I am a big guy as over the years, I have upgraded from the six pack to the keg abs and wear 2XL shirts and have a size 20 neck. I have been wearing Honig's and Dalco shirts for the past 4 years. This Christmas I received some gifts from my mom-in-law and part of it was (2) 2XL Ump-Attire Ultimate Umpire Shirts in black. I was super excited cause I had heard these shirts were the best on the market and have always loved all of ump-attire's exclusive items in the past (ultimate ball bags, wilson titanium mask with all-black padding, ect). I opened the shirts and loved the material and I thought the shirt looked great compared to my others. My initial reaction is wow, these are even better than I imagined. It had a great soft breathable material that I could see would be very comfortable to wear and they had a great look as it didn't have the mesh look that my Dalco's and Honig's had. Then I tried it on....tight, really tight! Felt and looked like I was wearing under armour compression shirt (not skin tight, but definately not something I could fit a chest protector under). So I thought maybe they run small compared to the other brands so I sent it back to ump-attire and got (2) 3XL instead. Again the shirts came and looked great, pull the first one out of the package and try it on....the shirt fit much better...but the neck opening was really weird. I don't know what it was exactly, was the collar too short or was it the neck opening was too small but it looked so weird my wife and I were laughing at the way it looked when I put it on. To describe it, she said to me it looks almost like a medium shirt collar put on a 3XL shirt. The color ends were sitting on top of my shoulders! They didn't extend down in the front and there was zero chance I could ever think of even buttoning the top button. (Not that I ever do that, just trying to explain how weird the collar looked on me) Definately didn't have the same neck and collar measurements as my Honig's or Dalco shirts. I say to myself, maybe it's just this one shirt, maybe it was a mixup in the factory, so I pull the other out of the packaging and tried that one on too, again it has the the same look in the collar neck area. I was really disappointed as i was looking forward to these shirts and was planning on getting them in other colors also. Unfortunately I had to just return them and have ump-attire send me (2) 2XL Dalco's that fit fine and I'm currently using. Now maybe it is only the larger sizes (2XL and 3XL), cause I have heard nothing but great things about these shirts from others in review and like I said I think the shirt looked great and if they fit me correctly (like the Dalco and Honig's) I probably would have switched over to these shirts in every color. I buy almost all my gear from ump-attire and really love their stuff, so this was a little let-down for me. Or maybe it is just one of those things, where something just dosen't look right when you put it on yourself, but yet looks great on the majority of others.
Brian Henryk
Monroe,NJ
