The Atelier
A shirtmaker, two shirts, and one rule.
We make two shirts. The dress shirt and the casual shirt. We make them the same way an old house in Naples would: a single hand from the collar to the cuff, with the same needle for every stitch. Nothing about that is novel. Most of what passes for a shirt has simply forgotten it.
The cloth
We use one cloth. A 140s two-ply Egyptian cotton, woven in Como, in a finish that holds the iron without showing it. It is heavier in the hand than what you have probably been wearing, and the difference shows itself in a year, not a day.
The hand
Every shirt is single-needle stitched, which means a slower seam and a flatter line. The placket is finished by hand. The collar is built on a horsehair canvas, never fused. The buttons are mother-of-pearl and they are sewn on with thread that has been waxed by the same hand that drew it.
The rule
We will not cut a shirt until we have looked at the measurements ourselves. We will email you, tell you what we see, and only then put scissors to cloth. The shirt arrives in six weeks. If, after a year, you would change something — a sleeve, a collar, the way it falls at the hip — we will make you another. One a year, for as long as you wear them.