Ranking Men's RTW Shirts (54 BEST & WORST Menswear Brands!)

About this video

The Gazette team ranks approximately 100 ready-to-wear dress shirt brands from A to F, evaluating quality and price-to-value ratio. They assess brands ranging from budget options like Uniqlo and LL Bean to luxury labels like Kiton and Tom Ford, explaining their reasoning for each grade and discussing construction details, fit, and whether prices justify the quality offered.

Key takeaways

• The Gazette team grades shirts on a scale where A means exceptional quality worth the price, B represents better dress shirts, C indicates average quality, D means barely acceptable, and F means poor value or poor quality
• The team emphasizes that price significantly impacts their final grade—a shirt with B-level quality may receive a D or F grade if it’s overpriced relative to construction and materials
• The Gazette team recommends considering brands like Eton, Finamore, Drake’s, and 100 Hands (Gold Line) as offering strong value, while cautioning against premium-priced brands like Brioni, Kiton, and Tom Ford that don’t justify their cost
• The Gazette team notes that fit varies significantly across brands and that personal preference matters greatly, so their rankings should guide research rather than dictate purchases
• The team highlights specific quality markers they value: hand-sewn details, unfused collars, quality interlinings, pattern matching, appropriate sleeve length, and fabric hand—with Italian and English-made shirts often offering more handwork than mass-manufactured alternatives

Episode details: published January 30, 2023 · 247K views · 36:46 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. The style guidance summarized here is the Gentleman’s Gazette team’s own teaching and opinion, presented for education; product recommendations are theirs, not ours. Summaries are written by Self Growth Videos from each video itself.

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