Printed and Embroidered Shirts for Unique Shirts

These days there are many lovely printed and embroidered shirts available in the marketplace for both men and women.  Some of them are quite casual, while others are very elegant and more formal. 

You will have a choice when you are looking at printed and embroidered shirts on whether you want embroidery on the cuffs and collar, or whether you also want embroidery on the body of the shirt, for example on the front placket or back yoke.  You will also have a choice whether you want the embroidery to be in a colour that is complementary to the colours in the shirt or whether you want it to be in a contrasting colour.  You will also have a lot of choice in prints whether you are looking for a specific theme, like Christmas, or a tropical print for example, or let’s say a flower design.

Some of the quality considerations you might want to keep in mind are how the seams and the hem of the shirt are finished.  Good quality printed and embroidered shirts will have seams that are either serged or frenched, which means that they are turned over and stitched with no raw edges visible.  There should also be some interfacing in the placket, colour and cuffs to help the shirt retain its form.  If there is a back yoke to the shirt, the fabric should be doubled.  Many shirts also come with one or two front chest pockets, as well as without.  If you are looking for a formal shirt, you might also want some fitting in the body of the shirt.  You will also want to look carefully at the embroidery to make sure that it is well stitched and the ends have been tied down.

When you are shopping for printed and embroidered shirts you will have a lot of fabrics to choose from.  These shirts are readily available these days in 100% cotton, cotton/poly blends, silks and linen as well as in some of the more hi tech micro fabrics that are so soft and silky on the skin.  You will want to consider the fabric that you choose carefully as it may make your shirt very time consuming to care for.  Sometimes, depending on the dyes used in the printed fabric, the colours will also fade with time or washing, and sometimes even bleed into one another.  A good fabric will have detailed washing instructions, and may even be permanent pressed so that you won’t have to spend a lot of time ironing or caring for the shirt.

No matter what style of printed and embroidered shirts you are looking for, you will be able to find them readily in regular department and specialty clothing stores as well as on the internet through online merchants.  In these days of the internet, you can shop in far away countries and perhaps find better deals and yet still have reasonable delivery times.  Most online store these days also offer secure checkout facilities and have very generous return and refund policies, although you will want to check with each individual merchant.