Built for the hours you keep
The garment you wear longest — and the one still working when the jacket comes off. Drafted to your neck, your shoulders, and the way your arms actually hang.
A shirt sits closer than anything you own — collar at the neck, cuff at the wrist — and it forgives nothing approximate.
What we make
One pattern, four shirts — what changes is the collar, the cloth, and where the day takes it.
Dress shirt
Cut to live under a jacket — a higher armhole, and a collar with the stand to meet your lapel.
Evening shirt
Pleated or piqué bib, stud holes, double cuffs — a collar built to hold the bow all night.
Sport shirt
Softer collar, more room through the chest, tail cut short and straight so it can be worn out.
Summer shirt
Linen and open weaves, lighter interlining, a little more ease — a shirt that moves when the air doesn't.
Every choice, made with you.
You settle these in front of the cloth at your fitting — then they live on your pattern.
Split yoke. Collar canvas.
Sleeve pitch.
The collar is built around a canvas rather than glued to fusible — which is why it keeps its roll after the wash, and still stands when the tie comes off at six. Your yoke is cut in two halves, because one shoulder sits lower than the other and a single piece of cloth can only pretend otherwise. Sleeves are set to your pitch: arms hang forward, so the sleeve is pitched forward to meet them, and the cuff stays at the wrist when you reach across a table.
Cotton, before it's cut
Poplins and fine broadcloths for the shirts that live under a jacket; oxford, royal oxford, ends-on-end, washed twill and linen for the days that don't. Weave and hand are chosen off the bolt, in daylight when we can — and in the fitting room on this site you see the cloth on the form before a single piece is cut.
See the fabrics we work in →Where it lives
The difference shows up in the ordinary hours, not in the mirror.
When the jacket comes off
By four the shirt is the garment — nothing pulling at the shoulder, nothing gapping at the placket.
The early flight
Sleeves cut to reach, cuffs that clear a watch, a collar that survives the overhead bin.
January on Adams
Cut to take a layer — knit, topcoat, scarf — without binding across the back.
Bring the shirt you like
Start with a conversation — at our Chicago studio, at your office, or by video from anywhere.