Gustin Work Shirt Thread

+ 1 guys. Help us last in the shipping line dudes out, we won't know anything until the postals ship......(roll effects tape: the sound of crickets)......

Or that's the guy they measure for all their fits. It's also one of the first samples they showed, and honestly seems cut for the guy modeling it. Could also be an early sample of the slim fit. My HS1 is classic fit, so unfortunately I can't really comment as to how the slim is coming out. I think the only slim fit pics were from the mustachioed gentleman, but he probably could have sized down at least one size from where he was. Speaking of him, I hope it shrunk up for him a bit if/when he washed it.

For my HS1, I'll jump back and find my measurements table and paste it here. But I have a classic XL, and washed it on Warm/Cold in a front loader (I want to say on gentle cycle, but I don't remember), a little bit of oxi-clean powder, extra low spin. Hung it dry, and to keep the collar from getting all curly I pulled it them straight while drying. Didn't get a noticeable change in the "coloring", and it softened up a little bit. I imagine if I had dried it I could have gotten far more shrink out of it, but I think this is a looser weave than the infamous IxI warkshirt.

exophobe: Awesome, thanks! Very helpful. So, with the HS, seems like what you did (warm/cold wash, and hang dry) would bring my HS to a MUCH better fit. Sleeves will probably still be a bit long, but I can always do another wash with a hot dry to bring them in a bit more, if the chest/shoulders still have room to shrink on me (which is not likely, since I'm broad shouldered but short, with short arms. Perhaps what you did, and then a tailor can bring the sleeves in (luckily, my Mom can handle doing that. She can't chainstich hem heavy denim, but she can do most anything else with reasonable fabric weights).


For the IxI, I think going the super hot soak and hot dry will be necessary. I'll def. record pre/post measurements of each. And fit pics, if I can get some take before I shrink 'em up.

FWIW, I went WS crazy, and have the Postal Hbone, Wabasabi, and brownXblack all coming in (all in Classic L, which I've been pissed I didn't go M, but I went with my G shirt size, like most of us). Hopefully it works out that that was actually the right thing to do, size wise. Oh, and yesterday, right before heading out for an MRI that I was terrified about doing (60 minutes in the damn thing, and I'm claustrophobic like a MF'er) ...I checked the G-store, saw that the American Hbone was at 99%, and backed it (went to fully funded after, so I grabbed the last one). I only did it to give myself a distraction before I left the house, if that makes sense. The damn thing looks like it could be really tacky, or really cool ....I'm thinking some hard wear and a few washes will make a nice shirt out of it .... kill any sheen and soften it up. Either way, 6 G WS's is just .... stupid. lol.  Especially since I haven't taken my IHSH-33 off since I got it a few weeks ago. That thing has become my Linus blanket. Seriously love that thing!


  

Hmmm ....that sucks  Ickes had some decent shrinkage on his IxI (1 page back). Wonder why you had different results.

Either I give it a try, or I sell it as "tried on once" before I do anything to it - to some tall dude with ape like arms.  Sucks that we have to make these decisions. 

FourHorsemen; I soaked for about an hour and fifteen minutes. I cranked my water heater to max and did the same with the bath water. Fade factor was minimal. It lossed a good amount as the bath water was very blue but after the dryer cylce it visually did not change to a lighter shade. I did not use Woolite or any other detergent, just water

oh, and then I threw in the dryer on high heat.

oh, one other thing I noticed that has nothing to do with shrinking but I thought was really cool...the first day I wore it outside in the sunlight I looked down at it through my polarized shades and the color in the sunlight just looked absolutely amazing. Only through the polarized lenses though...I mean I love the color as is but it looks like the richest, deepest, most vibrant indigo color you could imagine through the sunglasses...lol...it was such a trip! I felt like a stoner sitting there tripping out on my shirt man....yeaaahh!!!! (insert stoner laugh here...)

Everywhere i go (restaurants, friend of Kids house etc) People want to hang my jackets and i always say No its too heavy. I also get the look like im an alien. So i throw it on the floor and they are like !!!! And im like hey it will live. People are also always afraid of my jackets if its raining and im like hey if it cant stand water then its a bad jacket dun worry, and then im like worrying about getting wet on the jeans and they dont understand, and im like well i havent washed them for eight months and would really like to maintain the raw patina a little longer. At this point they usually Just shift subject.

Well, my wife openly calls me gay.  But she also thinks it's "adorable".  Oddly, women dig it.  And when you're obviously not metro like me, I think they dig it even more.  Why not?  Women dog smart and funny guys.  I'll talk clothing and gear all damn day long.  If a guy can't hang with that, then he's a joker.  Looking good and feeling good is important.  Roll with it baby!

My wife is not into my style today and I get no love from her. She is more into the Italian brands and she thinks everything I wear today is poor fit and too young for my age. She wants me to wear more tailor shirts and dressy shoes. Btw, she hates all plaid and flannel..... and 60% of my current shirts are those....

My Gustin Hickory Stripe Work Shirt. You can see two buttons have came loose already. You can also see two scopes sew up totally difference. Anyway, I paid $140 and this shirt is very likely the worst clothing purchase from the last five years. No doubt in my mind.

Btw, those selvedge run off is totally silly... I am going to cut them off.