Buying clothes for an unaverage man

dizziblonde

Have you tried places like Slaters? My incredibly tall fella (taller than those mentioned before!) is a clothes nightmare (and picky with it as well) and it's about our only fall-back option sometimes! Failing that - I can lend you my brother with his knack of washing things so they end up with ridiculously long arms and shrunken other bits!

dibuzz

Gloomendoom wrote: »

If he is following the current trends, trousers shouldn't be a problem...

I've seen plenty of lads like that but luckily none of my sons go for that look.
The other problem I have with him is he will only wear plain dark clothes, if theres any sort of pattern or logo he won't wear it :think:

eleanora_

Try Fat Face - I always find their sleeve lengths generous, and so does my OH, so worth a look

Ad there's still some stuff available in the sale :money:

WhiteHorse

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He is slim-medium build but long in the arms, so if he wears anything bigger than medium to get the cuff length, the body is baggy or vice versa.

Has anyone got any experience of styles, stores or shops that cater for the medium build man with longer than average arms. "or as he calls it baboon monkey arms?".

Ha.

I also have arms like a baboon. No long sleeved shirt from an ordinary shop will fit me.

Go online and check out specialist menswear suppliers. There may even be a specialist shop near you. Try Thomas Pink Ltd for starters.

StevenDr

You can find a range of shirts which are slim and have long arms, but it's difficult to give a precise answer without knowing the neck size. You say he is medium build, so I have given some answers below for medium neck sizes.

15.5 inch neck - TM Lewin do Slim Fit and Fully fitted shirts with an arm length of 36 inches.
16.0 inch neck - Thomas Pink do a Slim Fit with an arm length of 36.3 inches
16.5, 17 and 17.5 inch neck - TM Lewin do Slim Fit shirts with an arm length of 38 inches.

I can't post links because I'm a newbie, but you should be able to find these through Google.

newmumincov

Try Jacamo - they do tops/shirts in "long" fit.
http://www.jacamo.co.uk

Hanky_Panky

Yep - go go gadget arms/legs here too !

For suits etc Next used to do a tailoring service that was not much more than standard to get a suit that fitted. Also for shirts etc try TM Lewin or Charles Tyrwhitt who both do longer sleeves. M&S do the 2" longer ones but even in our massive store they only have a small selection.

Other alternative that I used was get married, have kids then put on 2 stone so that you actually fit the clothes properly !! Wifey not too pleased her 44" chest, 32" waist has morphed into a telly tubby with 46" chest and 38" waist but my daughter says I'm good for hugs !