Starting at $79, Spier & Mackay has hundreds of materials to choose from and allows you to hand-select every element of your shirt — collars, cuffs, buttons, pockets, and monograms.

Monograms may have you thinking of your mother's "fancy" napkins, kickass royal crests, and other dated, preppy, and overly-precious items of the past, but it doesn't have to be that way.

The collar on this one is too loose and on that one the cuffs are too tight. Unless you’re perfectly proportioned in every way, finding a button-down dress shirt off the rack can be an unending ...

Go with: A business appropriate white broadcloth with a crisp spread collar, one button barrel cuffs, an angled chest pocket, and a light blue monogram on the left cuff. Polo Ralph Lauren Get it ...

THE MONOGRAM HAS GOTTEN a bad rap. ... Well-to-do Japanese men even started placing their letters on the collars of their shirts, the equivalent of stapling a hundred-dollar bill to your forehead.

The shirt detail most identifiable as an element of the douchebag’s workday uniform is the white collar on a blue shirt. Let’s instead declare the monogrammed cuff an unfortunate signifer of ...