Gustin Work Shirt Thread

It's non-selvedge, which probably accounts for most of that.

Gustin's price is driven by market lately. Since their sales of WS is pretty soft based on my observation, they probably want to find cheaper fabric to adjust the selling price. 

Btw, I finally get my HSWS 10 minutes ago. My first impression is a good shirt but nothing truly super excited. The selvedge run off is a bit silly because the HS's selvedge line is all white. Quality wise is good but again, nothing jump out to me. I will try it on later to check out the fit and share my experience. 

I like the looks of the new shirt, but like others, have to wait to see how my HB work shirt fits before I'd consider more.  Its too bad they didn't get these out before offering it up.  Oh, and by the way, sorry if I made some angry at me for making a comment about LD on gustins forum, while they were doing a little bashing.  I figure that for the most part, I won't be buying much from Gustin, and I won't be posting anything over there unless its cheerleading type nice stuff.  Like my mom used to say, if I can't say anything nice, don't say anyting at all.  Its not my place to point out their flaws.  The new folks can figure it out themselves

I hear you.  I was glad to see that some posted that they were very close to the fit guide, but I don't think I would have the luxury to try and shrink mine if its too long, because any chest shrinkage will not work for me, unless it sews up big, which I doubt. 

ickes, no WS yet? I am really curious how yours is going to turn out.

I just tried on my Hickory Stripe Work shirt. I am 5'10 156lbs. The shirt is regular medium and the fit looks quite awful on me. The sleeves are about 1 inche too long and the body is about 2-3 inches too long. The top is not too tight but the bottom block is too wide. The workmanship is "ok" and one of the button came loose the first time being unbutton.

Anyway, I am putting this one for sale. One person had already asked for it last week and if he fell through, I will post it on the BST here again. Cannot do it on Gustin since I AM BLOCK OUT from Gustin's community.

Sounds like I need to just forget the Gustin work shirt. It's unfortunate.. The Hboner looked really nice.

For you guys lamenting the sleeve and body length: is it simply a matter of the fit not being right for you, or did the shirt not sew up to spec?

I still having measured mine. But from the general consensus and fit pics they are definitely longer than the normal Gshirts. I get Medium in my regular Gshirts and other for the Medium Slim WS. the slim is definitely a better fit through the body, I just say.

It's just about 2" too long to be fashionable. If they were $40-50 cheaper, I would definitely invest in them to actually WORK in.

Why not return it? If it is dropping buttons and measures longer than spec, you can probably get a refund rather than the hassle of selling it and passing those problems onto someone else.

I don't know it is longer than spec. It is just long in general. Let me go measure it tomorrow.

well, umm.. I'm sad to see everyone bummed out about these. My hickory stripe is perfect for what I got it for, but a jacket fit is a very different sort of expectation that wearing it as a shirt. After the wash this thing hits me right at the pockets (pulled up to a little bit shorter than the chore coat), buttons up over an undershirt and button down, and looks pretty great. I mean, the collar edges line up into arrow points is how good the craft is on it. I know you can't see this on the solids, but it is a really cool effect.

So I guess maybe my advice on the Gustin workshirt is to get one that's a looser weave cause it should shrink up nicely making the length issues far less of a problem. I am concerned, however, for my brown black, which I ordered with the specific intention of wearing as a shirt. But hell, maybe I have some freak torso that makes long shirts okay, I don't know. I can see how the Gustin fits just wouldn't work for a muscular build, and maybe that's what people are running into. The body would be way boxy with the relatively modest taper to the shirts, and you would have to go huge to get big shoulders into them, amplifying the issue.

If I were stuck with the thing, though, and hated the length, I guess I would try BST, and if that didn't work out I'd get out the scissors and make the thing my own. If anyone takes me up on that, though, be careful with your chainstitches, cause I hear those can pull and zip open the entire shirt if you get a bad angle on em.

Regarding what they're thinking with the long shirts, long hems on shirts are actually popular in mens fashion right now, so they're probably trying to straddle that difference between traditional styling and fashion. It's not really worth getting into too much here, since this isn't the tapered joggers and cosmos themed sweatshirts crowd.