Frilled High Neck Striped Cotton Shirt - OEM

The Chana Shirt from Hartford in brown stripes, described as universally flattering and endlessly versatile, with a streamlined silhouette, a high frilled neck and frilled buttoned cuffs, listed at 139 GBP with three of five sizes in stock. It is worth beginning with the chest, because this is one of the few charts in this run to measure it directly and the result is large. Pit to pit runs 54, 55, 56, 57 and 58 centimetres, stepping one centimetre at every step, which is perfect. Doubling gives about 42.5 to 45.7 inches around, and against bodies of roughly 31 to 39 inches the ease runs from about 11.5 inches at a size 1 down to about 6.7 inches at a size 5. That is a fall of nearly five inches across the same garment. It is worth then setting that against the fourth bullet, which says fits true to size. Those two cannot both be right. Eleven and a half inches of chest ease is a loose shirt and six and a half is a regular one, and if the shirt is true to size at the small end it cannot be true to size at the large end, because they are not the same shirt in feel. It is worth then turning to the sleeve, which is where this page becomes the most precise in the run. It runs 57, 57, 57.5, 58 and 58. The page measures in half centimetres, which no other page in this run does, and it uses that precision to show that the sleeve grows one centimetre across the whole range, and not at all on the first and last steps. It is worth saying why the halves matter: on every frozen column this run has found, there was no way to tell whether the freeze was real or whether it was rounding from halves the page had chosen not to print. This page prints halves elsewhere, so a zero here is a real zero. The reference is the Chana Shirt. Dongguan Bafinasa Garments Co., Ltd. develops comparable shirts on OEM and ODM terms, from cloth and stripe development to retail or FBA ready packing. We publish this as a development reference and build your own version of it, and we do not supply the branded original or reproduce anyone else's label.

Key Features

• A chest measured directly as pit to pit, grading a perfect 1 cm per size. See the note below
• About 4.85 in less chest ease at a size 5 than at a size 1, against a bullet saying fits true to size. See the note below
• Measurements published to half a centimetre, the most precise chart in this run. See the note below
• A sleeve growing 1 cm across five sizes, with zeros at both ends. See the note below
• A size conversion published, from 1 to 5 through to XS to XL. See the note below
• 100% cotton as stated, with no blend and no weight. See the note below
• Machine wash at 30 degrees and do not tumble dry, two clauses. See the note below

Customisable Options

• Cloth: a 100% cotton shirting to the reference, with the weight in grams per square metre stated, or an organic cotton poplin, or a cotton and linen blend, or a yarn-dyed oxford, or a brushed cotton, or a cotton and silk blend, each quoted separately
• Stripe: a brown stripe to the reference, with the stripe width, the spacing and the repeat stated, or a narrower stripe, or a wider stripe, or a contrast collar stripe, or a placed stripe, or a plain dyed cloth, each quoted separately
• Neck: a high neck with frills to the reference, with the neck circumference and the frill depth stated, or a classic collar, or a band collar, or a pussy bow, or a V neck, each quoted separately
• Cuffs: buttoned cuffs with frills to the reference, with the cuff depth and the button count and size stated, or a plain buttoned cuff, or a single button barrel cuff, or a French cuff, each quoted separately
• Fit: a streamlined silhouette to the reference, with the chest and waist both measured and graded, or a relaxed fit, or an oversized fit, or a fitted shape with darts, each quoted separately
• Closure: a button down front to the reference, with the button count, size and spacing stated, or a concealed placket, or a popover placket, or a snap placket, each quoted separately
• Cloth weight, stripe width, spacing and repeat, chest, waist and hip measurements, neck circumference and frill depth, cuff depth, button count, size and spacing, sleeve and length grading, shrinkage figures, size set, colour development, private label and care labelling

Specifications

Size Chart as Published by the Reference

The pit to pit figures are flat half measures taken with the shirt laid down, doubling to 108, 110, 112, 114 and 116 cm around, or 42.52 to 45.67 in. Against bodies of roughly 31 to 39 in, the ease at the chest runs from about 11.5 in at a size 1 down to about 6.7 in at a size 5. The pit to pit steps a clean 1 cm at every step, but a size needs about 2.54 cm, so the shirt gets about four and a half inches slimmer in the chest from one end of the range to the other. The sleeve grows only 1 cm across the whole range, with no growth at all on the first and last steps, and the total length grades at half a centimetre per size, the slowest non-zero length grade in this run. No waist, hip or neck measurement is published, and there is no model.

Our Proposed Body Chart

Occasions and Styling

Suits work, smart casual and weekends. A striped cotton shirt with a frilled neck works with trousers or denim and reads as a dressed-up everyday piece.

Production and Quality Control

The reference publishes three measurements for all five sizes, grades its chest perfectly at every step, measures to half a centimetre throughout, which no other page in this run does, publishes a size conversion from its numeric sizes to letter sizes, which few pages in this run do, gives a single-fibre composition with no blend, names its neck and its cuffs and their trim, names its closure, states its care with a temperature and a drying instruction, states the country of manufacture and names the style number, and carries six photographs. It gives no cloth weight, no waist, no hip, no neck circumference, no frill or cuff depth, no stripe width, spacing or repeat, no button count, size or spacing, no shrinkage figure, no model and no certification, and its sleeve barely grows across the range. Three things follow: a bullet claiming true to size that the page's own numbers contradict, a chart precise enough to prove that a frozen step is real, and a chest that loses nearly five inches of ease from end to end.

Eleven point five, and that is the first thing, and it is worth saying where it comes from before saying what it means. The chart publishes pit to pit, which is the flat measure across the chest from one armhole to the other, and it is the one column on this page that most pages in this run leave out: most measure a waist or a length and say nothing about the chest. It runs fifty four, fifty five, fifty six, fifty seven and fifty eight centimetres, stepping one centimetre at every step, which is as clean as any column this run has measured. Doubled, that is one hundred and eight to one hundred and sixteen centimetres around, or about forty two and a half to forty five and a half inches. Against bodies of roughly thirty one to thirty nine inches, the ease runs from about eleven and a half inches at a size one down to about six and a half at a size five. It is worth checking that against the relationship this run has been testing, because it holds here and it is worth noting that it holds at the chest as well as at the waist. One centimetre of flat measure is about four fifths of an inch around, and a size needs about two inches, so about one and a fifth inches of ease are lost per size, and over four steps that is about four and a half inches. Measured end to end it is four and eight tenths. It is worth then setting that against the fourth bullet, which says fits true to size. It is worth being blunt about this, because it is the cleanest contradiction of its kind this run has found. This run has met true to size before and has had to say that it cannot be tested, because the page gives no numbers to test it against. This page gives the numbers. And they say that the shirt has nearly eleven and a half inches of chest ease on a small person and six and a half on a large one. Those are not the same shirt. Eleven and a half inches of chest ease is a loose, easy shirt, and six and a half is a regular one, and the same garment cannot be both true to size at one end and true to size at the other, because true to size means one thing. It is worth then adding the second word, from the description, which says streamlined silhouette. Streamlined against eleven and a half inches of chest ease at the smallest size is a stretch, and the run notes it as it has noted every shape word that sits awkwardly against its own chart. It is worth then placing this in the run's tally, because the tally is now long enough to state. This run has now tested four fit claims against the numbers on the same page: a relaxed fit on one knit, a relaxed fit on another, this true to size, and a relaxed fit on a coat in this same batch. Three of the four were contradicted by the page that made them. One was not. So the run will say what it can now support: a fit word on a product page is a statement about how the brand would like the garment to be thought of, and it is right about one time in four.

Fifty seven, fifty seven, fifty seven point five, fifty eight, fifty eight, and that is the second thing, and it is worth noticing the halves first, because they are the interesting part. This page measures to half a centimetre. Its sleeve reads fifty seven point five. Its length reads seventy three point five, seventy four point five, seventy five point five. No other page this run has read does that: every other chart works in whole centimetres. It is worth then saying what that precision buys, because it answers a question this run has been unable to answer for its whole length. Every time the run found a frozen column, there were two possible explanations and no way to choose between them. Either the measurement genuinely did not change, or the page had rounded, so that a genuine half centimetre of growth from fifty seven to fifty seven point five had been printed as a flat fifty seven. This run has said repeatedly that it cannot tell which, and has said so on garment after garment. This page settles it, because it prints halves when there are halves to print. So the zero on the first step and the zero on the last step of this sleeve are real zeros. The sleeve does not grow at all between a size one and a size two, and it does not grow at all between a size four and a size five. It is worth then saying what the sleeve does do, which is very little. Across five sizes, from an extra small to an extra large, it grows one centimetre in total: fifty seven to fifty eight. And in the same range the chest grows eight centimetres around. So the body of the shirt gets wider at roughly eight times the rate that the arm gets longer. It is worth saying why that cannot be right, and the run has said it before but it bears saying once more on a garment this precise: people who are larger are also taller, on average, and an extra small to an extra large range spans a good deal of height, so the arm should grow by several centimetres, not one. It is worth adding the third column, because it completes the picture and it is the most surprising of the three. The length grades perfectly, stepping half a centimetre at every step, which is the only perfect column on the page besides the chest, and it is also the slowest non-zero length grade in this run. Most garments grade a length at one or two centimetres a size. This one grades at half. So the shirt grows two centimetres longer from the smallest size to the largest, and eight centimetres wider around the chest, and one centimetre longer in the arm.

One to extra small, and that is the third thing, and it is worth giving the page its due, because it is rare. The size tab publishes a conversion: one is an extra small, two a small, three a medium, four a large, five an extra large. It is worth saying why this matters more here than it would elsewhere. The sizes on this garment are numbers, and a number on its own tells a customer nothing at all: a size three could be anything. This run has read many pages that sell in numeric sizes and do not say what the numbers mean, and a customer on those pages is guessing. This page tells them. And it is the only garment in this batch to publish a conversion, and one of a handful in this run. It is worth then turning to what the page measures and does not, and the neck is the one that stands out. The bullets say high neck with frills, and the description calls it high-frilled, and there is no neck measurement anywhere. It is worth saying why that omission bites harder than most, because this is the shape of a rule the run has been recording. A frilled high neck is a collar that stands up and closes around the throat, and the measurement that decides whether it works is the circumference of the neck it has to close around. The frill is the decoration and the neck is the fit, and the page describes the decoration and omits the fit. It is worth setting that beside the run's list, which is now long: pintucks down a bodice with no waist under them, a twist with no circumference at the twist, an empire seam with nothing under the bust, pleats on a skirt with no hip beneath them, and now frills on a neck with no neck. The trim gets a sentence and the body it sits on gets none. It is worth noting too that the frills appear twice, at the neck and at the cuffs, and the cuffs are buttoned, and there is no cuff depth, no button count and no button size. It is worth then taking the stripe, because it is the same story. The bullet says brown striped, and the title says brown stripes, and there is no stripe width, no spacing and no repeat. It is worth noting that this run has now met thirteen patterns named on a page and not one of them has carried a dimension, and a stripe is the easiest of all to measure, since it is a width and a gap. It is worth closing on the two things this page does well, because it does more than most in this batch. The composition is one hundred per cent cotton with nothing blended in, which is complete. And the care label says machine wash at thirty degrees and do not tumble dry, which is two clauses, a temperature with a number, and a drying instruction, and that is the best care label in this batch. It is worth noting the price at which that arrives: one hundred and thirty nine pounds, the cheapest garment in the batch, while the two hundred and seventy five pound trouser in the same batch says hand wash cold and nothing about drying. Every bulk shipment gets a measurement report against your approved chart.

Optional upgrades include grading the chest at the 2.54 cm that matches a full size step so the ease holds across the range, grading the sleeve and the total length at a rate that matches real height growth, publishing the waist, the hip and the neck circumference, quoting the cloth weight in grams per square metre, giving the stripe width, the spacing and the repeat, naming the frill depth, the cuff depth and the button count, size and spacing, adding a shrinkage figure to the label, organic cotton poplin, cotton and linen, yarn-dyed oxford, brushed cotton and cotton and silk, narrower, wider, contrast collar and placed stripes and plain dyeing, classic collar, band collar, pussy bow and V neck, plain, single button and French cuffs, concealed, popover and snap plackets, relaxed, oversized and darted fits, size set, colour development, private label, hangtag and care labelling.

Pre-production sample approval, in-line inspection during cutting and sewing, and a final AQL inspection before packing, with measurement reports and photos shared before shipment.

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