For many years, my budget was such that a $150 button-up shirt simply wasn’t a possibility. During that period, I had two choices: 1) scour local thrift stores in the hope of finding something at least marginally well-fitting (a near impossibility for my size). Or, 2) go to H&M / Gap / Etc. and shell out $50+ on a piece of disposable, slave-made crap. Needless to say, neither was particularly appealing. That’s why, for me, the discovery of Swedish custom clothier The Tailor Store was such a revelation. It meant that I could pick-up a shirt for equal to, or less than, the cost of any comparable mall brand, have it fit exactly how I wanted, and, know for a fact that it was made in an ethically run factory.

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