Shirt Boxes.

A folding two-piece shirt box is die-cut from paperboard, ships flat and is set up at the counter, while a rigid build is glued up at the factory from wrapped greyboard. The folding version is the classic department-store box and takes far less room to store. The rigid version is heavier, holds its corners through years in a wardrobe and is the one people keep.

Most shirtmakers run both, folding for everyday sales and rigid for the gift tier.

It is a shaped paperboard piece that sits inside the collar and keeps the band standing at the right height while the shirt is boxed. Without it, the lid presses the collar flat and the points curl. Buyers look at the collar first, so it is the part of the fold that has to arrive crisp.

We cut the board to your collar style, spread or point, and it can carry your mark if you want it to double as a card.

A depth around 2 in presents a single folded dress shirt, and about 2.5 in takes three stacked. Heavier cloth like oxford needs the extra depth sooner than a fine poplin does. Too shallow and the lid crushes the fold. Too deep and the shirt slides about.

Our standard sizes are 15 × 9.5 × 2 in and 17 × 11 × 2.5 in, both built around the usual retail fold of roughly 14 × 9 in. We can cut other depths for flannel or knitwear.

Matte lamination is the everyday choice, with a foil mark on the lid for the gift tier. Matte keeps the box from glaring under shop lights and hides handling marks better than gloss. A cream board with a single colour of print gives the traditional haberdashery look, and kraft suits a casual label.

For gifting, a printed band around the lid or a seal sticker across the join adds a finishing step without changing the box itself.

Not with our bases, which are built to carry weight on top so a pile of boxed shirts doesn't sag at the counter. Shirt boxes are displayed in stacks far more than most apparel packs, and a soft base bows once five or six boxes sit on it. The lid walls take much of the load, so we keep the fit snug.

If you ship them by carrier, E-flute corrugated gives more crush strength than SBS paperboard at the same footprint.

The folding paperboard and kraft versions go into ordinary paper recycling once the tissue and any seal sticker are removed. Matte lamination adds a thin film layer, and a few local programmes are stricter about laminated board. Uncoated kraft is the simplest option if recycling comes first.

The rigid gift box is paper and board as well, and in practice it tends to be kept for storing ties and cufflinks rather than thrown out.

We start shirt box runs at 500 units. That covers one size and one print design, and the ceiling goes as high as 100,000. A shop carrying both of our standard sizes would order 500 of each.

Since the folding style ships flat, 500 boxes take up far less stockroom space than the number suggests, which makes a first order easy to hold.

Standard turnaround is 7 to 10 business days after proof approval, and rush orders run 5 to 7 business days. If you want to check the fold and the collar board before committing, a sample takes 5 to 7 business days and its fee is deducted from the bulk order. We ship to any address in the USA.

For Father's Day or the holidays, book the sample early so rush isn't the only option left.