Pivot Sleeve Shirt

Additional Information

Story

This is quite simply a better men's dress shirt. We started out with a basic task, how could we make a shirt that moved better on a cyclist’s body, but we wound up with something a bit more subtle. A buttondown shirt cut to fit the body better and open up a range of motion constrained by traditional shirt construction. An experiment in form, the Outlier Pivot Sleeve Shirt.

The basic challenge was straightforward, when you lean forward on a bike a buttondown shirt stresses. It pulls uncomfortably taut across the shoulders. The sleeves pull up exposing your wrists to the cold, and the tails pull out of your pants, leaving you either untucked or with a blooming blouse of a shirt. Our solution is the patent-pending Pivot Sleeve, a completely reconstructed buttondown that retains the traditional look and feel of a dress shirt while working equally well both on and off the bicycle.

From the front it looks like a well cut dress shirt. Like a good stage show, the magic takes place in back unseen by most. The underside of the pivot sleeve flows seamlessly into the back of the garment, creating an extra side panel. By removing the rear arm seam you can move your arm forward without restriction. It opens up a whole range of arm motion, move your arms forward or up and your shirt stays in place, cuff at the wrist, no cutting at the shoulders, your shirt tucked in properly. The extra side panel created by the pivot sleeve gives the shirt a strong form, the extra fluff found in most modern dress shirts is gone, this is how a shirt should fit.

To manufacture the shirts we left the friendly confines of Manhattan's garment district and headed across the river to the Gambert Shirt Corp, in Newark, New Jersey. This family owned company has been making nothing but dress shirts for over 75 years and they are true masters of the craft. Single needle tailoring throughout, 16 stitches per inch, cross and lock stitched buttons and an all over fine finish.

Fabric

The result is a sweat resistant, "self-cleaning" fabric. We've poured coffee all over our white shirts just to watch it run right off leaving no mark behind. We've hauled goods around in 100°F weather and found that practically no sweat shows through the shirt, despite our backs being completely wet. It's not sweat proof so occasionally a peep will show through, but when it does it drys out with a swiftness leaving you looking sharp and clean in environments where most people wilt. Our hope is that we've created a hard-wearing, longer lasting shirt that is as comfortable as the best cottons around and looks great from the bike to the office and beyond.

Details

Outlier Blazed Cotton Shirting: Geztner end-on-end weave with Schoeller self-cleaning nanosphere treatment (sourced in Austria and Switzerland)

100% Cotton

End-on-end weave construction: colored warp yarns and white weft yarns

Pivot Sleeve cut: a button down dress shirt with an expanded range of motion

Classic single needle tailoring throughout: 16 stitches per inch and cross-and-lock stitched buttons

High breathability

Sweat resistant

Dirt resistant

Quick drying

Hard wearing

Long lasting

Subtle woven texture and depth: solid color appearance from a distance, intricate pattern up close

Available in Blue, Red, and White

Made at the Gambert Shirt Corporation in Newark, New Jersey

Sizing

Size Chart (in inches)

	Small	Medium	Large	X-Large
Chest Size	36	38	40	42
Neck Size	14.5	15.5	16	16.5
Body Length Front	28	28.5	29.5	30.5
Sleeve Length	33	34.5	35.5	36.5
Chest (Measured Flat Across)	20.75	21	22	23
Waist (Measured Flat Across)	18.75	20	20.5	22.25
Hips (Measured Flat Across)	20.75	22	23	24
Cuff (from button to buttonhole)	8.5	8.75	9.25	9.75
Back Yoke	16.75	17	18	18.25

Colors

No