How To Tailor A Dress Shirt (WITHOUT Ruining It)

Got this banger from Goodwill for just $9, but let me tell you, it needed some serious love. After some tailoring magic, though, the results are pretty awesome. What's even more awesome is you can use any used $50 sewing machine to do this, so don't think you have to have a super expensive machine to do this. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My Shirts Measurements: .75--2--3--1 Taking off 2 or 3 inches is a MASSIVE amount to take off! It honestly surprised me because if I do that on other shirts it comes out WAY too tight. Goes to show how much work this shirt needed. And even then it wasn't enough! Add another .5 inches since I took off a bit more too. My Dart Measurements: .5--.5--.25--.25--almost gone Those are the measurements I USUALLY use on my dress shirts, but this one needed even more work since it was so bad. Yuck! Add about .5 inches to those measurements to get what I ended up taking off. I seriously just eye-balled it and went for it, it came out great! If it didn't I would have just used a seam ripper and tried again... Sewing Machine Measurements: Straight Stitch Stitch Length - 2.5 Stitch Width - NA Stitch Tension - 3-4 Universal Needle/Polyester thread ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Sewing machines seem intimidating I know but I can’t stress this enough. YOU CAN LEARN HOW TO DO THIS IN A WEEKEND. I’m not kidding. And it will completely change your life and how you feel about yourself just like it has for me. Here's some playlists to get you started.    • The ONLY Sewing Machine Settings You Need ...      • Become A PRO In A WEEKEND (You Think I'm K...      • Jeans, Dress Pants And Chinos Tailoring Tu...      • Dress Shirt Tailoring Tutorials      • T-Shirt Tailoring Tutorials   If you need a recommendation on a solid sewing machine I have some picks below for new ones, but I suggest buying USED for like $60. Facebook Marketplace is a goldmine! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤨Questions? Message me on IG🤨 🔘Instagram: @stylishdtailors 🔘TikTok: @stylishdtailors 🔘Twitter/X: @stylishdtailors 🔘Business inquires ONLY: [email protected] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❇️ Brother XM2701 Sewing Machine - https://amzn.to/4dQcIfR ❇️ Singer M3300 Sewing Machine - https://amzn.to/4nVJ3X6 ❇️ Solid Pair of Scissors - https://amzn.to/4wTbk4v ❇️ Pins For Clothes - https://amzn.to/4dCngjS ❇️ Fabric Measuring Tape - https://amzn.to/3Q8yN18 That’s… literally all you need…👊 DISCLAIMER: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━