The best Oxford shirt

[Shirtmaven]

Interesting. I don't have a lot of brands in my wardrobe but they're one of the few that performs well, but is also soft with the right heft. On one end of the spectrum I have some Drake's and BB that have a finer hand, are light, and breath well, but they wrinkle. I have the cheapest Proper Cloth and Gitman Vintage as well. These feel cheap and perform the same. Polo is right in the middle and if I could make bespoke I would actually use that cloth. You may be right though because under a scope it doesn't look special at all.

I would assume they are enzyme washed.

 

[Oswald Cornelius]

I have them. Almost everything about them is amazing except they accidentally made them with fused collars, cuffs. (Confirmed directly with Michael Bastian that it’s an error from the factory…)

Some cloths feel better in this configuration for whatever reason. The uni stripe ones have much stiffer collars. The white ones have looser collars, almost feel like there’s no fusing (but there is).

Fit is perfect (only trad cut for me) and cloth, buttons, pocket, and collar length all great. I do love them and do find the fusing softens up the more I wash them, which I’ve been doing aggressively to get that softer feeling. My main goal is to get the puckering near the edges which I find to be the most important detail of a good loved OCBD.

Thank you. I ordered four during the recent (maybe still current) sale a week or so ago. They're on the slow boat so I won't see them until Friday, but I'm anxious. I do hope they're as good as I imagine, and your review makes me hopeful.

Do you know about this 'accidental fusing?' Was it just a lot or two or are they all done that way, now?

I don't know why it's so hard for these legacy brands to a) keep making good stuff the same way they always made it and b) make it absolutely clear what is what when they deviate but use the same model/name/description. I'm looking at you BB OCBDs and you Levi's 501s....

 

[Shirtmaven]

Thank you. I ordered four during the recent (maybe still current) sale a week or so ago. They're on the slow boat so I won't see them until Friday, but I'm anxious. I do hope they're as good as I imagine, and your review makes me hopeful.

Do you know about this 'accidental fusing?' Was it just a lot or two or are they all done that way, now?

I don't know why it's so hard for these legacy brands to a) keep making good stuff the same way they always made it and b) make it absolutely clear what is what when they deviate but use the same model/name/description. I'm looking at you BB OCBDs and you Levi's 501s....

this is what happens whe you no longer control your own production and outsource to a manufacturing agent.
BB sold a 25% stake of Garland, before they went bankrupt, to TAL. a huge company that makes for everyone including BB,charles Trywit, propercloth, etc.
TAL upgraded with lots of automated machinery. sucked the soul out of the factory, and the garments.
Not sure who owns Garland at this point.