Color is an important element when choosing the right shirt. According to color theory, every color sends different messages; therefore if you are aiming for a certain message we suggest that you wear a specific color. Colors can also affect your mood and your energy, so it will impact how others view you. Below, you will find meanings behind some popular colors.
Red represents power, passion, and authority. Red is demanding, exciting and energetic; it portrays confidence and control. Firefighters wear red, projecting power and control. If attention is what you seek, red is the color for you. In business, red is best utilized as a tie with a white or blue shirt.
Alexander West was highlighted in this month’s Town and Country Magazine as one of the top places to shop in the new Limelight Marketplace. Our Limelight Showroom location has been an enormous success! We hope to bring more top quality custom dress shirts to our new, highly multiplying clientele! Pick up an issue this month to read all about it!
Happy Father’s Day from Alexander West! Rebel Mom, the blog for “hip” mom life after the reality of children sets in mentioned us in her Father’s Day Gift Guide!
A gift card from Alexander West is a sure way to keep him looking his best! Click here to read all about it.
Face Color Contrast is the degree of color difference between your skin and your hair color. Black hair and white skin have the highest contrast level, while blonde hair and fair skin have the lowest contrast level. To look your best, you want to connect your face contrast level features with the clothes you are wearing. If you are high contrast, high contrasting clothes would suit you best because it creates a cohesive unit between your face and your clothes.
Alexander West has made life easier for you when ordering custom shirts. Please visit us at our new “no appointment”, walk-in showroom in the recently renovated Limelight Marketplace. We’re on the 1st floor in the Festival of Shops. USA Today has covered the Limelight in their Lifestyle Section. Click here to see AW in USA Today!
The Choosy Beggar gave Alexander West a glowing review and claimed that the custom dress shirt he received “Fits like a glove out of the box and unpressed — Instant confidence”. The Choosy Beggar also gave us props for the “Double stitching — 18 stitches per inch — around the armholes for maximum strength” and our 2mm thick Mother-of-Pearl buttons.
One Eight Nine, or commonly known as OEN or 189.com was so impressed with the AW Anatomy of a Shirt blog (3.1.10), that they featured it in the Fashion section of their blog. 189.com is well rounded editorial blog covering fashion, design, media and all things creative.
Made to Measure, a menswear/photography blog with advice on how men can look their best while remaining budget conscious has raved about our Spring line up. They featured some of their favorite prints and fabrics as they called us a “wise investment”.
As we welcome the sun back to New York City, we are introducing more fabrics, colors and patterns.
We have had an incredibel response to our Haiti Clothing Drive! Our loyal customers have donated hundreds of bags of clothing for men, women and children in response to our Haiti Clothing Drive. We are so grateful to have such giving clients willing to help others during this desperate time of need.
A new edition of the AW Style Guide has been published-The Shirt Style Anatomy.
Prepidemic Magazine, an online magazine for the contemporary gentleman has let their world know about our expanded Thomas Mason elite fabric selection.
They gave us a rave review about our price, quality and ease of ordering online. What can we say other than they are 100% correct.
The modern dress shirt has come a long way, after it took shape and developed at the end of the nineteenth century, during Victorian times. Throughout history the dress shirt has been modernized with different details; the breast pocket introduced last. The standard modern shirt can be as diverse as choice and taste, and its style can be altered to ones liking. There are many elements that make up the dress shirt anatomy, but every classic dress shirt includes: a back, yoke, a front, plackets, cuffs, a collar, and hem. It is imperative to know the anatomy of a dress shirt (both terms and definitions) and not just something you simply pull on and off your head.
Collar Base: (or collar stand) is the band of fabric sewn into the neckline of a dress shirt, which the collar attaches to.
The crew at Cool Hunting asked us to measure and shirt up their product tester employee. As you see, we passed and exceeded their expectations by a long shot.
Cool Hunting is a daily update on ideas and products in the intersection of art, design, culture and technology, and features weekly videos that get an inside look at the people who create them.
We’re getting hotter and hotter as we have stretched our style all the way to the West Coast. Click here to see the video news segment of 2010 Fashion Trends from KCAL9/CBS Los Angeles. How exciting! Thank you CBS Los Angeles!
Follow up article: Finding The Best And Coolest Clothes For 2010:
What a tremendous response we have received from our customers! Our bins are overflowing with clothing for those affected in Haiti by the recent earthquakes.
We have decided to extend the clothing drive until the end of this month. All those who donate will be entitled to a credit to their next Alexander West purchase.
Pictured above: Mathew Hoffman caught wearing an Alexander West custom dress shirt on the set of Hollyscoop’s broadcast show. Hoffman is part of the Hollyscoop cast, an online magazine focused on fashion and up-to-minute entertainment news. Our celebrity client list is growing by leaps and bounds!
You have now officially been elected the President of the AlexanderWest “Shirt of the Month Club”…..Well, actually Selectism- A Men’s Online Daily Magazine for Fashion, Footwear, Lifestyle and Design Culture has just elected you.
The fashion tab of the Titel Media Sites, Selectism, regarded the suave membership benefits of being a member of our club. The bottom line? 12 CUSTOM shirts per year. Click here to view the “Shirt of the Month” page. Each custom quality dress shirt knocking on your door giving you new style and fit confidence each month. Click here to see the article.
Last week Details.com was hot on the street doing “tweak” make-overs. “Sunday” was seriously hooked up from shirt to shoe by Details; with yours truly, Alexander West featured as the the shirt upgrade. Check it out here.
Out with the vintage print tee and in with the Alexander West dress shirt under the blazer. A minor tweak for you could be a something as subtle as a vintage belt buckle, a new bag or stylish new eyeglass frames.
Alexander West was recently in the spotlight on Gear Patrol-The definitive resource for the ever-evolving man. This online magazine features tips and tools of the trade for the hip, sophisticated man of the 21st century.
Check out NYLON Guys Magazine January 2010 issue! In it NYLON mentions new clothing available on its nylonguysmag.com website; including Alexander West shirts! NYLON Guys Magazine focuses on the new trends and new technology; click here to check it out!
Originating from the 1920’s, pattern and design of a shirt plays a key role in having great style and sending out the right message. Shirts have different patterns, such as solids, stripes and checks. An idea to keep in mind is that the shirt pattern will enhance the wearers look.
Solids are the classic multi-purpose shirts which can be worn in both formal and casual settings. Depending on its color it can be worn in a board room or a club.
Getting ready for our fitting appointment with Steve Forbes. Will be showing our Thomas Mason and our new collection of Alumo fabrics. 2009-07-15
Staple refers to the length of cotton fiber. Long staple fiber ranges between 1¼” to 2¼” and they are stronger, expensive and luxurious. 2009-06-21
Pima Cotton – Grown in Pima County, Arizona, it rivals the Egyptian version, and is considered by some to be finer (1 ½” staple length). 2009-06-18
Egyptian Cotton – Usually used in ultrafine broadcloth shirts (in addition to bed sheets). Egyptian cotton was originally grown along th ... 2009-06-18
