Whitesville by Sugar Cane White Crew Neck t Shirt WV73544 CANE2827

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Rivet & Hide ships from the UK. If you’re looking for other places to buy Studio D’Artisan, try: Self Edge (USA), Okayama Denim (Japan), Redcast Heritage (Spain), Son of a Stag (UK), Corlection (Australia) Note: These tees will shrink around 1cm (0.4") in the chest and 2cm (0.8") in length upon their first cold wash and hang-dry. Please size accordingly and follow care instructions on the tag. Look for words like the following: organic/certified organic, fair-trade, long-staple/extra-long-staple, Pima/Supima, Sea Island, Giza, and Suvin Gold. For places of origin, look for Japan, USA, Egypt, and Zimbabwe. This is not an exhaustive list, but it’s a good starting point. Corlection ship from Australia. If you’re looking for other places to buy The Flat Head, try: Self Edge (USA), Denimio (Japan), Rivet & Hide (UK), and DC4 (Germany). If you’ve chosen to ignore the T-shirt in this space until now, we’re encouraging you to take these makers up on their offer.

So now that you know our winners and losers, we’re going to break down each tee individually with its own pros and cons and who might enjoy what it has to offer.Two days after buying my first well-made tee, I gathered up an armload of old tees and donated the lot. I kept my most treasured ones, but I said goodbye to the rest, and I haven’t regretted it for a moment. Looking at this many white t-shirts had the same effect on me as when you hear the same word over and over and over again. It no longer has any meaning and is just sort of an abstract mishmash of syllables (say “broccoli” out loud a dozen times to get what I’m talking about). It was only after passing this point of “tee decay” that I began to understand these shirts for their differences rather than their similarities.

When I ask people about their favourite tees, the conversation veers off in one of two directions. Those who have made the leap into well-made basics territory talk about the dye, the cotton, or the construction. Keep the Best, Bin the RestThe pattern for a T-shirt is relatively simple. In the well-made space, we can start looking for fewer seams. A handful of the best makers use loopwheel machines, which knit the cotton around a wheel, creating a tube rather than a sheet of cotton. Until 1951, when Marlon Brando played petulant and perpetually sweat-drenched Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, the T-shirt was regarded in the same light as Y-front briefs. It was an undergarment. On sweaty nights, a man might strip down to this layer, but usually only when he was safely behind the walls of his castle. It’s not remotely controversial to call Merz the king of basics. The German brand started over a century ago, but they folded like a cheap shirt when cheaper manufacturing led to a rapidly shrinking market.

Andorra, Austria, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Italy, Monaco,Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Vatican City

Measurements and Shrinkage

Long ago, in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains, the Basques believed that undergarments could, with love and faith, be endowed with magical properties to protect the wearer. The French brand has taken this story to heart, and their basics do seem to have a touch of the old Basque magic. In the middle of the sizing spectrum, these tees fit great, and they’re just that little bit lighter than the typical heavy loopwheel tees (a bit of a relief if you regularly get hot under the collar).