Collar stiffener;

Depending on the collar style, a good quality dress shirt has collar stiffeners that can be taken out when you clean or iron your shirt. They are necessary for turn down collars and cutaway collars (spread collars). However, they would be out of place for the soft collar of a button down shirt.

Most collar stiffeners are made of plastic, but some shirt manufacturers offer them in brass. Stiffeners adjust the collar to the proper shape without allowing the collar peaks to stand away from the neck, especially if you wear your dress shirt with a neck tie.

Separated back yoke;

The separated men's back yoke comes from the traditional tailored workmanship of men's apparel. Because every person has shoulders of different heights, you can fit the shirt with a separated back yoke accurate for his individual build.

For manufactured dress shirts, this is a detail that suggests expensive workmanship. You will only get a customized separated back yoke if you buy a custom tailored men's dress shirt.

Correct fitted pattern run;

A high quality men's dress shirt should always have a fitted run of the pattern or stripes.

In other words, the pattern or stripes of the material should match in areas where two pieces of material meet much like the pattern of wallpaper should match where two pieces meet. You should pay special attention to the areas where the sleeves, the yokes, and the cuffs are attached. If you have a men's shirt with an attached button panel you should also pay attention to this very important area. The stripes or checks should always continue as if it were a seamless piece of material at the crossings.

Amount of stitches in a seam;

You can determine the quality of a men's dress shirt by the amount of stitches in a seam.

If the distance from one stitch to the next stitch is small, the seam is more durable. Long distances between stitches are used in manufacturing because they use less thread and result in a faster sewing speed. So, a shirt with a smaller stitch distance will cost more time and money in production, but the seam will have better quality and last longer. A good shirt seam has approximately 8 stitches in 1 centimeter, which is equivalent to 20 stitches in 1 inch.

Felled seams

A good quality men's dress shirt has felled seams, which are seams made by turning under or folding together and stitching the seamed materials to avoid rough edges.

Therefore, you can not see the cutting edge of the fabric if the single parts are sewn together. Cheaper men's dress shirts have a trimmed seam on the cutting edges, which does not look very nice if you turn up your sleeve cuffs because you can see the trimmed seam.

Cotton batiste (cambric );

This is a light weight 1 x 1 weave fabric using fine high quality yarns.

Poplin:

This is a common name for shirt fabric with thicker weft than warp threads. The thicker weft threads give this fabric its characteristic fine horizontal ribbed effect on the surface.

Sea island poplin;

This is the most expensive and finest cotton fabric available.
The use of more threads when weaving this fabric provides its silky-smooth touch. Stripes and checks appear more clearly, and the colors are deeper. Because of this fact, sea island poplin is perfect for flashy patterns.

Oxford;

This is a coarser weaved fabric for soft and wear-resistant men's dress shirts.
In this fabric, the warp threads are connected pair-wise with different coloured weft threads, which results in a surface that appears to consist of small cubes.

Royal oxford;

This is higher quality type of oxford fabric. A men's dress shirt made out of royal oxford has a much softer and silky-smooth touch than a shirt made of regular oxford fabric.

Ribbed Twill;

This fabric has a characteristic diagonal structure. The typical shimmery appearance gives plain colored men's dress shirts an interesting look.

Herringbone twill;

This fabric is strongly related to ribbed twill. The threads are weaved in a diagonal structure for both fabrics. To obtain the typical herringbone effect, weavers change the direction of the structure approximately each centimeter, which creates a zigzag pattern.

Pin-point;

This fabric is a mixture of cotton-poplin and oxford. It is weaved out of long stapled cotton, and only the warp thread is colored as in oxford fabric.

Silk;

This is a very expensive fabric for men's dress shirts. It is a very light material with a cool touch and a distinctive look.