Your mate Paddy viewed them as the ONLY shirt!

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This is what I was trying to get across before about brooks. The london store is just awful because there is no choice.They seem to stock a pathetic amount of lines.
I think someone mentioned it was a concession.
my american made blue ocbds are superior to all else in roll and colour. That special iridescence.

Brooks Brothers definitely still makes a very good shirt, although in most US stores the all-cotton, must-irons are no longer stocked. Special-order only or available online.

Funny to think about LL Bean's shirts (and even Land's End) in the early 80's. They were excellent, came in a range of fabrics and were shameless copies of Brook's offerings. Now all one can find at Bean is the non-iron kind which are ok for what they are  but not like the real deal. I also remember that endless quest for the perfect shade of pale or light-chambray blue. Brooks and Land's End had it, Bean never did, but they did a pale yellow that had a sunset luster hard to match.

Yep, shirts are a good place to start.

J. Press were A list until the switch to Canadian manufacture and those new stiff collars - When was that? 2004?
Not Canada's fault. Press has to be in charge of what they do, no matter who actually does it for them.

I was chatting to David Wilder about this a while back when he was coming to London, but that volcano got in the way...
Japan would need to decide.

Paul Stuart seems to do well in Tokyo, have seen it in quite a few shops for the "discerning" gent