I bought this shirt based on the great reviews here, especially interested about how the black color stays vibrant after a few washes. I received the shirt, noticed the quality feel from touching the fabric, but was quite disappointed when I realized that the stays were sown into the collar. There are two reasons why I think any decent dress shirt should have removable stays. Firstly, you can remove them so that there is no mark from the stay when you iron the shirt's collar. You can then fit the shirt with quality stainless stays, which greatly improve the look of your shirt. Secondly, the sown-in stays especially if plastic-made - which is the case here -  will break or loose their thickness at some point, basically forcing you to retire the shirt. The fabric felt nice, but I just can't rate a dress shirt with more than two starts if it doesn't sport removable stays.