Men's Paul Fredrick Fashion Brand

A thoughtfully crafted collection of classic menswear. Paul Fredrick was founded over 30 years ago. Originally specializing in dress shirts, their collection has grown exponentially as has their number of satisfied long-term customers. The positioning comes before the history: classic menswear, thoughtfully crafted, a founding more than three decades back, and a single original specialization - the dress shirt - from which the whole collection grew. A men's buyer should read the range that follows as a dress-shirt house that widened, not a general store that happened to stock shirts.

They design, manufacture and directly distribute every item in their collection. No wholesalers. No store fronts. Just great style at everyday prices. The business model is stated as three short negatives and a promise, and it matters to how the clothing should be judged: a house that designs, manufactures and directly distributes every item controls its own specifications end to end, and sells at everyday prices precisely because no wholesaler and no store front takes a margin in between. (The brand's own spelling, used throughout this profile, is Paul Fredrick.)

Eighty-Nine Ways to Fit One Shirt

In regard to dress shirts, they often stock up to 89 unique combinations of sleeve, collar and fit options in a single dress shirt style alone. Making it very likely you are going to find a shirt that fits you. That is the most concrete shopping fact here, and it converts the founding specialization into a method: one style is not one shirt but a matrix - sleeves, collars and fits combined up to 89 ways - so the fitting question is not whether the style suits you but which of its combinations does. They offer only the highest quality items, in the finest fabrics tailored to our exacting specifications, and the house is confident the moment you put one of their dress shirts on, you'll see and feel the comfortable difference of a finely tailored dress shirt.

Today there is more choice out there than ever before. And, every day it increases. They have an eye for style that transcends time but resonates thoroughly in today's world. The 89-combination system sits inside that crowded market deliberately: choice is answered not with more styles but with more fits of the same style, and the style itself is filed as timeless rather than seasonal - an eye for style that transcends time, resonating in today's world.

From Dress Shirts to the Full Wardrobe

In addition to dress shirts, the Paul Frederick brand sell suits, sport coats, outerwear, pants, casual shirts, sweaters, shoes, accessories, and more. The widening list is the second half of the record: suits and sport coats above the shirt, outerwear over both, pants below, then casual shirts and sweaters for the days the dress shirt rests, and shoes and accessories to finish. The collection grew outward from the torso's most fitted garment - the dress shirt, with its 89 combinations - to everything that surrounds it, which is why the fit discipline of the first product is the natural test to apply to the rest.

Reading This Paul Fredrick Record

Read as a buying guide, start where the house started: the dress shirt, in the combination of sleeve, collar and fit that the 89-option matrix exists to find, made to the house's exacting specifications in the finest fabrics. Then build outward through suits, sport coats, outerwear, pants, casual shirts and sweaters, remembering the model's promise - designed, manufactured and directly distributed, no wholesalers, no store fronts, great style at everyday prices. Apparel Search's own dress-shirt guides - the Dress Shirt Influence page and the guide to picking a proper dress shirt - and those routes are linked from this page.

Paul Fredrick, under P in the Men's Fashion Brands directory: classic menswear founded over 30 years ago, dress shirts first, sold direct with up to 89 combinations in a single shirt style. No clean official-site link is available for this brand, so none is listed in References here.

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