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470 entries across tailoring, shoemaking, cloth and craft Reference publication: we sell nothing and rank nobody for payment Every figure carries its source and the date it was checked

11 houses

Shirtmakers

Businesses that make shirts to your measurements. Why these? They are the best-known, and how they build a shirt and what they charge is documented.

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China

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  1. Ascot Chang's Kimberley Road shop, Hong Kong, in 1961 Ascot Chang Hong Kong · 1953

    Ascot Chang is a Hong Kong shirtmaker founded in 1953, with shops there and in New York, that cuts each customer their own pattern.

France

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  1. Charvet's shop at 28 Place Vendôme, Paris Charvet Paris · 1838

    The first shop in the world to make shirts to measure for whoever walked in, and still the reference.

Italy

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An illustration of a shirt of the kind the house makes. Not a photograph of the house's own work. 01

Anna Matuozzo

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.

 An illustration of a shirt of the kind the house makes. Not a photograph of the house's own work. 02

D'Avino

D'Avino is a shirtmaker near Naples making small numbers of custom shirts, known above all for how many steps are sewn by hand.

 An illustration of a shirt of the kind the house makes. Not a photograph of the house's own work. 03

Siniscalchi

Siniscalchi is a Milan shirtmaker making custom shirts that are cleaner and crisper than Naples shirts, with carefully built collars and a close fit.

 An illustration of a shirt of the kind the house makes. Not a photograph of the house's own work. 04

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.

 An illustration of a shirt of the kind the house makes. Not a photograph of the house's own work. 05

Simone Abbarchi

A Florentine shirtmaker whose prices have made him the entry point to Italian bespoke for a lot of people.

 An illustration of a shirt of the kind the house makes. Not a photograph of the house's own work. 06

Luca Avitabile

Luca Avitabile is a Naples shirtmaker who cuts each customer their own pattern and sews nearly everything by hand, mostly meeting clients in London and New York.

United Kingdom

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Turnbull & Asser's shop in St James's, London 01

Turnbull & Asser

Jermyn Street's best-known name, with a bespoke workroom behind the shop and a distinctive collar.

 Budd Shirtmakers' windows in the Piccadilly Arcade, at Christmas 02

Budd Shirtmakers

A small London shirtmaker that has stayed a shirtmaker, in an arcade off Piccadilly.

 An illustration of a shirt of the kind the house makes. Not a photograph of the house's own work. 03

Emma Willis

A Jermyn Street shirtmaker with its own factory in Gloucester: an unusual degree of control.
Every entry in one tablecity, services, style, entry price
House City Founded Services Made in From Observed
Ascot Chang Hong Kong 1953 B · MTM · RTW Hong Kong $200–400 September 2026
Charvet Paris 1838 B · MTM · RTW France €550–900 September 2026
Anna Matuozzo Naples — B · MTM Naples €350–550 September 2026
D'Avino Naples — B · MTM Naples €450–700 September 2026
Siniscalchi Milan — B · MTM Milan €300–480 September 2026
G. Inglese Ginosa, Italy 1955 B · MTM · RTW Ginosa, Italy €260–420 September 2026
Simone Abbarchi Florence — MTM Italy — no published price
Luca Avitabile Naples — B · MTM Naples €320–480 September 2026
Turnbull & Asser London 1885 B · MTM · RTW England £380–600 September 2026
Budd Shirtmakers London 1910 B · MTM · RTW England £330–500 September 2026
Emma Willis London — B · MTM · RTW Gloucester, England £330–520 September 2026
B = bespoke, MTM = made-to-measure, RTW = ready-to-wear. “From” is the lowest documented entry price for the house’s core garment, in the currency it was published in, with the month it was observed. A dash means no price has been published in a source we could verify, not that the house is cheap or expensive.
Picture credits 11
  1. KIMBERLY RD STORE EXPANSION 1961: Photograph · Shortmiracle · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Charvet store: Photograph · Racconish · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Turnbull & Asser, St James's, October 2021: Photograph · No Swan So Fine · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  10. Piccadilly Arcade, December 2015 03: Photograph · Edwardx · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  11. 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

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