G: Quality, Sizing and Word of Mouth

Just recd a Peach Blue plaid from the grab bag, and I have some weird results: The patterns are matched well, but it was clearly not CUT to align, simply sewn in alignment. So the shirt fits like crap, which makes the pattern look wonkey. Oh and the chest is 2" x 2 too tight.

You can see that to get it aligned they pulled things around, because a stripe that matches across the placket does not hit at the same point below the arm seams where I was measuring. You can see here the blue check above the tape is just below the arm seam on the left, and about 0.5" high caught up in the arm seam on the right:


Note the pulling at the placket is from me stretching the shirt as wide as it would go for the sake of measuring. Even after that you can see it hit about 19.5 aka 39" which for a slim L should be 43.5". This seems so wrong I was wondering if you guys can tell if I'm measuring wrong?

Edit: after seeing that pic blown up I rescind my statement that the placket matches. Looks like at the point I'm talking about it does indeed skew from there on.

Only the chest and waist were off, the shoulders and length were spot on. I will say it seems like the back is much more full cut than the front, giving the impression that I might have a large shirt with small front pieces caused by somebody grabbing from the wrong pile during construction.

Holy cow. I just received the green twill shirt that I ordered like what, 4 months ago, and it's beyond ridiculous. The entire front pattern is tilted at about 5 degree angle. Not just on one side, but all the way across. I didn't even bother to look at what else may have been wrong with it, because it went right back into it's bag, ready to ship right back to them. New low. I just sent 4 shirts back to them for a refund, and as bad as those were, this one is a whole new level of bad.

Wasn't someone's Blue Rust flannel like that?

Pics for another good laugh?

Says he packed it up.  Why bother?  We've seen plenty of these and it's an old story by now.  Sadly.

Well packed it up probably means put it back into the open plastic bag it came in, so it wouldn't exactly be crazy difficult to pull it back out.

That's too bad oatwilly, sorry to hear about your luck. With the poor craftsmanship aside, how did you like the fabric? Its the green cousin to my Blue Rustic Twill which I love, and I was thinking I'd back the green rustic twill if they brought it back. If the craftsmanship wasn't so poor would it be a shirt you'd recommend?

I was kinda hoping to see what they looked like in the wild, but I guess I made an ill-timed joke and got caught by the fun police.

I'll continue to back G shirts and take that risk. G shirt fabrics are just simply....really effin cool. They are far more interesting than any other brand out there imo, excluding maybe IH but that's not really Apples to Apples. Most of the shirts by other brands are just not interesting fabrics to me and are dull, bland, and monotonous.

I vowed not to back another patterned G shirt for a while after my Orange Fade Plaid sewed up a little wonky. And I do mean a little; it is perfectly wearable, unlike some of these latest horror shows. It would seem that this was a wise decision.

That said, I am quite fond of my Slate Blue Twill. Sewed up bang on spec, and the alignment is perfect. Because it's a solid. Wa-hey!

For realz, I'll still consider a G shirt if the right solid fabric comes along and tempts me. But there's no way I'd touch a pattern with a ten foot pole.