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Ledbury, the Better-Tailored Men's Shirt

A couple of Oxford MBAs recently founded Ledbury, a new men's shirt brand dedicated to better tailoring at the intersection of Savile Row and Ivy Style. Paul Trible and Paul Watson (above) graduated with Oxford MBAs at the height of the economic crisis, literally the day before the Lehman Bros. collapse, and decided to turn their careers from finance to fine fabric. Taking advantage of their proximity to Jermyn Street, London's traditional home of fine haberdashery, the pair learned the art of English shirt-making from one of the street's top craftsman and then fused in their hometown Southern U.S. style to create a brand based in Virginia focusing on fit, quality and style.

"When I was living in London, I would come back to the States and have difficulty finding high quality shirts that provided a tailored look," the Virginia-born Trible explains. "The big name menswear retailers made formless, boxy clothes, while luxury brands charged exorbitant prices. It seemed like there was a real need for an American shirtmaker that offered European quality, English fit and American style, all at an attainable price. We want Ledbury shirts to fit better, feel better and last longer than anything else in your closet." The Classicist recently featured a natty Ledbury chambray creation in a column on seasonal style starring the Mercedes-Benz G-Class.

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Luxist Giveaway: Shirts My Way Gift Certificate

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel, Men's Style

Our last few giveaways focused on things for women (perfume, jewelry etc.) but today's giveaway is for the men. It's fall and time to bid farewell to shorts and short sleeves and suit up. But that doesn't mean you have to opt for the basic off-the-rack experience. Shirts My Way is a service that deals only in custom dress shirts. The website allows you to customize a variety of features to create the perfect look for your custom dress shirt. Every detail, from the collar style to the cuff fabric to the thread color, can be selected so that the shirt reflects your individual tastes. It's not just any shirt, it's your shirt. And once you determine exactly what you like and save it to your profile it's easy to order similar shirts. The shirts are made with high thread count fabrics made from long staple quality cotton and stitched together by master tailors, hand-sewn and reinforced with single needle stitching along the seams for extended durability. You really want to fall in love? Two words: free shipping. That's right, they provide free standard shipping worldwide without any minimum requirements getting your custom dress shirt to you in within nine working days. Prices start at $75.

The founders of Michael Yang and Peter Crawfurd deem themselves "dress shirt enthusiasts." Their quest to create the ideal shirt buying platform brain in 2008. ShirtsMyWay officially launched its website in February 2009 and after a year of rapid growth launched an upgrade the following year.

Enough talk, let's get to the giveaway, ShirtsMyWay is offering one Luxist reader a $200 gift certificate to create their own custom shirts. To enter the contest leave a comment below telling us which fabric you'd choose from the ShirtsMyWay website to make your own custom shirt.

* To enter, leave a confirmed comment below.
* The comment must be left and confirmed before September 20, 2010 at 5:00PM Eastern Time.
* You may only enter once.
* One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
* One winner will receive a $200 Shirts My Way gift certificate.
* Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia.

See complete giveaway rules here.

This contest is now closed. Thank you for your participation.

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New Shirts Fight Floppy Collar Syndrome

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel

A new San-Francisco company has taken on a problem we didn't know existed: Floppy Collar Syndrome. According to Askel Paris the tieless trend in menswear has led to a nation of less-than-snappy dressers with shirt collars sinking below their jackets. Their answer, a collar that won't sit down even if you beg.

Designer Yazid Aksas has created a slim fit, button down made of pure cotton and featuring a stiff collar, a boldly colored interior and square buttons. The shirts are available for less than $100 and the website playfully hints that the shirts will help you "score hot chicks."

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Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts

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Filed under: Apparel

New luxury review blog Spungle recently checked out the shirts of Charles Tyrwhitt and came away seriously impressed. Charles Tyrwhitt makes a variety of shirts and offers a high level of customization. You can pick out your favorite fabric and style and then get a bunch of shirts made at one. Spungle checked out a couple of shirts including the non-iron classic which resists both wrinkles and stains and the Sea Islands shirts which can be worn as both formal attire and daily work shirts.

They also do women's shirts and suits as well as tiny shirts for boys and girls that are adorably perfect in each scaled-down detail. My favorite is the blue Hibiscus print for little boys. So perfect for summer, it sells for $26.25.

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