Regalia Shirts

Bespoke shirts will always improve your image.  I found Regalia, who make good looking bespoke shirts, a few days ago.

Regalia are a bespoke menswear shop in Sicilian Avenue in Bloomsbury in London.  They sell some ready to wear suits and shirts but they specialize in bespoke shirts. Regalia is run by Joe Martins and S-J Aldeen, gentlemen tailors of considerable experience.

Joe and SJ have a very geared-up bespoke shirt service and here is a quick run-down of it. 

Bespoke Shirt basics

The shirts are made from English or Swiss cottons and tailored in Spain.  They take three weeks to make.  Once they are made, they are pressed and boxed.  Completed shirts can be picked up from the shop or you can have them shipped on. 

As you would expect from a bespoke service there are a wide range of options available to customize your shirts.  You can choose from 35 collar types, five cuff types, various body types and fronts.  They can also embroider your initials on the shirt. 

They also provide over 350 shirt fabrics to choose from.  Besides cottons of various qualities, there are also a number of silks to choose from. 

Shirt Making: The Fitting Room

Shirt making takes place in Regalia’s fitting room.  Here they have collar and cuff samples on display, which makes it a lot easier to choose your shirt finishes.  There are also sample shirts of various kinds, to try on.  Best of all, the fitting room has a wall-mounted rack frame, on which there are samples of all of the shirt fabrics.

This racking works really well, because the fabrics are graded by price, which means that you can work to whatever budget you have, whilst looking at and handling the fabrics. 

The Shirt Fitting process

The process is simple, there are four basic stages: 

You choose the fabric you want the shirts made up in. 

Joe or SJ will get you to try on a sample shirt, to establish which basic shirt type suits you best.

You choose the collar, cuffs and any other detailing that you want.  There are samples to handle and try.

Joe or SJ will measure you, build a specification for your shirt and,

You are done!

These gentlemen tell me that they can complete the whole process in fifteen minutes.  Quick, simple and easy.  You could do it in your lunch hour…

Costs

Shirts cost from £49 for a poly/cotton shirt through to £120 for a superfine Swiss cotton shirt.  For a full list of prices and everything else you can go to their website at http://www.regalia-bespoke.co.uk/

Orders can be for a single shirt or multiples.

Bespoke shirts at competitive prices.  Works for me.

Regalia 

10 Sicilian Avenue

Bloomsbury

London

WC1A 2QD

Tel: 44 (0)207 430 2151

Web Site: www.regalia-bespoke.co.uk