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Shirtmaker · Founded 1955

G. Inglese

G. Inglese is a family shirtmaker in the small Puglia town of Ginosa, famous worldwide through specialist shops and online for heavily hand-sewn shirts.

G. Inglese is a family shirtmaker in Ginosa, in Puglia, making bespoke and made-to-measure shirts with extensive hand work. Its international reputation was built through specialist retailers and online rather than through a shop in a capital city.

BespokeMade-to-measureReady-to-wear
An illustration of a shirt of the kind the house makes. Not a photograph of the house's own work.
An illustration of a shirt of the kind the house makes. Not a photograph of the house's own work.
House style — shoulder: not documented
Chest — extensive handwork
Fittings 1–2 6–16 weeks
From $320 lowest documented, converted

Provincial in the good sense

Southern Italian shirtmaking is not concentrated in Naples; there are family workshops across the region with no shopfront and no marketing. Inglese is the clearest case of one of them reaching an international market.

The shirts are made in the southern manner (soft collars, hand-attached where it matters) at prices below the Neapolitan names, which is partly a matter of location and partly of not having a Chiaia address.

The house

Three generations in the same Pugliese town, making shirts with a high proportion of hand work (collar, sleeve head and buttonholes among them) and also producing a small range of ties and accessories.

Orders are taken directly and through specialist retailers, and the house travels for fittings.

Southern shirtmaking

The southern Italian approach to a shirt is the same as its approach to a jacket: soft, light, and assembled by hand wherever a hand does it better. Collars are unlined or very lightly lined and roll rather than standing. It is a distinctly different garment from an English shirt, and better suited to being worn without a tie.

Puglia, without leaving

The house reached an international clientele from a small town in Puglia rather than by moving to Milan or Naples, which is now possible in a way it was not twenty years ago and says something about how the trade has changed. Direct online ordering and trunk shows have made a workshop's location much less determining than its ability to communicate.

The shirts are Southern Italian in character (soft, light, unstructured), and the house also works extensively in linen, which the northern shirtmakers treat as a summer exception rather than a staple.

The record

Founded
1955
Country
Italy
Service levels
Bespoke · Made-to-measure · Ready-to-wear
Shoulder
— not documented in a source we could verify
Chest construction
— not documented in a source we could verify
Silhouette
— not documented in a source we could verify
Handwork
Extensive
Cutting in house
— not documented in a source we could verify
Sewing in house
— not documented in a source we could verify
Made in
Ginosa, Italy
Fittings
1–2
Lead time
6–16 weeks
Ownership
— not stated by the house
Known for
Bespoke Shirts · Value
Record confidence
MediumHow much of this record rests on primary sources rather than reporting.As of September 2026
Location
Ginosa, Puglia
Character
Southern Italian; soft collars, substantial hand work
Makes
The dress shirt

What it costs

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These are not quotations. Prices below are the most recent figures we could attribute to a source, shown in the currency they were published in.

WhatServicePrice TaxObservedBasis
Bespoke shirtAn indicative band, not a quotation. Bespoke entry prices normally exclude tax and cloth beyond the house bunch, and houses raise them without announcement. Bespoke €260–420 excludes VAT September 2026 Estimated-Range
Il Sartoriale compilation from publicly reported figures
Bespoke prices normally exclude cloth beyond a house bunch, alterations after delivery and shipping. Confirm with the house before commissioning.

Houses often considered alongside it

Grouped because they compete for the same commission or work in a comparable idiom: not a ranking, and not an equivalence.

  1. An illustration of a shirt of the kind the house makes. Not a photograph of the house's own work. Simone Abbarchi Florence

    A Florentine shirtmaker whose prices have made him the entry point to Italian bespoke for a lot of people.
  2. An illustration of a shirt of the kind the house makes. Not a photograph of the house's own work. Anna Matuozzo Naples

    Anna Matuozzo is a Naples shirtmaker, now run by the founder's daughters, whose custom shirts have unusually much hand sewing, including collars, sleeves and buttonholes.
Last reviewed: September 2026 Prices and service details change; this page states the date each figure was observed. Report an error on this page

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