When shopping for your dress shirt size in store from a ready to wear brand, generally the only option you have is to choose based on your neck size. Most conventional, ready to wear brands will create a full shirt profile solely off the neck size. Some brands will offer their dress shirts with sleeve length variations to try and create a better fit.

The standard dress shirt sizes we offer are based on the database of customer measurement profiles we have stored and multiple different ready to wear brands. We have tried to create more accurate dress shirt sizing to give those customers who do not want to measure an existing shirt or their body, a genuine opportunity to wear a good fitting shirt.
There are two key measurements of a dress shirt that need to be right (as a bare minimum) for your body in order for it to look good. The shoulder seams need to sit on the edge of your shoulder bones, they act effectively like a coat hanger. Getting the dress shirts sleeve length right is important so as to not have excess fabric bunching in the arms or vice versa, have cuffs that disappear up the suit jacket sleeve.

The most common complaint we get regarding dress shirt sizes is the excess fabric through the torso of the shirt. For slimmer people it is almost impossible to by off the rack dress shirts that are well contoured through the torso. This is where knowing your body measurements is extremely useful to enable you to utilize NiAlma’s full dress shirt tailoring service. All of the critical size aspects of the shirt are cut perfectly to your body. An easy way to establish a good measurement profile is to measure a shirt you own and wear and make adjustments to the dimensions based on the size issues you have with it. If you feel there is too much fabric around the torso take 1.00” – 2.00” off waist measurement. This can be applied to each dimension of the shirt until you have created your own unique dress shirt size profile.