Anna makes a very, very nice shirt.  It is definitely a shirt that calls notice to itself as it has a lot of detailing and a soft shape that is pretty distinct from the shirts of any other shirtmaker that I have encountered.  More than anything Anna and her family, like has been said about the Sivigias, are wonderful, generous people.  I always look forward to spending time with them.

The shirts that you mention, BCL, are in fact interesting.  They are a sort of sport shirt/polo that is made from regular shirting material.  I actually have never been tempted by them as I find them very hard to get on and off, but the only other client of Anna's who I know really loves the one he had made up.  Anna tends to be very creative and has made me shirt-jackets that are wonderful and is very adept at making womens shirts as well.  My wife is a big fan of them. 

Thanks for posting the pictures Marc.

Yes PB, I suppose that it is.  The first time I tried them on, my wife was with me at the shop.  As I was getting it off of me, I just couldn't get it over my head correctly and all I could hear in my blindness were my wife, Anna and her daughter laughing at me jumping around half clothed.  For my summer casual shirts, I have decided to go the non-popover route and to get a soft riviera style collar.

The downside is that the popover style is better with my favorite santa headwear.

I had not seen hand-stitching on a shirt previously and in admiring the photos, I can appreciate why fans of Anna Matuozzo enjoy her shirts. There is an almost organic quality, a tangible sense of the human hand having played an integal part in the making of the shirt.  You feel a connection with AM. At the same time, I also marvel at the level of fastidiousness of the machine-stitching of my MS shirts, which is so uncannily straight, refined, and clean as to be nearly invisible to the eye.  Both approaches display their own esthetics, and can co-exist and do so on an artisanal level.