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A Complete Guide to Buying Custom Clothing Online

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Knot Standard

Price: From $495

The Process: Custom software lets you use your webcam to perform a body scan for exact measurements. Or you can follow an online video tutorial and take your measurements with help from a friend.

Specialty: Business suits. The company offers more than 60 styles in a range of fabrics — from a 100 percent worsted-wool navy suit with horned buttons for $495 to suits cut from Italian cotton for $995 — and the most fitting options of any site. Our Italian gray-wool suit fit perfectly, thanks in part to a full-length horsehair canvas jacket lining, which molds to the body over time.

Delivery Time: Three to five weeks

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Proper Cloth

Price: From $85

The Process: Use the expedited “smart size” fitting option to take a few measurements, then simply enter info like weight and height; or use the online video tutorial.

Specialty: Dress shirts made easy. Proper Cloth produces a fitted shirt made from high-end fabrics in a fraction of the typical online self-measuring time. Our handsome Canclini herringbone flannel shirt ($160) wasn’t as precisely tailored as the Trumaker, but it took only about 10 minutes to order.

Delivery Time: Two weeks

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Indochino

Price: From $449

The Process: Online video tutorial

Specialty: Casual suits. Indochino knows how to work a deal (its fabrics are sourced mostly from China instead of Italy to cut costs) and ensure a good fit. After finishing the online-measurement process, we were asked to double-check the waistline because it didn’t fit with past measurements based on men of similar size in its database. They were right. The resulting 100 percent wool Essential suit isn’t made of top-quality cloth, but it fits great.

Delivery Time: Four weeks

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Trumaker

Price: From $98

The Process: A 15-minute fitting with a tailor in your office, then shirts are selected and customized online.

Specialty: Casual business shirts. Trumaker doesn’t offer online measuring (insisting instead on sending a rep to do it in person) and has a stated noncorporate aesthetic for its brand. “Our signature look is refined rugged,” says Lovas, a former Bonobos consultant who left to found Trumaker. The fitting process was fast, not fussy — and resulted in a perfectly fitting 70 percent cotton, 30 percent blue linen chambray shirt (the Faulkner, $185) with our initials monogrammed discreetly on the inside of the collar.

Delivery Time: Four weeks

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Tailor Store

Price: From $229

The Process: Online video tutorial.

Specialty: Light winter coats. Based in Sweden, Tailor Store is expanding into the U.S. Its sleek black Sligo coat (65 percent nylon, 35 percent cotton) is midway in length between a regular jacket and a trench — a versatile option for stormy days. Our coat was a perfect fit, stopping right around the hips.

Delivery Time: Two weeks

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Left Shoe Company

Price: From $595

The Process: 3-D scanning machines in its Los Angeles and New York City shops take a precise rendering of each foot (the company will soon expand with an iPad scanning app and more showrooms).

Specialty: Perfectly sized shoes. Left Shoe offers form-fitting shoes, from oxfords and boots to golf spikes. Our Italian-leather Londra oxfords fit snugly at first but are now our go-to favorite.

Delivery Time: Six weeks

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Kent Wang

Price: From $670

The Process: Trial suits through the mail.

Specialty: Kent Wang sends customers trial suits through the mail, which takes a lot of the guesswork out of measuring. For most customers, the trial suits fit pretty well, so it’s just a matter of making minor tweaks here and there. If you’re in New York City or London, you can also stop by one of Kent Wang’s showrooms, where you can be professionally fitted.

Delivery Time: Four to six weeks

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Black Lapel

Price: From $449

The Process: Online video tutorial.

Specialty: Sometimes you don’t want more options; you just want good options. Black Lapel lets you customize every suit in eighteen different ways, but they’ve also narrowed their fabric options to just 35 – ensuring that you get something great without making you arbitrate between a few dozen shades of navy. They also offer a full canvas construction to repeat customers for a small additional charge.

Delivery Time: About four weeks

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J.Hilburn

Price: From $605

The Process: A 30-minute consultation with a rep in your home or office.

Specialty: If you prefer to do things in person, J.Hilburn has professional trained reps in almost every major city. They can guide you through the customization options, as well as professionally measure you to ensure a perfectly fitting garment every time. Being able to meet with someone also means you can get the advice of a personal stylist, who can advise on what fabrics might work best for you and your lifestyle.

Delivery Time: Four to six weeks

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Luxire

Price: From $60

The Process: Standard sleeve and neck sizes with adjustable “fit types,” or fully custom-made according to body measurements.

Specialty: Most online shirtmakers adjust pre-existing sizes according to your body measurements, but Luxire makes garments completely from scratch. That means they can better account for the subtle nuances in your body’s shape – such as forward-pitched shoulders, or a slightly dropped right arm. They can also hand-stitch the cuffs, collars, and sleeves of a shirt, making the product a little closer to bespoke offerings.

Delivery Time: Two weeks

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MyTailor

Price: From $69

The Process: Provide your own body measurements or be professionally fitted by a tailor.

Specialty: MyTailor is a full custom shirt operation. You can either provide your own body measurements online – like with most online custom clothiers – or wait for one of MyTailor’s reps to measure and fit you when they visit your city. Their fabric selection is as expansive and high-end as any of the traditional bespoke tailoring houses.

Delivery Time: Six weeks

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MTailor

Price: From $69

The Process: Create a body scan using iOS or Android.

Specialty: In one of the more hi-tech processes we’ve seen, MTailor takes customers’ measurements through camera phone scans. To get measured, just do a single spin in front of your camera’s cell phone and MTailor’s software will generate the appropriate numbers. The company claims this is 20 percent more accurate than what professional tailors can provide.

Delivery Time: Three weeks

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Cottonwork

Price: From $45

The Process: Input measurements and customization choices online, and see a preview of your shirt being built in real-time.

Specialty: Cottonwork is a traditional online custom shirtmaker, where you can input your body measurements and build a custom shirt from scratch. They have an online interface that lets you see how the shirt will look as you choose your selections in real-time. If you’re feeling iffy about the measuring process, send the your best fitting shirt and they’ll copy the cut for you.

Delivery Time: Two weeks

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Joe Button

Price: From $99

The Process: Provide measurements of your body or best-fitting shirt

Specialty: Although they have thousands of fabrics, Joe Button also helps makes the fabric selection process easier by narrowing their best materials into tightly edited “collections.” Each collection includes the essential shirts that every modern gentleman should own, as well as the latest colors and styles of that season. Their shirts also have a unique red buttonhole at the bottom, giving their products a nice bit of detailing.

Delivery Time: Three to four weeks

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Rancourt

Price: From $240

The Process: Design your own shoes online by choosing the leather, sole, and details.

Specialty: Customizations aren’t just for suits and shirts. Rancourt allows you to design your own shoes online by choosing the style, leather, sole, and details. All of their shoes are made in Maine using tradition handsewing and Blake stitching construction methods. That means you can easily replace the soles when the bottoms wear down, rather than throwing them out entirely. Choose those customizations well, as these shoes can stay with you for up to a decade.

Delivery Time: Six weeks

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