Fit and quality

I went down the road of looking for higher quality shirts and what I learned along the way may help. First, the quality issue. Shirts would last me about three months and buying these and other brands--which felt like they were made of thicker material, didn't help. I wrote the date on the tail in sharpie and three months later I noticed wear around the cuff and collar. Switching brands did not help. I was fit to be tied over this issue, I did not want to pay any price for a shirt that lasted for three months of weekly wear. Then I ran across this link [...] and discovered that the dryer was a big part of the issue. Don't dry your shirts longer than 10 minutes to get much better life out of them. If you are not buying permanent press, don't have them dry-cleaned. Wash them yourself on the delicate or hand-wash cycle--or just hand-wash them--and have the dry cleaner press them. This is going to give you the greatest amount of life out of a shirt.That said, I feel there is a compelling quality and feel difference to these shirts. I've gotten positive comments on these. So it all comes down to what you are willing to pay and whether what I just said matters to you. Amazon is an inexpensive place to shop for most things, but there are cheaper ways to buy these shirts. That won't bring the price down to what you would pay for Arrow or other off the rack brands, but if you want this quality, there are deals to be had.Now for fit. When I started down this road I could never find a shirt that fit me. I am thin and tall and that just isn't what most manufacturers make--which says loads about what they can sell I guess. Jos A. Bank didn't make a slim fit back then and I even went so far as to have some of them tailored before I left for something less expensive, and higher quality--which is before I learned not to dry them so long. I never approached nirvana on the quality for cost issue, but other manufacturers did have slim fit that at least removed the need to tailor. Jos A. Bank now has slim fit and they fit better than any other.