Chemisier · Fondée 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.
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.
La fiche
Ce que cela coûte
Les prix sur le site →Ce ne sont pas des devis. Les prix indiqués ci-dessous sont les chiffres les plus récents que nous ayons pu attribuer à une source, présentés dans la devise de leur publication.
| Quoi | Service | Prix | Observé |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | Sur mesure | €260–420 | September 2026 |
Maisons souvent considérées en parallèle
Regroupés parce qu'ils se disputent les mêmes commissions ou travaillent dans un idiome comparable : il ne s'agit ni d'un classement ni d'une équivalence.
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Simone Abbarchi
FlorenceA Florentine shirtmaker whose prices have made him the entry point to Italian bespoke for a lot of people.
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Anna Matuozzo
NaplesAnna 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.
Crédits photographiques 3
- An illustration of a shirt of the kind the house makes. Not a photograph of the house's own work.: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- An illustration of a shirt of the kind the house makes. Not a photograph of the house's own work.: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
- An illustration of a shirt of the kind the house makes. Not a photograph of the house's own work.: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art