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Charles Tyrwhitt was founded as a mail order company in 1986 by Nicholas Charles Tyrwhitt Wheeler while he was a student at Bristol University.[1] Wheeler has said that he started the business simply because he thought he "could make a shirt better than anybody else".[2]
In 1997, the company opened its first store on Jermyn Street, London, notable for its history in British shirt making.[3] Charles Tyrwhitt’s flagship store is now at Nos. 98–100 Jermyn Street.
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T. M. Lewin & Sons Limited (commonly known as T.M. Lewin) is a United Kingdom based gentleman's dress shirt retailer, and former UK manufacturer, founded in 1898.
The company was founded in 1898 when Thomas Mayes Lewin (T.M. Lewin) opened his first shop in Jermyn Street, St James's, London. T. M. Lewin produced shirts and accessories with a history of innovation, its founder being one of the first to make the 'coat-shirt', a shirt that the wearer put on like a coat, fastening the buttons down the front. This novelty was noted in the London Opinion and Today newspaper in 1905.[dubious – discuss]
An article by "The Major" in a November 1905 edition of London Opinion and Today stated that[citation needed]:
"...the shirt is shaped very much like a coat and is put on in a similar manner, fastening in the front with studs. One of its greatest advantages is that it fits closer than the ordinary shirt. Another point is that it has not, of course, to be put over the head. Thus there is no chance of a man who is accustomed to brush his hair before putting on his shirt ruffling his hair in the putting on process."