IHSH-21-BLU - 10oz Selvedge Chambray Work Shirt - Blue
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Picked this bad boy up second hand the other day. Been wanting it for a while, as I think it's basically the platonic ideal of a chambray shirt, since the IH work shirt pattern is so good and it also has great triple needle details. Sadly, I hadn't realized the seller had cut off the chain stitch runoff which is a favorite detail of mine, but eh, that's how it goes.
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Just wondering if this shirt shrinks from washing, or if anyone's tried putting it in the dryer to try and shrink it? I find that I'm usually between sizes for most IH shirts: small is sometimes too tight in the chest/shoulders and medium is too long in the length for wearing untucked. Hoping to be able to size up to a medium but shrink it in length.
On another note, I'm not sure if there is a function in the forum to search within threads? I wanted to search for the keyword "shrink" but don't seem to see a way to do so (other than searching the entire forum as a whole)
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@FireGX said in IHSH-21-BLU - 10oz Selvedge Chambray Work Shirt - Blue:
On another note, I'm not sure if there is a function in the forum to search within threads? I wanted to search for the keyword "shrink" but don't seem to see a way to do so (other than searching the entire forum as a whole)
click on the magnifying glass, this will give you the option of clicking on the cog to bring up advanced search, containing amongst others a filter to search within titles and posts, as well as the ability to limit your search to certain categories
You can also refine your search once you have the initial search results
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@FireGX I found this shirt to come in a bit with washing. I've only hand washed in cold water so you may get more luck with a hot wash.
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@FireGX said in IHSH-21-BLU - 10oz Selvedge Chambray Work Shirt - Blue:
On another note, I'm not sure if there is a function in the forum to search within threads? I wanted to search for the keyword "shrink" but don't seem to see a way to do so (other than searching the entire forum as a whole)
To add to @Tago-Mago 's answer....
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Hey guys!
I've been wearing this one a lot lately and so I have washed it cold twice recently and I put it on today and I was super surprised about the sleeve length. This was the first long sleeve I put on after some short sleeved summer shirts and maybe I didn't notice it so much before, but compared to other long sleeves, this ones got short sleeves. I compared it to 2 IH denim work shirts I have and its a full 3cm shorter.
Is that an issue for anyone else?
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@BalticBob are they significantly shorter than the chart we published from the run you bought this from?
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@Alex I bought this one in March 2023, so I not sure if there was a measurement update since then but the sleeve length is now 58cm and it should be, according to the chart in this thread, 62cm.
For comparison, washed in the same way, my IH-338-BLK sleeve length is 62cm and my IHSH-75 is 61,5cm but that was is quite a bit older than the 338 and the 21.
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There have been several measurement updates since then, yes. I think at this point, after several washes too, it maybe too hard to say. Generally, howerver, the reason we publish specific charts run to run, product to product is to clearly inform people of size discrepancies, so its not surprising in and of itself that this shirt has longer/shorter sleeves than that shirt.
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@Alex Yes I expected there were updates to measurements but I can't find the run specific ones anymore
I always wash it carefully and it's the only IH shirt I have which now has shorter sleeves but as you say maybe this is just an issue for this specific run and won't affect others. This was one of my favourite shirts, I'll have to get one with longer sleeves for next summer!
What's funny about this situation is that I had a Buzz Rickson's chambray where the sleeves became too short, and I replaced that shirt with this one and now it's sleeves are too short
Does chambray tend to shorten in length over time? Based on my IHSH-75 I would say demin does not but 2/2 chambray shirts have done this.
