Charles Tyrwhitt

The service I received here was quite simply some of, if not the best, I’ve ever had from a retailer. They couldn’t do more for me.
Yes of course they’re there to make a sale, but at no point did I feel any pressure to buy. Looking for a decent shirt for the wedding of friends of mine, after a quick measuring with tape and being presented with their ‘tester shirts’ (you don’t try on the ones you’d buy, these are to find out which fitting suits you best) I was shown to their fitting rooms.
After trying on a few and deciding on a style, it was over to the shelving and they brought down some options. I ended up with a lovely crisp shirt for just shy of £35.
For the level of attention I received I was expecting it to cost three times that price. I left with a smile on my face and you know what? They’ve hooked me as a return customer now. I’ll gladly spend my money where they treat customers with such regard.

Best place to get your white crisp cotton shirt. They have many different sizing and fittings which includes the size of your neck, the length of your sleeves, the different styles of collar, french cuff/​single cuff and how slim fit you want your shirt to be. The quality for a £30 shirt is miles ahead of what Thomas Pink and other competitors are offering at north of £100. Many of their jackets are half/​fully lined with functioning button holes which are very hard to find for the price they are charging in this day and age.
The customer service is very friendly too!

Oh dear, dear me — I’m not quite sure what happened! I bought six shirts from this branch of Charles Tyrwhitt. Let’s just say that the fine weave and tailoring of these shirts is putting the rest of my wardrobe — the battered Barbour-​copy, the worn chinos — a bit in the shade.
King Street is nicely set up to allow comparison shopping between Charles Tyrwhitt, Thomas Pink and T.M. Lewin all just a few doors from each other, with House of Fraser on nearby on Deansgate. (Plus, a bunch of cutting-​edge fashion stores that you will need to ask someone else about.) By a process of elimination, Pink’s sale prices were still very steep by my standards, T.M. Lewin didn’t look ‘weekend’ enough for me, so Tyrwhitt it was. I actually know the Tyrwhitt name quite well as I previously lived in the stately home headquarters of a educational charity and this Tyrwhitt seemed to have cornered the shirt market for all the executive and wannabe executive fellow residents of mine.
Customer service from the young lady and then mainly from an Israeli guy was top notch. I was measured up, and advised on my size and the type of fit that would suit me best, and tried on a shirt to double-​check the fit. The other main advice was that the ‘easy iron’ label on about half the shirts referred not to some sort of chemical coating. Instead, these shirts are low-​maintenance because of the finer weave. I was told that all Tyrwhitt shirts are 100% cotton, but within that, basic shirts are made in Egypt, whereas ‘easy iron’ shirts are from Portugal, Spain, France and so on. I decided on one white shirt. I was advised that both poplin and herringbone, despite being the lightest and heaviest fabrics, both need a lot of ironing. So I took the advice that a white twill shirt was what I needed. I look forward to the prospect of wrinkle-​free shirts without ironing and will report back with an update on whether these shirts deliver on this promise and how hardwearing they are.
I decided to go for all ‘easy iron’ shirts priced at up to £28 or so in the sales, versus £18 sale price for regular shirts. However, perhaps due to me buying six shirts at once, the sales assistant not only knocked the price down from £28 to £25, but also threw in a £10 voucher, so maybe I will go back for some cufflinks!
Especially in the sales, I think you owe it to yourself to check out Tyrwhitt. This is for formal shirts, and also relaxed shirts which are still fairly square. Plus suiting and various overcoats and formal accessories — belts, cufflinks, ties etc. Very good quality and value, but not super-​deluxe as if you have money to burn and want shirt-​tails down to your knees, Thomas Pink is definitely an option. One thing is that even the informal shirts here are not at all loud. So I am thinking I maybe still need a couple of shirts from Boden or somewhere.
Anyway, one type place I will definitely be wearing my new shirts is Manchester’s fine dining venues such as Cicchetti. I will now walk in with my head held high and no longer fear being kicked to the kerb by the maitre’d!