available.
German shirtmaker founded in Berlin in 1881 by Heinrich van Laack, inventor of the brand's three-hole button made from Trochacea deep-sea snail shell; production moved to Mönchengladbach in 1953 after Heinrich Hoffmann acquired the company.
Best for German-engineered dress shirts.
Van Laack was founded in Berlin in 1881 by Heinrich van Laack, who set out, by the company's own account, to manufacture the best shirt achievable at the time. One of his lasting contributions was the brand's three-hole button, cut from the shell of the Trochacea deep-sea snail and attached with a button shank designed to add durability beyond a standard flat button; the design was refined further in the 1930s using improved shell material. The Second World War interrupted the Berlin-based operation, and afterward Heinrich Hoffmann acquired the van Laack brand and relocated production to Mönchengladbach in 1953, establishing the city as the company's long-term home and manufacturing base, the same city listed as its production origin today. The company has continued to position itself around precision shirtmaking, marketed under its 'Meisterwerk' line as an emphasis on craftsmanship and fit rather than mass production. Over more than 140 years, the brand has kept its identity tied to two specific, verifiable details: a distinctive natural-shell button and a single, named German manufacturing city that has remained constant since the 1950s.
LBM 1911 makes softly tailored jackets, suits and shirts with a relaxed Bolognese character. Made-to-measure options include specialised collars, while ready-to-wear offers an introduction to the house fit.
Bozeman Reel Company designs, develops, manufactures and tests fly fishing reels in Bozeman, Montana, offering the SC Series, RS Series and extra RS spools alongside hats and t-shirts. The company describes its reels as Made In Montana, Fished Everywhere and built Montana tough.
The South African luxury boutique sells apparel including coats, dresses, jackets, jumpsuits, pants and shirts, and offers Bridal & Bespoke services. Its news section references "Malcolm And Christiaan" and the brand also publishes a "Magalogue."
Tailor Me is a custom tailoring business at 52 Hout Street, Cape Town City Centre, that has spent over a decade crafting premium custom suits, dresses, shirts and accessories for occasions like weddings and matric dances. It offers mobile consultations, coming to clients for measurements.
The Modernist Tailoring, at 54 President Swart Street, Panorama/Plattekloof, Cape Town, makes custom suits, blazers and tuxedos along with shirts in cotton, Egyptian cotton and linen, using fabric brands Vitale Barberis, Scabal, Reda, Drago and Dormeuil. Garments can be made slim-fit, tailored fit or regular fit, and the business also operates in Bloemfontein, Tanzania and Zanzibar.
Zedmen, established in 2005, makes custom menswear, suits and shirts from European fabrics at locations in Rosebank, Johannesburg and Marriott Crystal Towers, Century City, Cape Town. Services include wedding suits and professional wardrobes, tailored under the slogan "Crafted in Europe, Engineered for You."
Best for Custom tailored suits from European fabric
Family madras-cloth house founded 1973 in NYC's Garment District by Ranjit Shah, an emigre from Chennai; long supplied Ralph Lauren, Brooks Brothers, J.Press and others, and still weaves madras on traditional Chennai handlooms today.
Best for Madras shirts
The Original Madras Trading Company was founded in 1973 by Ranjit Shah, who emigrated from Madras (now Chennai) to New York with a suitcase of fabric swatches. Within a few years he had established OMTC on West 38th Street in Manhattan's Garment District and secured supply contracts with major American menswear houses including Ralph Lauren, Brooks Brothers, Gant, J.Crew, J.Press, Tommy Hilfiger, and L.L. Bean. Madras is a cotton fabric hand-woven in checks and plaids, traditionally associated with the city of its origin; it entered American Ivy League style in the 18th century after Elihu Yale, then governor of British Madras, donated bolts of it to the university that took his name. Now run by Shah's grandson, Prasan, the company remains based in the same Garment District headquarters and still produces madras cloth on traditional handlooms in Chennai before finishing it into clothing.
Libertine-Libertine makes relaxed Scandinavian menswear through shirts, trousers, knitwear and outerwear in strong fabrics. Understated design keeps the pieces easy to combine, with texture and cut carrying most of the character.
Centro de Bordados Cuenca, established in 1989 at Frank Tosi Iniguez in Cuenca, Ecuador, is a cooperative of 60 women artisans from rural communities in southern Ecuador who hand-embroider cards, straw hats, t-shirts and custom artworks using natural fibers. Its products have been sold internationally since 1989.
Dar Fashion Store sells kimono dresses, office handbags, unisex t-shirts, chambou jeans, shoes and tops, with delivery anywhere in Tanzania. It can be reached by phone or WhatsApp.
Best for Kimono dresses and everyday fashion basics
Vaish at Rivoli is a bespoke tailoring house at Regal Building, next to PVR Rivoli Cinema, Connaught Place, New Delhi. Founded in 1940 by O.P. Vaish, it is now run by his son Ashok and grandson Sachin, making custom suits and formal menswear only.
Best for Third-generation bespoke suits, shirts, tuxedos, overcoats, and Indian formalwear
Vaish at Rivoli is a bespoke tailoring house in Connaught Place, New Delhi, founded in 1940 by O.P. Vaish. Business listings describe Mr. Vaish beginning his tailoring career serving Connaught Place's clientele during the 1940s, a period when the area also hosted Allied military officers stationed in Delhi during the Second World War. The business has stayed in family hands for three generations and is now run by his son, Ashok Vaish, and grandson, Sachin.
The shop is located at 25, Regal Building, next to the former PVR Rivoli Cinema in Connaught Place, and specializes exclusively in made-to-measure tailoring — sources are consistent that it does not stock ready-made suits.
Florence-based designer who opened his marble-lined shop in 2020. Bold '70s-style colourways and playful fabric combinations. Custom creations with one-piece collar on request.
Spailpín has hand screen-printed Irish-language t-shirts, hoodies and sweatshirts from its Spiddal Craft Village workshop in Connemara since 1979, alongside children's and baby clothing, books, stationery, art prints and instruments like tin whistles and bodhráns. It also offers DTF and sublimation printing for short runs.
Nomen Nescio sells minimalist Finnish workwear-inspired denim, including numbered styles such as the 320 Worker Denim Jacket and 262 Basic Jeans, plus t-shirts and jerseys, under the motto "Wear Values. Not Trends."
The New Playground opened in March 2017 as a concept mall for Vietnamese local brands, gathering more than fifty labels under one roof. The original site occupies a basement on Ly Tu Trong Street in District 1, with vendor stalls divided by wire mesh and lit in neon. Stock leans to streetwear, with graphic shirts, hoodies, denim alongside hats, bags, jewellery. A second branch trades inside Vincom Center Dong Khoi.
Best for Vietnamese streetwear labels in an underground District 1 concept mall
A bespoke tailoring workshop at 127 Tran Hung Dao Street in Hoi An, operating since 1999 and hand-cutting suits, dresses, shirts, trousers and overcoats shipped to over 50 countries. Suits range from $149 to $309 depending on fabric, including wool blends, merino and cashmere.
A made-to-measure tailor at 29 Nguyen Thai Hoc in Hoi An's Old Town, making suits, dresses, blouses, shirts and trousers in linen, cotton, wool and blended fabrics. Turnaround is 1 to 3 days plus one or two fittings.
Ascot Chang has made bespoke shirts in Hong Kong since 1953. Its founder opened a 600 square foot shop on Kimberley Road that year after years of taking orders door to door. The house now cuts shirts and full-canvas suits to measure from Landmark Prince's in Central, with further shops in Shanghai and New York and inside Rustan's in Makati. Trunk shows have run since a first American tour in 1967.
Best for Bespoke shirts and hand-finished suits from a Hong Kong house founded in 1953
Ascot Chang left his hometown of Fenghua at fourteen to apprentice under a master shirtmaker in Shanghai. In 1949 he moved to Hong Kong, where he took orders for custom shirts door to door from Shanghainese businessmen. By 1953 he had opened his first shop, 600 square feet at 34 Kimberley Road. A branch followed at the Peninsula Hotel in 1963. When the 1967 riots hurt sales he took the business on the road, visiting twenty American cities in three months on the firm's first trunk show. His son Tony Chang and brother Johnny Chang led the second generation. They opened the first overseas store in New York in 1986. Today the house cuts bespoke shirts from scratch to a client's measurements. Its bespoke suits take more than forty hours of handwork, including full canvas construction and hand-rolled lapels. The house style is continental, with light shoulder padding and a slim, professional line. Its Hong Kong shops are at Landmark Prince's on Chater Road in Central and at Elements Mall, with the Peninsula shop now closed. Further stores trade in Shanghai and Xiamen, in New York and inside Rustan's in Makati. Trunk shows continue to carry fittings across the United States.
Hong Kong's menswear mecca — stocks 100Hands and other one-piece collar specialists. Also offers its own label shirts with one-piece collar construction.
Bailey's has stocked its Kapahulu Avenue storefront near Waikiki with more than 15,000 aloha shirts since 1980, sorting used, vintage, new and specialty stock alongside Hawaiiana antiques. The shop is a regular source for costume designers and collectors chasing discontinued prints.
Kahala has manufactured aloha shirts in Honolulu since 1936, making it the oldest operating apparel company in Hawaii. The family-owned label still produces most of its collection locally rather than shifting production overseas.
Kamehameha Garment Company dates to 1936 as one of Hawaii's first wholesale apparel manufacturers and an early producer of the aloha shirt. Garments are still cut and sewn in Hawaii, drawing prints from the company's original vintage archives.
Istanbul menswear label that began as a shirt workshop in 1964; joined Turkey's Cebeci Group in 2016 and now runs roughly 31 stores nationwide selling shirts, tailoring and smart-casual pieces.
Best for Menswear, shirts
Dufy traces its start to 1964, when it began producing shirts in a small Istanbul workshop; the brand takes its name from French painter Raoul Dufy. It built its early reputation as a shirt specialist before broadening into fuller menswear - tailoring, knitwear and smart-casual separates - positioning itself between fast fashion and higher-end tailoring houses. In 2016 Dufy joined Turkey's Cebeci Group, which expanded the label's retail footprint to roughly 31 stores across the country, including locations inside Istanbul shopping centers such as Cevahir AVM. The brand sits in a mid-to-premium menswear segment, aimed at structured, wearable office and off-duty pieces rather than trend-driven fast fashion.
Bantu Records is an independent Black-owned vinyl store in Johannesburg specializing in jazz, hip hop/R&B, soul/funk/disco, house/electronic and Afrobeat, with dedicated pages for artists including Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba and Kippie Moeketsi. It also sells branded merchandise such as t-shirts and caps.
Japan's great value shirtmaker — the Sciolto line is its one-piece collar family, from Tokyo Fit flannels to MTM bodies cut for the construction. Established 1993.
Best for Sciolto one-piece collars at honest prices.
DIMAICHA is designed in Copenhagen and ethically handmade in Nepal, with hemp clothing and upcycled sari accessories naturally dyed by Nepalese women in a small village near the Kathmandu valley. Its products include hemp shirts and shorts with coconut buttons and handwoven bags made from upcycled fabric.
Atelier 23 makes bespoke and ready-to-wear suits, shirts, knitwear and outerwear in Portugal, using Albini, Thomas Mason and Leggiuno cottons for its shirts. Its knitwear is spun from Cashwool extra-fine merino by Zegna Baruffa in Biella, Italy, and from SuperGelong, a first-shearing Australian merino lamb yarn.
Founded in Walthamstow in 2016, Blackhorse Lane Ateliers makes selvedge and organic-denim jeans in its own East London factory alongside chore jackets, shirts and related ready-to-wear. Shoppers can try the jeans at Coal Drops Yard, Soho or the Walthamstow factory outlet, and Blackhorse Lane offers free lifetime repairs on its own denim garments.
Budd has made shirts and sold haberdashery from Piccadilly Arcade since Harold Budd opened there in 1910 as the arcade's first tenant. The shop and cutting room stand at 3 Piccadilly Arcade, where bespoke and made to measure shirts are cut alongside a ready to wear range. The Budd collar and the Budd stripe remain house signatures, as do Madder silk ties.
Best for Bespoke and made to measure shirts from a 1910 Piccadilly Arcade shop
Budd has traded as a gentlemen's haberdashery and shirtmaker since 1910. That year Harold Budd opened at 4 Piccadilly Arcade, the first shop in an arcade completed the previous year. He took a ground-floor position to catch gentlemen passing between the clubs of Pall Mall and the establishments of Piccadilly. He built the shop's reputation on bespoke shirts cut and sewn by hand. Harold Budd laid down much of what still defines the house. The Budd collar and the Budd stripe are his, as are the Budd bow and a lasting fondness for Madder silks. By 1919 George Gershwin was naming Budd in a lyric for the Broadway musical La La Lucille. After the bombing of 1941, Budd was the first tenant to move back into the Arcade. The shop and cutting room now stand together at 3 Piccadilly Arcade. Bespoke and made to measure shirts are cut there for clients in London and at trunk shows in the United States. The tiny shop holds ready to wear shirts and nightwear as well as dresswear and a wall of ties. The staff are largely trained from within, and the house says there is little turnover among them.
British shirtmaker founded in 1986 by Nicholas Wheeler as a student mail-order business at Bristol University; its first physical shop opened on Jermyn Street in 1997, and the flagship now sits at number 100.
Best for Value Jermyn Street shirting.
Charles Tyrwhitt was founded in 1986 by Nicholas Wheeler while he was a student at the University of Bristol. Increasingly critical of how his fellow students dressed, Wheeler decided he could make a better shirt himself, and spent around £300 on five thousand mail-order leaflets and a basic Amstrad word processor to get the business started. The company's name is drawn from Wheeler's own middle names — Charles Tyrwhitt — chosen partly as a nod to a family ancestor, Sir Hercules Tyrwhitt, said to have been killed on a bridge in Northumbria in 1067. The mail-order shirt business grew steadily through the 1990s before opening its first physical shop on Jermyn Street in 1997, placing it on a street with a long-standing association with British shirtmaking. The company's flagship store now sits at 100 Jermyn Street, and its shirts are made in its own factories using European fabrics, a manufacturing claim the company has maintained as it expanded into suits, ties and other menswear.
Jake Wigham's brainchild — handmade in Soho, boxy mid-century-inspired Oxford button-downs. Also offers one-piece collar shirts made-to-order with a lead time of two to four weeks.
Best for Boxy mid-century Oxford button-downs and one-piece collars
Founded by Luke Walker, former menswear designer at Lanvin and Dunhill. The signature 'Come-Up-To-The-Studio' shirt features an unlined point collar; one-piece collar available on custom request.
Eton's outfitter since 1865 — flamboyant gowns, silk dressing robes, and proper shirts. Famed too for embroidered velvet slippers and silk dressing gowns.
Savile Row institution with a ready-to-wear one-piece collar shirt program — including the Blue Stripe Linen one-piece collar shirt. Ready-to-wear and bespoke options.
The label works from a century-old workshop on Boundary Street, where design and development remain compactly organised. Its detailed journal explains garment construction, cloth choices and pattern changes rather than presenting only seasonal lookbooks.
London shirtmaker founded in 1898 by Thomas Mayes Lewin and Geoffrey James Lewin, moved to Jermyn Street in 1903; went into administration twice (2020, 2022) before being rescued and continuing to trade online.
Best for City-of-London staples.
T.M. Lewin was founded in 1898 when Thomas Mayes Lewin, in partnership with Geoffrey James Lewin, opened a shop on Panton Street in London; the business relocated to Jermyn Street in 1903, then the center of English shirtmaking, and Thomas Mayes is credited with pioneering the pre-styled 'coat shirt.' The company built its own manufacturing facility in Southend in 1987, though it later moved toward sourcing fabric globally. The brand has had an unstable recent history: it went into administration in June 2020, closing all 66 UK stores and laying off around 700 staff, was rescued, then went into administration again in 2022 before being bought out a second time by its main lender, Petra Group.
Turnbull & Asser's flagship occupies 71–72 Jermyn Street in London's St James's, where the house has traded since 1903. The shop carries classic and seasonal clothing alongside shirts and accessories, with original fittings still part of the interior. Customers seeking bespoke shirts should distinguish this flagship from the separate Bury Street service described by the house.
Best for Shirts and menswear on Jermyn Street
Turnbull & Asser's Jermyn Street flagship presents the house through shirts and the clothes worn with them. The shop has occupied 71–72 Jermyn Street since 1903, and original fittings remain part of the interior. That date belongs to the move into this building, rather than to the beginning of the company. The current collection brings classic pieces together with seasonal clothing and accessories, allowing a visit to extend beyond a single shirt.
The house describes shirt and tie production through its Gloucester and Sidcup factories and the work of their cutters and sewers. That account gives a more precise sense of manufacture than treating everything on the shop floor as British-made. It also separates production from the services offered at each London address. The Jermyn Street shop is the flagship for viewing the collection, while the bespoke shirt service described by the house operates on Bury Street. Decide which kind of purchase you have in mind before arranging a visit, particularly if the aim is to commission rather than buy ready-to-wear.
Rogue Territory is LA’s stantons and supply jackets — Karl Thoennessen’s workwear of indie-denim benchmark status. The range centers on shirts; Field shirts, Japanese fabrics, with production associated with USA.
Madrid shirt house since 1956 — Spanish-crafted dress shirts refined through precision and traditional technique.
Best for Spanish dress shirts.
Mirto was founded in 1956 by Ricardo Fragueas Álvaro, who recognized a gap in the Spanish market for varied, high-quality dress shirt offerings and established the brand to fill that void. For nearly seven decades, Mirto has maintained its position as a leading Spanish shirtmaker, building reputation on top designs and meticulous craftsmanship. Each shirt undergoes over 80 distinct processes, combining Spanish heritage sensibility with contemporary design. The brand sources the finest available fabrics and maintains control over every step of construction, ensuring exceptional quality, precision fit, and timeless style. Today, Mirto serves as an internationally recognized Spanish fashion brand for both men and women, though the core heritage remains rooted in shirting expertise. The label's longevity reflects consistency rather than trend-chasing: the same foundational commitment to quality that defined 1956 production continues to guide 2026 design.
BarongTagalog.com runs an online direct online storefront of ready-made and custom barong tagalog shirts, from traditional jusi and jusilin weaves to monochromatic modern cuts. Backed by more than fifteen years of garment manufacturing, it ships single pieces and bulk orders to buyers in the Philippines and abroad.
Best for Barong Tagalog, Filipino formalwear, embroidered garments
Hanout Boutique sells pret-a-porter pieces including dresses, kimonos, tops, shirts and bottoms in linen, cotton and silk, such as the Alexia Carre Short Dress and the Nadia Ourika Kimono. It ships internationally via DHL Express.
Lalla is a brand handmade in Morocco with stores at Lalla Gueliz and Lalla Sidi in Marrakech, open 11am to 8pm according to its Instagram bio. Its content highlights include collections referencing New York, Sidi Ghanem and vintage shirts.
Three Fenêtres carries outside makers but also draws its own Marseille illustrations for organic-cotton totes and T-shirts. City references run from the Vieux-Port and Notre-Dame de la Garde to the Calanques.
Best for Unique vintage clothing, handicrafts, and exquisite local artistry
Founded in 2002, MyCubanStore is an online specialist in authentic guayaberas, handmade in a small Mexican workshop using traditional methods. The shop carries guayaberas, Cuban shirts and Panama hats for men, women and children.
Best for Guayaberas, Cuban shirts and Panama hats for men, women and children
Known as the 'Guayabera Palace,' this Miami family shop has sold classic and modern guayaberas for over forty years. Its online store carries guayaberas, linen wear, Panama hats and Cuban jewelry for the whole family.
Best for Classic and modern guayaberas, linen wear, Panama hats, and Cuban jewelry
Ramón Puig, the 'King of Guayaberas,' offers finely made guayaberas in the traditional Cuban style from his Miami house. The online shop sells long- and short-sleeve guayaberas for men and women.
Caliban makes refined shirts with careful construction, modern proportions and a broad fabric selection. The Milan shop is relevant for comparing collars, fits and cloth rather than seeking overt branding.
Best for Refined Milanese shirts — Albini and Thomas Mason fabrics, hand-sewn buttonholes, modern sensibility.
Jean Jacques Monte-Carlo, at 27 avenue de la Costa in Monaco, carries menswear from Kiton, Canali, Sartorio, Rota and John Lobb alongside its own line, and offers custom tailoring for suits, shirts and jackets.
Pano Boutique Monaco, at 1 Ruelle Sainte-Barbe in Monaco-Ville, sells eco-responsible apparel and accessories for men and women including t-shirts, polos, customizable Mix & Match bracelets, caps and sunglasses.
Mutma is a Montevideo clothing shop selling shoes, garments and accessories, including denim, dresses, shirts, coats, children's clothes and a vintage-picks section. Its site describes the line as colourful and bold, and aimed at everyday wear with comfort and a degree of polish.
Best for Shoes, dresses, denim and accessories from Montevideo
Kali Works sells apparel including tees, cardigans, hoodies and artwork organized into series such as the Malkia Series, Bambatha Series and Mask Series, with t-shirts priced at $50 CAD and cardigans at $300 CAD. The brand has been featured in British GQ and Complex magazine.
Kanyoko Boutique carries kitenge fabrics, dresses, shirt dresses and men's shirts. It also stocks African products including picnic blankets and mkeka mats.
Keswick Bookshop sells Bibles in English, Swahili, Luo, Kisii and Maasai, Christian books, devotionals, church supplies such as clerical shirts and communion trays, journals, planners and gift items, with branches at CBD Bruce House, Sarit Centre and Kilimani in Nairobi and Mombasa Mall in Mwembe Tayari. It offers same-day delivery within Nairobi and worldwide shipping.
Neapolitan shirtmaker creating hand-sewn, made-to-measure shirts at its appointment-led Viale Antonio Gramsci atelier and through online consultation.
Best for Fully hand-sewn Neapolitan shirts.
Camiceria Matuozzo works from Viale Antonio Gramsci 26, in Chiaia, and makes one thing. Shirts, for men, cut and finished by hand to the individual measurement, ordered at the atelier or through remote consultation, with periodic trunk shows away from Naples. The house dates its work to 1970 and still trades under the family name as a partnership. Naples supports an unusual concentration of shirtmakers, and what separates one from another is not design but the proportion of the garment worked by hand rather than by machine — collar, shoulder, armhole, side seams, buttonholes — a distinction invisible in a photograph and legible mainly to people already inside the trade. A visitor would not find this without being told. Viale Gramsci is a residential avenue set back from the shopping streets, the atelier runs on appointments rather than passing footfall, and the product gives nothing away from the pavement, a hand-sewn shirt being, at a glance, a shirt. The house has no shopfront logic to catch anyone. It works from a client list and from the small international audience that follows Neapolitan shirtmaking closely enough to know which door to knock on.
Maurizio Piccirillo makes hand-finished shirts using techniques he describes as part of the Naples tailoring tradition. His account begins with fabric selection and follows the detailed handwork used to construct a shirt. He grew up in a family of tailors in the historic centre of Naples.
Best for Hand-finished shirts in the Naples tailoring tradition
Camiceria Maurizio Piccirillo is run by Maurizio Piccirillo, who grew up in Naples' historic center in a family of tailors and entered the trade at a young age, eventually taking responsibility for factory production within the local shirtmaking sector before establishing his own house under his name. His wife, Ilaria, a skilled embroiderer, has worked alongside him in the company's production for more than twenty years, handling the decorative hand-embroidery — monograms, buttonholes and finishing details — associated with Neapolitan shirtmaking. The workshop follows the construction conventions of the city's tailoring tradition: shirts are built from selected fabrics and sewn largely by hand, with attention to the shoulder seam, collar construction and fit associated with Naples' shirtmaking houses, a category that also includes better-known names such as Salvatore Piccolo and Camiceria Piccolo, cited alongside Piccirillo as part of the same local craft lineage.
Errico Formicola’s shirtmaking is visible in details such as soft collars, hand-finished elements and made-to-measure options. The wider range extends that tailoring approach into jackets, knitwear, trousers and accessories.
Best for Neapolitan shirts direct from the source.
Fourth-generation Neapolitan shirtmaker with a dedicated one-piece collar collection — the antique construction cut from a single piece, collar rolling upright on its own.
Avino Laboratorio Napoletano, a Naples shirtmaking atelier founded in 2001 by Francesco Avino - trained under Cesare Attolini - known for entirely handmade shirts finished with traditional 8-point stitching.
Best for Shirts, Artisan
Avino Laboratorio Napoletano is a Neapolitan shirtmaking house founded in 2001 by Francesco Avino, who began his career working with Cesare Attolini, one of the founding names of modern Neapolitan tailoring, before establishing his own atelier. The brand is built around fully handmade construction and finishing, particularly associated with the traditional Neapolitan '8-point' hand-stitched shirt collar and cuff technique. Avino Laboratorio Napoletano shirts are sold through the brand's own e-commerce site and stocked by international menswear retailers, including L.C. VIA. and the Paris multi-brand shop L'officine Paris.
Luca Avitabile makes shirts by hand in an atelier inside Palazzo Berio on Via Toledo in Naples, opposite the Galleria Umberto. Bespoke work starts with a muslin pattern and a fitting, with fabrics from Carlo Riva and Alumo. His Friday polo, cut long with shirt tails to sit under tailoring, joined the range in 2020. Ready-to-wear and made-to-order pieces are sold online, and trunk shows take the atelier abroad.
Best for The definitive one-piece collar polo.
Luca Avitabile cuts shirts in an atelier on the first floor of Palazzo Berio on Via Toledo in Naples, opposite the Galleria Umberto. Clients climb a stone stairwell and ring the bell before entering a terrazzo-floored fitting room. Monocle described the process in its February 2024 issue. After coffee and conversation Avitabile cuts a pattern in plain muslin and follows it with a fitting, which he regards as the delicate part of the process. Fabric choices run from striped Carlo Riva twill to Alumo Swiss cotton and Japanese denim, with buttons in Australian or Tahitian mother-of-pearl. The Friday polo, sewn from lightweight piqué and cut long with shirt tails so it can be tucked under tailoring, entered the range in 2020 as ready-to-wear and is now ordered custom as often as not. Clients who come for a classic shirt usually add a made-to-measure overshirt or polo, he told the magazine. A made-to-order overshirt service lets customers pick fabric and details. Ready-to-wear shirts and knitwear are sold online, and trunk shows and virtual meetings extend the atelier beyond Naples. Enquiries in Japanese are welcome, and appointments at the atelier are booked by email.
Antonio Panico’s bespoke sartoria — Rubinacci’s master cutter for twenty years before opening his own ateliers (Naples 1991, Via Condotti Rome 1996); jackets so comfortable you never want to take them off.
Best for Bespoke polos, handmade; Bespoke shirts, Neapolitan; Bespoke Suits, Neapolitan
Remo Manno Sartoriale Partenopeo has spent over 35 years making custom shirts and suits in the Vomero district of Naples using high quality fabrics. The tailor holds an Eccellenze Italiane certificate and has dressed tennis players Fognini, Bolelli and Berrettini as well as footballer Victor Osimhen.
Trained by his mother Maria Cavagnoli, who made bespoke shirts from their home in Naples' Piazza Mercato district, Salvatore Piccolo worked as a shirt-factory warehouseman from age fifteen before opening a made-to-measure shirt shop with her the following year, later adding jackets, ties and foulards.
Best for Shirts, Accessories
Salvatore Piccolo learned shirtmaking from his mother, Maria Cavagnoli, who had begun working in a family shirtmaking workshop at age nine and later made bespoke shirts from their home in Naples' Piazza Mercato district. Salvatore started work at fifteen as a warehouseman for a shirt factory, absorbing the trade from the production side before, at sixteen, opening a small made-to-measure shirt shop together with his mother. Working client by client, he learned the cutting and construction techniques that define Neapolitan shirtmaking — a soft, unlined, hand-finished collar and a closer body than the classic English cut — and built a bespoke clientele that grew to several hundred customers worldwide. As demand increased, the original small shop expanded into a larger operation, and the label extended beyond bespoke shirts into ready-made shirts, jackets, ties and foulards, blending English, American and Italian tailoring references with techniques rooted in Neapolitan artisan shirtmaking.
Founded by Gian Piero, Santoli Napoli is a 100% Italian linen apparel brand whose shirts, drawstring trousers and shorts are made in Napoli. The direct-to-consumer label builds a focused warm-weather wardrobe around Italian-woven linen, Neapolitan cutting and matching separates, giving shoppers a compact Naples-made alternative to a broader full-line fashion house.
Sartoria Allocca makes made-to-measure shirts in Naples using poplin, twill and linen from superior-quality fabrics and fine yarns. The business is registered as SC Confezioni SRL.
Sartoria Formosa has cut bespoke clothes in Naples since 1965, when Mario Formosa founded the house now run by Gennaro Formosa. The atelier at Vico Cavallerizza a Chiaia 37 makes suits, overcoats, shirts and trousers to measure by appointment. Its signatures are the hand-sewn buttonhole and the soft Neapolitan sleeve. A Luxury Casual line adds denim shirts and cashmere knitwear, jeans or cloth trousers.
Best for Bespoke collar roll polos; Bespoke shirts, Neapolitan tailoring; Bespoke Suits
Sartoria Formosa marked sixty years of tailoring in Napoli in 2025. The house describes that span as a story made of hands and thread and measure. Mario Formosa founded it in 1965, and his son Gennaro Formosa carries it today. He receives clients personally at the atelier in Vico Cavallerizza a Chiaia. The house sets out its craft in a handful of details. The buttonhole is sewn by hand to a millimetre. The sleeve is set soft and natural so that the shoulder moves freely, and the tailors treat that as a matter of comfort as much as tradition. Lapels come in many cuts rather than one, chosen for proportion and character. The trousers are built by hand to clean lines. The stated aim is a suit that follows the body rather than reshaping it. Appointments are booked for a bespoke suit, a tailored overcoat or a made-to-measure shirt. Each visit begins with a consultation. Alongside the bespoke work the house runs a Luxury Casual line of denim shirts and cashmere knitwear, jeans or cloth trousers. These are cut with the same precision for everyday wear. The anniversary programme, in the words of the house, looks to a future of elegance rather than only to the past, and the family treats the sixtieth year as a starting point for the next generation of the atelier.
NOLA Couture turns New Orleans motifs into bow ties, shirts, accessories and gifts. Local references make the range suitable for souvenirs that feel more specific than generic city-logo merchandise.
Best for New Orleans-inspired bow ties, accessories, and apparel celebrating local culture
American custom shirtmaker — online configurator with one-piece collar as a standard option. Made-to-measure and custom fits.
Best for American custom one-piece collar shirts
Blank Label was founded in Boston in 2008 by Danny Wong, Zeeshan Sheikh and Fan Bi, then a Babson College student who left school in 2009 to build the company full time. It launched as an online-only custom-shirt maker, letting customers configure fit, fabric and details, collar style, plackets, monograms, through a web-based tool rather than a traditional made-to-measure appointment. The founders initially pitched the brand at a young, style-forward customer, but usage data showed their actual buyers skewed toward white-collar professionals in their late thirties, and the company repositioned around that clientele.
To address the limits of a purely digital fitting process, Blank Label opened its first physical "pattern room" in Boston in 2013, giving customers an in-person fitting that fed back into their saved online pattern for future orders. The company later expanded from shirts into custom suits and other made-to-order menswear, continuing to operate primarily through its online configurator backed by physical fitting locations.
In January 2024, Blank Label's run as an independent brand ended: it merged with Black Lapel and Ratio Clothing, folding into the Black Lapel brand as part of a stated combination of "over 50 years of collective expertise" in custom clothing. Former Blank Label customer accounts were migrated to Black Lapel's platform.
Bonobos sells menswear through fit-focused trousers, shirts, suits and casual clothing, supported by showroom appointments. Guideshops emphasise trying sizes and ordering rather than carrying every item for immediate take-away.
Corridor is the independent New York label Dan Snyder started in 2013 while sewing in the Garment District. It makes original textiles and clothing shaped by folk Americana, produced with family-run workshops, and covers shirts, knitwear, outerwear, footwear. Four shops trade in New York, including 245 Elizabeth Street in Nolita, with three more in Los Angeles. Design stays in Brooklyn, where the brand is based.
Best for Original textiles, shirts and knitwear designed in Brooklyn
Corridor began in 2013, when Dan Snyder was sewing in the Garment District and working out of a walk-up apartment in the East Village. The name comes from the Northeast Corridor bus line he rode at the time. The label describes itself as Brooklyn based and independent, drawing on folk Americana, and it makes original textiles rather than buying finished cloth. Production runs through family-run workshops in several countries, which the brand names as a deliberate choice rather than a sourcing note. The collection covers shirts, knitwear, outerwear, sweats, trousers, footwear. Accessories and a small homeware line sit alongside. Corridor also keeps a bookshelf section, which reads as an extension of the same interests in art and music. Seven shops are listed. Four sit in New York, at 245 Elizabeth Street in Nolita, 165 Dekalb Avenue in Fort Greene, 322 Bleecker Street in the West Village and 145 Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg. Three more are in Los Angeles, on North Larchmont Boulevard, California Avenue in Venice and Echo Park Avenue. Appointments can be booked at each address, and the brand still lists its design work as happening in Brooklyn.
Faherty is a clothing brand founded by twin brothers Mike and Alex Faherty, whose beach upbringing informs its casual style. The range includes shirts and knitwear alongside trousers and dresses, with accessories available for women and men. Its website also describes collaborations with Native designers, which should be distinguished from the wider clothing collection.
Best for Casual clothing and beach-influenced everyday layers
Faherty is a family-owned clothing brand established in 2013. Its official story presents the business through casual clothing for adults and children, supported by swim and accessories plus a home-goods line. Several programmes give the assortment a wider structure. Native Designed identifies collaborations with Native artists, while Second Wave Resale keeps existing Faherty pieces in circulation. The company also maintains partnership and sustainability alongside social-impact sections that sit beside its product catalogue. Clothing is organized around recurring wardrobe categories such as shirts and knitwear as well as trousers. Dresses and outerwear complete the wardrobe. Named groups including the Western Collection, Rugged Ivy Collection and Reserve Collection provide a more specific design direction within that everyday framework. Stretch Terry and movement-oriented shirts emphasize comfort and repeated wear rather than formal novelty. These facts make the brand's position legible: it builds a broad casual wardrobe, then uses partnerships and resale to add authorship and a second life to selected pieces. The family ownership and 2013 starting point provide the business context, while the named collections and programmes show how Faherty differentiates its clothing from a generic multi-category apparel offer.
Ivy League clothier founded in 1902 near Yale's campus by Jacobi Press, credited with popularizing the natural-shoulder 'sack suit' and Shaggy Dog shetland sweater. NYC flagship sits by the Yale Club at 51 E 44th St; second shop at 501 Madison Ave.
Best for True Ivy oxford shirts.
J. Press was founded in 1902 in New Haven, Connecticut, by Jacobi Press, a Latvian immigrant who partnered with local tailor Herman Goldbaum to open a shop serving Yale's undergraduates. The company became closely associated with the 'Ivy League look' - natural-shoulder, undarted sack suits, Harris Tweed jackets, flap-pocket oxford shirts, and reversible balmacaan coats. By the 1920s the shop's reputation extended to cultural figures including Cary Grant and Duke Ellington. J. Press also built a second life in Japan: its clothing appeared in the 1965 photo book 'Take Ivy,' fueling a decades-long 'Ametora' fashion obsession there. In New York, the brand's flagship operates at 51 East 44th Street, across from Grand Central Terminal, with a second shop at 501 Madison Avenue.
Proper Cloth covers shirts, casual trousers and tailoring under its fit guarantee. If the first result is wrong, customers can request a free remake in another size, fabric or style rather than settle for alterations alone.
Wythe makes menswear drawing on American sportswear, including oxford shirts and denim shirts with pearl-snap fastenings. Peter Middleton launched the label before its first physical shop opened on Orchard Street in 2023. Some overcoats use Donegal tweed and are made in New York, a product-specific statement rather than a collection-wide origin.
Best for Americana-inspired shirts and outerwear in New York
Wythe began with Peter Middleton's interest in familiar American garments, including oxford shirts and denim pearl snaps. The label's account describes looking back at older examples of those clothes while developing its own versions. Shirts and sweatshirts therefore provide a practical starting point for understanding the range beyond its general Americana references.
The business first traded online before opening a physical shop at 59 Orchard Street in 2023. That opening gave the label a New York retail address where its own collection could be presented together. Earlier reporting on the company concerns its launch period and the difficulties of building the business during that time.
Outerwear adds another strand to the collection, including overcoats made in New York's Garment District from custom Donegal tweeds. The weaving and garment-making locations describe different stages of production, rather than competing claims about one place. They also apply to those coats, not automatically to every shirt or accessory sold by the brand. A purchase should therefore be considered at the level of the particular garment and its stated construction.
Founded in Nice in 1950 by master tailor Jean Goldberg on rue Paradis, dressing Cannes Film Festival stars of the era. His son Albert took over in 1961 and, inspired by a visit to Brooks Brothers in New York, launched the ready-to-wear line renamed Façonnable.
Best for Riviera-blue shirts and blazers.
Façonnable traces back to a single tailoring shop opened on rue Paradis in Nice in 1950 by Jean Goldberg, a master tailor who built a reputation dressing film stars in bespoke tuxedos and gowns for the Cannes Film Festival and the wider Riviera social season, including clients such as Tony Curtis and Cary Grant. The business stayed a made-to-measure operation through the 1950s. In 1961 Goldberg retired and handed the workshop to his son, Albert Goldberg, who took the label in a new direction after a research trip to Brooks Brothers in New York. Rather than continuing purely bespoke work, Albert developed a ready-to-wear collection for men and renamed the business Façonnable, a play on the French verb 'façonner' — to shape or fashion. The rebrand captured the shift from single-client tailoring to a wearable, repeatable version of the same Riviera style: tailored but relaxed, built around the color and ease associated with the French Mediterranean coast. The Nice origin remains central to the brand's identity, with the label continuing to market itself around the phrase 'French Riviera since 1950.'
Paris shirt-only label founded in 2017 by hotelier Charles Beigbeder and designer Cécile Faucheur, based in the Hôtel Bourrienne, a 1790s building in the 10th arrondissement. Shirts are made in France from organic Californian and Egyptian poplin and Normandy linen.
Best for Architectural French shirts.
Bourrienne Paris X was founded in 2017 by Charles Beigbeder, an investor involved in restoring the Hôtel Bourrienne — a Directory-period building constructed in the late 1790s in Paris's 10th arrondissement — and designer Cécile Faucheur. The label sells a single category of product: men's and women's white shirts, offered in a limited range of around eight styles rather than a broad seasonal collection. Its designs draw on the wardrobe of the Incroyables, the flamboyantly dressed young men of Directory-era Paris who were known to frequent the Hôtel Bourrienne itself, translating details such as officer and French collars, pleated or minimalist bibs, and hand-prepared gathered sleeves into contemporary shirtmaking. Shirts are cut in two fits — an adjusted fit between straight and fitted, and a looser fit with a softer, longer shoulder line — and are made in France from organic Californian and Egyptian two-ply poplin cottons and Normandy linens. The brand operates from a street-level space built into the Hôtel Bourrienne, tying its retail presence directly to the historic building that gave it its name. Faucheur has compared the white shirt's role in the brand's wardrobe to that of a foundational, versatile piece rather than a seasonal trend item.
Café Coton organises menswear around shirts, with collar, cuff, fit and fabric choices visible across formal and casual lines. Polos, knitwear, ties and accessories extend the same coordinated wardrobe approach.
Best for Dress shirts, polos, and ties for easy business-casual menswear
Coton Doux specialises in men’s shirts, from bold prints to plain business styles, plus ties and bow ties. The range works well for expressive under-jacket dressing without requiring a fully patterned outfit.
Best for Bold printed shirts, classic shirts, ties, and bow ties from this Paris shirtmaker
Cotton Society offers made-to-measure shirts and tailoring, with a Paris boutique for discussing fabric and fit. Its range extends to jackets and trousers, available through appointments in the boutique or at trunk shows. A collaboration with Parisian Gentleman concerns blazer designs, rather than establishing one manufacturing origin for the whole collection.
Best for Made-to-measure shirts and tailoring in Paris
Drapeau Noir makes refined casual menswear through shirts, knitwear, trousers and workwear-influenced jackets. Restrained colours and fabrics make the pieces easy to combine without relying on visible branding.
Best for Restrained menswear, knitwear and workwear-influenced jackets.
Alain Figaret launched his shirtmaking house in 1968, opening a Biarritz boutique first; the brand's dedicated shirt-only shop opened on Rue de la Paix in Paris in 1976 and remains its flagship, still vertically integrated from sourcing to retail.
Best for The Parisian everyday fine shirt.
Figaret Paris was founded by Alain Figaret in 1968. Its first boutique opened in Biarritz, and in 1970 the brand took a shop on Rue de Longchamp in Paris under the name Princeton. The first store devoted entirely to Figaret-branded shirts opened in 1976 on Rue de la Paix, and that address remains the brand's flagship today. In 1992 Fabrice Figaret joined the family business and pushed to consolidate and expand distribution, both within France and internationally. The company has stayed vertically integrated - controlling sourcing, production and its own retail network rather than outsourcing manufacturing, which is unusual among shirt specialists of its size.
Forte_forte is an Italian womenswear label selling dresses, shirts, knitwear, trousers, coats, beachwear, shoes, bags, belts and jewelry. Its Paris presence sits within the label’s wider boutique network, while the official shop keeps the focus on the house’s own clothing and accessories rather than generic department-store categories.
Best for Women’s dresses, knitwear, shoes, bags, jewelry, and accessories
American-vintage-inspired shirt and casualwear label created by Yves Chareton in 1979 New York before relocating to Paris. Reworks 1950s Oxford and chambray shirting with a French cut; worn by Bruce Springsteen and Eric Clapton.
Best for Preppy polos, Parisian; Jersey soft polos; Paul preppy polos; Polos; Hunting, country
Hartford was created by Yves Chareton in 1979, starting in New York City, where Chareton had just finished business studies. The idea for the brand came out of a nightclub conversation with an old friend about finding real vintage 1950s-style American shirts. A chance encounter with a New York fabric dealer who sold him old stock of Oxford and chambray cloth gave Chareton the raw material for the first Hartford shirts. The studio later relocated to Paris, where the brand took its current commercial shape. Hartford's identity blends laid-back West Coast American style with European tailoring sensibility, winning a cult following including musicians Bruce Springsteen and Eric Clapton as noted fans.
Hast is a menswear brand offering formal and casual shirts alongside tailoring and more relaxed everyday clothing. Established in 2012, it describes a wardrobe built from natural or recycled materials, with production divided among specialist workshops. Its shirts are made in Lithuania, while other garments come from different locations rather than one shared manufacturing origin.
Best for Formal and casual shirts with clearly described workshop origins
Hast's collection places formal and casual shirts alongside a broader wardrobe that extends from trousers to knitwear and outerwear. The brand dates its beginnings to 2012 and describes using natural or recycled materials across its clothing. Its craftsmanship page identifies workshops by product type, making manufacturing origin more specific than the brand's Paris identity.
Shirts are made by a Lithuanian workshop specialising in woven fabrics, while a Portuguese partner produces chinos and jeans. Other Portuguese workshops handle knitwear or jersey garments, including polo shirts and T-shirts. Ties come from an Italian workshop, and formal belts are made by hand in Spain. These are separate production relationships rather than a claim that everything is made in France.
Work jackets provide another distinction: their manufacturer is a French family business with a workshop in Tunisia. Shoppers comparing pieces can therefore use the product category to understand which workshop account applies. The collection spans tailored clothing and less formal styles, so a shirt purchase need not mean choosing a complete suit. Hast's boutique directory provides the relevant shop locations separately from this account of how its clothes are made.
La Seine & Moi is a Paris label for colourful faux-fur coats and other outerwear. Its wider ready-to-wear selection includes knitwear, dresses, jackets and shirts, but the expressive coats remain the clearest reason to look.
Best for Colourful faux-fur coats and polished Paris outerwear.
Paris shirt label launched in 2016 by Marie Marot, focused exclusively on shirts with a minimalist, slightly oversized fit inspired by style icons like Carolyn Bessette and Lauren Hutton. Has collaborated with J.Crew, Marc Jacobs and Saint James.
Best for Crisp striped shirts and tailored French basics from a Paris shirtmaker.
Marie Marot founded her eponymous Paris label in 2016, building the brand around a single garment: the shirt. Before fashion, she worked in cinema. The brand's aesthetic draws on a minimalist, slightly oversized silhouette, referencing style icons such as Carolyn Bessette, Lauren Hutton and Charlotte Rampling. The label has expanded through collaborations, including with J.Crew, and has drawn interest from Marc Jacobs and Saint James.
Paris menswear label founded around 2018 by couple Bertille and Thomas Mouty, gaining traction from 2020; known for embroidered shirting and streetwear-meets-tailoring pieces. Boutique and click-and-collect at 26 rue Gustave Courbet, Paris 16th arrondissement.
Best for Playful embroidered motifs on impeccable poplin shirting from Paris
Mouty is a Paris menswear brand built around the partnership of Bertille and Thomas Mouty, who together design collections spanning jackets, embroidered shirts, cargo pants, t-shirts and accessories. Sources place the label's founding around 2018, gaining real market traction from 2020. Mouty's positioning sits at the boundary of streetwear and traditional tailoring, pairing embroidery, lace and pastel tones with looser, sport-influenced silhouettes. The brand's real, currently active website is mouty-paris.com, listing free click-and-collect from a boutique at 26 rue Gustave Courbet in Paris's 16th arrondissement.