Blank Label Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Co-Created Dress Shirts
Who / What is Blank Label?
How does it work?
What type of fabrics are your dress shirts made of?
Where are your dress shirts made?
Do you have any wrinkle-free fabrics available?
Do you make dress shirts for women?
Are your fabrics from animal sources?
What is the thread count of your fabrics?
Can you make me a shirt with a wider collar?
Can you make me a collarless shirt?
If I send you some fabrics, will you make me some shirts?
I have a favorite shirt I would you like to copy and
duplicate, can you do it?
Sizes
I need special sizing. Do you accept customized measurements?
Do you have short sleeve options? There doesn’t seem
to be one on the Dress Shirt application.
I don’t know my measurements. What do you advise?
I gave the wrong size. How can I change my order?
How does Slim Fit change the dimensions of my shirt?
Can you accommodate bigger sizes?
Shipping
Where do you ship?
What’s the normal delivery wait?
How much is shipping and handling?
I gave the wrong shipping address.
I could not complete the transaction, it says International
shipping disabled? What did I do wrong?
I want to check the status of my order. Can you provide
me with a tracking number?
Payment
How do I pay for my shirt?
I don’t have a credit card, can I pay with Paypal?
I want to cancel my order. How do I do that?
Returns, Refunds and Cancellations
The specifications of this dress shirt are not to what
I ordered. What should I do?
The shirt doesn’t fit. What should I do?
Can I change or cancel my order?
Other Questions
Are gift cards and gift certificates available?
I want to save my shirt designs. How do I do that?
Is my information safe?
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Co-created Dress Shirts
Who / What is Blank Label?
Blank Label is a provider of custom men’s dress shirts, empowering YOU to be the
designer. For more info, please check out Blank Label’s Story.
How does it work?
Design your own custom dress shirt with our dress shirt design application and purchase
your creation starting at $45. Special customization makes the price of the dress
shirt go up, but a decently customized shirt averages at $70.
What type of fabrics are your dress shirts made
of?
We try and update fabric selections every 4 weeks and the fabric types vary depending
on what we think our customers will like and what is available at the fabric markets.
There are 100% cotton
fabrics as well as
polyester cotton blends, ranging from
broadcloth, poplin,
pinpoint and oxford.
We don't have Egyptian, Sea Island or Pima cotton, but we might be able to get it
if you add another zero to how much you want to pay for our shirts ;). But seriously,
high-end luxury fabrics also mean high-end prices which don’t fall into our
mission of making co-created dress shirts available to the individual guy.
Where are your dress shirts made? Where
are your dress shirts made?
Have you ever been to Shanghai? It's a pretty cool place, we'd recommend you visit.
Anyway, that's where our dress shirts are individually-made for you. All from scratch
from tailors who have had their amazing skills passed down from generation to generation.
Yep, they're pretty awesome.
Do you have any wrinkle-free fabrics available?
As a policy, we do not make wrinkle-free or non-iron cotton shirts due to the high
formaldehyde concentration used in its production process. We understand that this
means losing customers but we also believe in standing behind our values. Sorry...
Do you make dress shirts for women?
Unfortunately we don't, at least not yet. The core team is a group of stooges, pretty
much hombre dudes who would suck at offering dress shirts to women. But we love
women, and we want to be able to make them happy so offering co-created dress shirts
for women is something we're thinking about all the time.
Are your fabrics from animal sources?
Our fabrics are either 100% cotton or polycotton blends, both of which are not from
animal products. Mmm, that'd be weird.
What is the thread count of your fabrics?
Unfortunately, we do not have that information right now and hope to make that available
soon, but let’s say 1,000 count? Just kidding, but you can trust that we source
quality fabrics.
Can you make me a shirt with a wider collar?
We make Spread / Wide Collars if that helps. But we cannot take specific requests
for collars wider than our Spread Collar option.
Can you make me a collarless shirt?
Why would you not want the collar? Anyhow, we do not have that option available
at this time. But it’s certainly interesting. We add new features every few weeks,
so perhaps we will add that with our next updates.
If I send you some fabrics, will you make me
some shirts?
That’s a neat idea! But unfortunately, it’s a liability on our part to have you
ship things that don’t belong to us. We can’t be responsible for the shipping companies
losing things. Sorry…
I have a favorite shirt I would you like to copy
and duplicate, can you do it?
Ahh, the famous dress shirt you’ve loved all your life. Sadly we cannot duplicate
shirts. We just don’t have that capability at this time, although it would be an
interesting thing to do.
Sizes
I need special sizing. Do you accept customized
measurements?
We do. Just go to the Dress Shirt application. Look for the “[5] Measurements” box
at the bottom right of the Sizing page. Enter your measurements and anything else
specific you want our tailors to know there. If you’re a peculiar body type or have
problems with finding shirts that fit, the more details you put n [5] Measurements,
the more it’ll help our tailors map out a custom sizing profile for you.
Do you have short sleeve options? There doesn’t
seem to be one on the Dress Shirt application.
Yes, we do. All our dress shirts are individually made for you so we can pretty
much do anything with it that you want, including making short sleeves. On the Sizing
Page of the Dress Shirt Application, on the bottom right, look for the “[5] Measurements
box. Please just state there “Short Sleeve”.
I don’t know my measurements. What do you advise?
Find yourself a measure tape, watch instructional videos, make sure the tape is
perfectly horizontally straight and you’re measuring at precisely the right positions.
This sounds like a pain, and we’re not about causing pains.
We don’t encourage self-measuring. There are too many variables that could go wrong
with you measuring yourself.
I gave the wrong size. How can I change my order?
You get your email confirmation, you see something not quite right, you want to
change it. Please email us straight away at sayhi@blank-label.com within 48
hours of ordering to make order changes.
How does Slim Fit change the dimensions of my shirt?
Slim fit provides the same shirt dimensions as classic fit, only that there are
darts on the lower back to bring in a more tapered look.
Can you accommodate bigger sizes?
Unfortunately, we cannot make sizes bigger than XXL with a 18.5 collar and 37-38
sleeve because our tailors do not know how to correctly cut shirts of larger sizes.
Shipping
Where do you ship?
We accept international orders and ship anywhere DHL and TNT goes. That’s quite
a few places… so mostly anywhere where humans are. But we mostly ship anywhere within
the 50 states.
What’s the normal delivery wait?
There are 3 different speeds of delivery you can choose. If you’re Chillin, you can pay $9 for U.S. or $18 for international to get it in 18-20 business days, essentially 4 weeks. If you want Runnin that’s $12 or $21 depending on U.S. or international and gets to you in 12-15 business days. And if you’re really Rushin then you can get it in 8-10 business days for $17 for U.S. or $24 for international.
How much is shipping and handling?
It is $9 for shipping and handling (U.S. Domestic) for the first dress shirt on your order and $5 per shirt after that, so 3 shirts will cost $19 to ship. International shipping starts at $18 for the first shirt, and $3 extra for each shirt added to your order.
I gave the wrong shipping address.
Please just email us ASAP at sayhi@blank-label.com
I could not complete the transaction, it says
International shipping disabled? What did I do wrong?
The shipping address is US by default. You have to change to your country when asked
for your shipping address to enable international shipping options.
I want to check the status of my order. Can you
provide me with a tracking number?
Order, what order? Just kidding. Unfortunately, we do not have that information
readily available at this time. If we shipped out the shirt, we would have emailed
you with the appropriate tracking number.
Payment
How do I pay for my shirt?
We accept credit cards Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover as payment
on our site. We don’t accept cash or check, unless you were able to send it via
carrier pigeon in which case we’d be totally impressed.
I don’t have a credit card, can I pay with Paypal?
At this stage we don’t accept Paypal as a form of payment, ironic because we used
to, but are looking to implement it back into our billing system.
I want to cancel my order. How do I do that?
Given our shirts are individually-made for you and we try to get them to you as
quickly as possible, we as policy only accept cancellations 24 hours after order.
We hope you agree this is fair. We make it easy by simply sending an email to sayhi@blank-label.com and stating the
name and email you ordered with.
Returns and Refunds
The specifications of this dress shirt are not to
what I ordered. What should I do?
Because all our stitching is done by humans and not machines, there is the chance
of human error. If there is a specification error in your design, we will re-make
the shirt and send it out to you at the delivery speed you ordered. Email us at
sayhi (at) blank-label.com to get your re-make.
The shirt doesn’t fit. What should I do?
As you can probably tell from our dress shirt design application, we are about designing
something yourself, really owning it. Custom fit is extremely difficult to do online.
We aim for a good fit the first time, and improving the fit over time with tweaks.
If it doesn’t fit well the first time, we’ll be able to re-make it and send it out
to you at the delivery speed you ordered. Email us at sayhi (at) blank-label.com
to get your re-make.
Can I change or cancel my order?
If you email us within 24 hours, we can probably stop the production of your co-creation,
or make any necessary amendments to the order.
Once we have finished stitching your co-creation, we cannot change or cancel your
order since all our dress shirts are individually made and once we’ve started stitching,
we can’t turn back. Also, it would be wasteful to have an individually made dress
shirt cancelled after it was made.
Other Questions
Are gift cards and gift certificates available?
It is something we plan on rolling out in the summer of 2010.
I want to save my shirt designs. How do I do
that?
Just bookmark your shirt design on your browser. This is a little lame, we’re working
on something better.
Is my information safe?
SAFE SHOPPING with Blank Label. Your credit card information and your personal information
are completely safe with us. Just read our Privacy Policy.