Dressed for Success
Even if we aren’t dressing to go to work, it can be nice to wear a shirt that is stylish, unique to us, while not costing the earth to buy; but where do we find such a shirt?
A lot of men are used to buying and wearing the same shirt every day. It just makes life easy. We go to where we have our shirts – the location depends on whether you live alone, or have someone in your life who knows about hanging up clothes – and we just reach for a clean version of the shirt that we have worn every day that week, and the previous week, and the one before that, etc. So, what do you do if you fancy a change?
The whole shopping experience can be unnerving for most men. We go into a shop that has row upon row of clothing, and try to find our ‘usual’. Of course, for many men, that shirt went out of production in the early 1990’s; so what next? Do you keep staring blankly at the shelves, maybe ask someone for their advice – which can feel unnatural for your average male – or, in the grip of overwhelming panic, you opt for something totally new?
Most men will be shivering with fear by now, but you still have a couple of choices that you have to navigate your way around: off the shelf standard shirts, or custom tailored dress shirts? You probably never saw that one coming. Off the shelf may seem like the natural choice, but, don’t you think that seeing you are being forced to make the change, you should be courageous and take the plunge with custom tailored dress shirts?
Now that you are in fully uncharted waters, what do you do next? The next thing to decide is if you want to go to a high street tailor to have your new shirt made for you, or if you want to take a different approach to getting your new, one of a kind shirt. Yes, there is another option, and it’s one that most people don’t know about – Design your own dress shirt.
That may sound like the worst possible thing that you could ever see yourself doing, but you can actually make it quite fun, and you may spend hours getting creative. Here’s what you have to do, go to: www.deoveritas.com. That’s right; you can do this online. Is it starting to sound like a bit more fun, now?
When you visit the site you will be presented with everything that you need to design your own dress shirt. You will have your choice of fabrics, including colors; a selection of collars, cuffs, pockets, plackets, and, well, a lot of other things that you have probably never heard of. This is where things start to get fun, as you change your choice of the above, as well as the back pleats, bottom cut, collar stays, etc; you get to see what your new shirt is going to look like – how good is that?
By the time you have finished you’ll have a fully customized, possibly even monogrammed, shirt of your own design. You might even know what some of the terms are, too. Then you can start heading to work, going out to formal gatherings and anything else that you want to do, in one of your originals. You may even get people asking where you bought it.
Now, the price; a designer shirt has a designer price tag, right? Well, no, not in this case, you may be pleasantly surprised at what you will be paying to have a one off of your own design. You won’t have had to venture out to one of those scary clothes shops to get it, too. It’s nothing but win-win when you visit www.deoveritas.com, so what are you waiting for?
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