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- December 07, 2009
For every reason, season and time, Houston’s own Hamilton Shirts has a button-down built just for him. This season, the elegant gentleman’s bespoke shirt maker steps into the ready-to-wear arena with its new 1883 collection, named for the year that the oldest family-run firm in Houston was founded. The six easy, wearable styles range from four-button pullovers to short-sleeved dress shirts, often with retro details, with three to five fabric options each ($165 to $175). The cool, versatile fabrics have that casual, right-out-of-the-dryer-with-a-few-wrinkles vibe, too. And for occasions when you’re pressed to impress, blow your wad on Hamilton’s most luxurious shirting fabric yet: the new Platinum collection by Thomas Mason. Through an exclusive arrangement with this lauded English mill, Hamilton is able to order hundreds of Thomas Mason’s Egyptian cotton fabrics, in yarn counts up to 300 (the highest on the market), in small two-meter quantities — which means its doubtful you’ll see your custom $435 to $695 shirt coming and going. 5700 Richmond Ave., 713.264.8800; hamiltonshirts.com. Laurann Claridge