Customer Reviews L.L.Bean Chamois Shirt Regular

This shirt is beautifully made. The colors are great and the fabric is the best chamois we have seen. The problem was in the sizing. My husband always wears a regular large. He is 6' tall and weighs 185 lbs. This shirt was three inches too long in the sleeves. When I compared it to the same style shirt that I bought him a year ago, it was wider, longer and the sleeves came down to his finger tips. I called Customer Service and told them the buttons were farther apart on the new shirts, too. She thought it might have been mistagged and should have been a "tall." She sent me two new shirts, but they fit the same. When I called again for instructions to return them, I was told they now had a message that said they were oversized to allow for shrinking. She encouraged me to wash and dry them. I washed and machine dried one of them. It washed beautifully and did not shrink! I returned all four of them. P.S. The three henley-style shirts that I bought at the same time, fit him perfectly and washed and dried great.

I purchased 2 of these shirts (gray and navy) for my husband for Christmas (2016) I just washed them (in cold water) dried them (on delicate) and the Navy has pilling all over it so will have to wash it again it also has curled collar and bottom edge curled - the gray one, well where do I start. The collar is all messed up, wont fold right and curls the sleeves are all wrinkled, the bottom edging curled up and it looks like its 10 years old - not at all the quality I expect from LL Bean and the price of $49.95 each - I guess I should have went to Walmart instead. I had purchased 2 of these before for my husband and he loved the navy one (other than the collar curls still) so I thought I would get him a couple more. So disappointed in this shirt. My husband has not even worn them yet.

Terribly disappointed. Did some early Xmas shopping in late Oct..Early Nov. Bought 2 for gifts. When opened they were marked LARGE as ordered, BUT they were so large we thought about pitching them as a tent in the the family room! How can the sizing be so far off? Do not recommended this item until sizing is rectified. Additional input: These shirts did not have the typical Chamois soft handed feel they used to. Almost a cardboard hard feel. They are on the way back to Maine.

The fabric in this shirt is great but I wish I would have read the reviews with one star. The sizing on this shirt is way off. Ordered a Medium but was more like an extra large. Had to return both shirts. Someone in quality control needs to get a handle on this.

This is by no means the same material used for decades by LL Bean, but merely a "shadow" of it's former splendor. My 86 year old Father had chamois from the 60's as does my 68 year old friend-who also has LL Bean chamois from his Dad. I purchased my first one 24 years ago and the material still is unworn - color slightly faded. What we referred to as "heirloom quality" - you could pass them down to your sons. Enter an order for this product 2016: Chamois color. Shipment arrives - color WAY off. Chamois is more bright yellow - not tan. At a size XL - couldn't take the teasing of being the largest canary anyone had ever seen! The old material because it was so nice, thick and dense retained stiff collars that didn't curl up and go everywhere and thick cuffs that didn't pucker. This material is now about half the weight/density of the product from 24 years ago. Please don't do the customers a disservice by representing the current product as the same one designed by LL Bean decades ago. Design yes - Material, not even close. Very disappointing. I will return.

Bought the red chamois shirt in medium, my husband's go-to winter shirt. His old one is finally fraying at the collar and cuffs. The sleeves on the new one go way beyond his finger tips and the shirt hangs almost to his knees. The shoulders and body fit like an extra large. So disappointed. Returning it.

This is one of the prettiest plaids I've ever seen, and the fabric is wonderful. That said, the shirt is a mess. I ordered this for my Dad's 91st birthday, thinking it would be great for him since he gets so cold. This is the strangest fit I've seen on one of the LL Bean shirts. I ordered a medium regular, which is what he normally wears. The shirt is extremely baggy, long, with extremely long sleeves. Also, the front pockets are sewn on crooked and one is higher than the other. Really disappointed. I'm returning the shirt, and don't know what I will get to replace it.

My husband has owned several LL Bean chamois shirts over the years, and was always satisfied with the quality and durability. But after one washing and line drying, the fabric on this one fuzzed and pilled to a very noticeable degree. Very disappointing and I have already returned it.

I recently switched from woolrich to LLBean for chamois shirts. I prefer to wear then untucked. These shirts need one more bottom button. When worn untucked the shirt flaps around.

Measurements for these are a mess. Have ordered these for years and never had a problem. Now the shoulders are hanging off and the sleeves are 4 or more inches too long - almost to my husband's fingertips. It used to be so easy to order from LL Bean. These measurements are ridiculously off. My husband wears a large/tall. A medium tall would be too small in the body. Based on similar reviews it would do no good to try another large. These 3 shirts are going back today.

Have been purchasing chamois shirts for years in a large size. Ordered a new one and it draped on me like an XXL. The sleeves were 4" longer than my old ones. Sent it back and ordered a medium and it fits like the large. L.L.Bean has a sizing problem this year with these shirts but refuses to acknowledge it.

I loved the feel of this shirt; it was a little big and boxy when I first tried it on, but I figured it would soften in the wash and become flexible, soft, and comfy. Unfortunately it shrunk a huge amount in the first wash -- to the point where I could not even do the buttons up any more. I figure it shrunk at least 2", possibly 3". I had to return it without ever wearing it beyond first trying it on after my package was delivered.

Many people had liked this shirt in older reviews, but this year it seems to be very different. I had read multiple reviews explaining how the sizes were often too large this year. But it is difficult to find thick, soft, solid color shirts of this type so I decided that I would take a chance. When the two small, regular shirts I ordered arrived and I tried them on the sleeves were hanging down to my finger tips. The shirts appeared to be about 2 sizes too large so they were quickly returned. These shirts are made in El Salvador and it is quite possible that large numbers of the wrong labels were placed on an entire shipment of them. Or the factory has not followed the size specifications they were given and produced perhaps thousands of incorrectly sized shirts. I assume that companies such as LL Bean inspect samples of their various types of imported clothing when the shipments arrive in the U.S. and check for general quality. However with clothing items this is not enough. LL Bean must have at least dozens or perhaps hundreds of workers at their Maine warehouse who normally ware all different sizes of clothing. In addition to inspecting random pieces for quality it would be very easy to simply ask some of those individuals to TRY ON those samples to see if they fit correctly. If a problem with correct fit was detected the management could contact their foreign factory and tell them to stop production until the problem has been corrected. In order to prevent many other customers from having to return these shirts this season they should be withdrawn from their sales catalog until the problem with their sizing has been rectified.

Wow are these shirts way too big. I ordered a large which I always get from LL Bean. The shirts arrived and they were marked large but in reality they had to be XXL. I could wrap the shirt around me and the sleeves went beyond my fingertips. I called the company and explained but they insisted the sizing was correct. IT IS NOT!!! They said alot of people wear these with other garments but that doesn't explain why the sleeves are so long. I returned the shirts as unacceptable and received a gift card in the mail. If you order these shirts be aware that they run way way big.

Very high quality as is found in all LLB products but the sleeves are longer and baggier than other shirts in my size which is Tall XL. I'm going to exchange for an XL regular and hope that will solve the problem. Very grateful for LLB's quality and high level of customer service (even if the wait on the phone can be longer than one might like) BTW, I'm not the one that misspelled occasionally in the "Shops at L L Bean section".

My husband has been wearing S regular chamois shirts for, well, forever. I bought him a shirt in S regular that arrived a few days ago -- WAAY too long in the sleeves, at least three if not four inches. I'm returning it. This is really unfortunate, since chamois shirts have been his favorites for years, if not decades. Please adjust the sleeve length on these shirts and drop a hint to that effect in their description on your website -- I'm not going to buy any more until I know that they'll fit.

I purchased a shirt, size medium. The body of the shirt was fine but the sleeves were about 3 inches too long and baggy. It's as if the sleeves were built for a large size.

I have been buying the Chamois shirts for decades. The shirt size that I wear is Medium reg. I purchased one last year, 2015 and it fit. I purchased 2 shirts in Sep 2016 in Medium reg and they are way too large. When I spoke with a customer service rep she explained that last Fall someone at LL Bean decided to change the specs for the Med sized Chamois shirt and to make it larger with 35" sleeves. I wear a 15 1/2 32 dress shirt and a 42S sport coat. Based upon LL Bean's size chart I cannot wear a Small either. In my opinion LL Bean's decision to make the Med shirt larger is a terrible mistake and has cost them this long time customer. Please see the comparison pictures of the 2015 and 2016 shirts.

I'm tall and thin so I figured that a tall medium would fit. It made me look like a 10 year old who had to burrow his dad's shirt. I could have fit 2 of me in there. The arms were surprisingly long too. I could pull my whole hand in there. The material was awesome and the style would have been great if not for the sizing. I had to return it. I'd suggest that any one who doesn't want to use one of these as a tent should look into the 1933 Signature Chamois Shirt. Unfortunately for me, those are much more limited in colors and I couldn't find one that I liked.