As you can see, for me personally (at 6'1 tall and 160 lbs.), both fits work pretty well. The Super Slim is a bit too tight in the waist, and at certain angles will cause puckering in the placket, but it looks cleaner tucked in and in the sleeves. The Extra Slim has a bit too much room in the waist and chest, but not to the point of it being worth having it altered. The wrist is a bit too wide on both fits.

I especially liked that CT did not alter the length of the shirt for the Super Slim fit one bit. Many brands assume that if you're skinny, you're shorter. This is, of course, not at all necessarily the case. I ordered my usual 15/34 with them, and the length on the Super Slim was perfectly just as long as the old Extra Slim.

On the other hand, and maybe this would have been asking too much, the wrist measurement is exactly the same! This makes little sense to me, as if you need a shirt that is a full one inch slimmer in the sleeves, your wrist is likely slimmer as well! Why does the Super Slim Fit have the exact same wrist dimensions as the Extra Slim Fit? Seems like an oversight, and one I hope they will fix. (Also, add a double button to the cuff barrels! The Super Slim only has one button. Why?)

Finally, I should also point out that I really appreciate that they otherwise kept the proportions the same as all their other shirts. They did not put some tiny collar or placket on this new fit, as so many other manufacturers or very slim shirts do. It's the same (semi-?) spread collar you find on their other shirts.

Bottom line: This is a shirt designed to bring the exact same styles available in the other CT fits to guys that are very slim. The model here really seems to be: "Make the same great shirt, just slimmer," something that just about no other company right now seems to be capable of. If you're very slim, rejoice — this shirt is going to fit you. If you were happy enough with the Extra Slim, though, this new fit is likely going to be too tight, and you should just stick with what you like now.

Quality & Construction

There is not a tremendous amount to say here: the quality and construction of the new Super Slim shirts is the same thing you'd expect from all CT shirts. It's respectable, by no means cheap, but is also not top-of-the-line. The non-iron is pretty solid and will definitely save you some time. As always, if you're looking for great looking, and great fitting shirts — with now even more options for more guy body types! — at great prices, look no further than Charles Tyrwhitt. You really cannot go wrong with these guys.

Clothing Options For Slimmer Guys

Guys that care about how their clothing fits have long been used to complaining about things being way too baggy, or fitting to loosely. It's rather rare to say that something is cut too slim for many guys, but Charles Tyrwhitt is here, hopefully, moving the industry in the right direction of providing fit options on both sides of "average."