retail therapy

[rm]

http://www.chinatowner.com/storefront/listproducts.aspx?idProduct=2823 (prolly navy blue, maybe the red. Not the black)

or

http://www.chinatowner.com/storefront/listproducts.aspx?idProduct=2868 (black)

or

http://www.chinatowner.com/storefront/listproducts.aspx?idProduct=2518 (definitely black)

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Comments

[beemerbike.livejournal.com]

I think i like the second one best...you have a long neck and that would really fit nicely.

[rm.livejournal.com]

It's rather femme, I think, but it would look cool as hell with my bustle skirt.

[beemerbike.livejournal.com]

I love how you seem so comfortable in gent or fem clothes. It's rather hard for most people to pull that off.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Physically comfortable, sure. Emtnally comfortable....less so. It's funny in that my men's clothe slook more costumey to most people, but it's in women's clothes that I always feel costumed.

[beemerbike.livejournal.com]

I totally get that. I just cannot wear girly stuff. The last time I wore something without pant legs was highschool graduation...only because it wasn't optional.

There is just something about how a man's shirt fits/feels.

[rm.livejournal.com]

You do know about all the custome tailored men's shirt sites, right? I have this whole _thing_ about the horror of finding the right white shirt, especially for my aesthetic sensibility. Which is why I love these sites, but they are always like "wait, wait... really?" "Yes, trust me."

[beemerbike.livejournal.com]

lol. I did not know about the 'thing' I'm kinda freaky about my shirts. I need to get back into the habit of ironing again.

I cannot wait for my little shopping spree this summer. I need so many new dress shirts.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

*pokes head in* Custom tailored men's shirts?

As in, custom for real custom?

Like, I could have a shirt that would fit me?

I can't dress like a man. there's an eleven-inch difference between my bust and my ribcage. It looks stupid when I try to squash things down. I used to dress up in men's clothes all the time as a young adolescent-- my father had no sons, and someone had to go to military reenactments with him, but I really did look pretty funny in Civil War garb-- I was a C cup even then. Not subtle.

... But there are people that custom-make clothes any more, for real???

[rm.livejournal.com]

For real.
Lots of people do.

This ranges from stuff like my custom Snape coat I got from Kambriel.com and the Regency men's suit I had made to my measurements by Satin Shadow to things like the folks at eShakti.com, which do hand made to costum measurements Indian and Indian-influenced clothes.

For men's shirts, I like garytailor.com and executivetailor.com and dream of being able to afford http://www.listerouge-paris.com/