<p>To hijack thread a bit, now that my 6’-1" son has stopped growing - where’s a good place to get him slimmer (but not too pricey!) dress shirts? He says most of his long sleeved shirts don’t really fit that well and he seems to constantly need to look at least business casual.</p>
<p>Short/slender H also needed slimmer dress shirts. “Athletic” fit on the label and some brands work better than others. H now retired but I do know Kohls had the slimmer fit in some brands. I used to bring home several shirts (size 14 1/2 harder to find) of various brands for him to try on (couldn’t make him shop). </p>
<p>Howcum they make it so hard for small men and large/tall women to find clothes??? For dressy pants and jackets Men’s Wearhouse had clothes for the short, slim adult. Tall, slim son found JCPenney’s suits- thank goodness for separate pants and jackets!</p>
<p>zoozer- your little boy is no longer that little, I thought he might still be in elementary school and appropriate age clothing was a chore. Not so. With luck your son won’t care that much about what he wears and anything that fits at all will work.</p>
<p>I buy most of my son’s dress shirts online. Many places have slim fits and the best part…non iron ones!</p>
<p>[Men’s</a> Apparel: slim fit shop | Banana Republic](<a href=“Banana Republic”>Banana Republic)</p>
<p>You think 30/34s are hard to find, try finding 29/36s!! And you know what? Not all 29s fit the same, despite the number. We have found them ranging from 281/2 up to 31 1/2. Son buys pants online and sends about half of them back. </p>
<p>For slim fitting dress shirts, banana republic works well for son – he can get slim cut talls which are hard to find. Fortunetly we have a banana republic outlet near us and the slim talls often show up on the sale racks.</p>
<p>We’ve got Banana Republic nearby, maybe I’ll take son during Thanksgiving break - but not on Friday!</p>
<p>What has your MD said about the stretch marks? S also has them at 6’6’’. I’ve seen them on basketball players. Is it just a rapid growth thing??</p>
<p>S1 is 5"11, 125 lbs., 14 1/2 neck, 35 sleeve, ideally a 28W/34L. 30W is way too big, even with a belt. We also found “skinny” jeans look normal on him. </p>
<p>Kohl’s has a decent selection of fitted/athletic build dress shirts. </p>
<p>mathmom, the official work uniform isn’t jeans and a geek t-shirt?</p>
<p>Other kid Counting Down. He’s talking to somebody from the State Department tomorrow. It’s not an official interview, but he figures he needs to look nice. My math guy wears cargo shorts and t-shirts to work. We’ve got Kohls here too.</p>
<p>The doctor has never said anything about the stretch marks, but we’ve never thought to ask either.</p>
<p>We ordered 30W, 34L jeans from Kohl’s, and similar sized khakis from J.Crew.</p>
<p>For shirts, I’ve had good luck calling Lands’ End and LLBean and asking for actual garment sizes for shirts and sweaters. Also, ordering shirts sized by neck and sleeve length has proven a more successful strategy than ordering smalls or mediums. The neck size doesn’t matter that much if the guy isn’t going to be wearing a tie, and this allows buying a shirt with a sleeve length that is long enough.</p>
<p>I know I got my stretch marks when I gained 25 pounds and 5 inches in one year, shooting up from under 5 feet to 5’5" and from under 100 to 125 between 6th & 7th grade. Got stretch marks then & they are still with me some decades later!</p>
<p>We have had threads (I started a few) about clothing for thin young men. Pay attention to brands and what styles and cuts fit your young man best. As was posted earlier, they do NOT fit the same with different styles and different brands. S likes to ask salesclerks who are built similarly to him where they buy their clothing & pays attention to their responses. We did spend a considerable amount of energy walking the entire mall & trying on a LOT of clothing to figure out what worked best for S. He’s happy we did & now he can buy things on-line with confidence. There is ONE style and size of Banana Republic Khaki’s that fit him nicely. There are also a few slim cut styles and brands of shirts that he knows that he’s pleased with.</p>
<p>Fortunately for us, until he started working after his JR year of college, he was happy to live in cargo shorts and tshirts. That was a very inexpensive & comfortable wardrobe. D at a BR size 00 is also a challenge to fit. :)</p>
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<p>However, neck size implies a chest and waist size in typical US dress shirt sizing.
[US</a> standard clothing size - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“U.S. standard clothing size - Wikipedia”>U.S. standard clothing size - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>For example, a 14.5" neck size implies a 36" chest and 30" waist in typical men’s sizes. When young men (university or high school age) wear dress shirts, it is very common to see them wearing dress shirts that are too large, especially in the waist and abdomen area.</p>
<p>We have had good luck in the “young men’s” departments at Kohl’s and JC Penneys.</p>
<p>My boys wear lovely clothes, all from eBay. Gap, J Crew, Neimans, . . . . Particularly when they’re growing quickly I don’t get why anybody would buy new. The only down side is not everything will work out. I probably keep about 95% of what I buy; the rest goes to Salvation Army or to friends. There’s a wonderful selection of clothing in great shape and you don’t even have to leave the house.</p>