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It should be so unhurried to find the perfect button-down shirt. All you're asking for is good fabric, a critical fit, seams that are pucker-free and buttons that don't fall off before you even get home from the keep, right?

So why is it that if you're a woman, the shirt inevitably gaps at the bustline, and if you're a guy, the sleeves or neck never honestly fit just so? Then there are the issues of cleaning: When the shirt shrinks, those dreaded puckers pop up, the garment is a wrinkled disarrangement after drying, and the color fades - or if white, yellows.

Clothing designers and manufacturers have thrown themselves at this outcome, and we're happy to report that there have been improvements lately on a number of these fronts.

Props in the women's subdivision go first and foremost to Rochelle Behrens, cq cq a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist cq who turned her heed to matters of clothing after tiring of the dreaded bustline gap she had in her daily habit of suits worn with button-down shirts. The product she introduced a year ago, The Shirt ( the-shirt.com ), cq has several private buttons on the placket that keep the blouse fastened, an invention both simple and imaginative. There are 10 buttons on up the front of her designs, compared with seven or eight on a normal mate's shirt. The Shirt became a big hit after being touted by Oprah Winfrey as a ''must-have" for 2011, and retailers like Molly's of Denver are carrying the designs, which grass on for about $95. ''It's not the most expensive shirt we sell, but it's very popular because women like the fit," says believe in owner Molly Broeren.

Source: San Jose Mercury News

by JK Parkin

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