| taxwonk |
12-16-2003 03:36 PM |
Actual Fashion Question -- women's shirts.
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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Well, Americans wear point collars, which are the uniform or accountants and guidance counselors everywhere. And Americans also tend to wear exclusively white or blue shirts with everything and buy their suits and shirts too big, which makes them look like a middle manager pulling an old suit out of the closet to accept some lifetime service award.
Pink, and Charles Tyrwhitt and some of the other English shirtmakers cut their shirts thin and offer spread collars, which is the only sort of dress shirt that really looks good with a suit (the tab collar is an abomination, the rounded collar is only acceptable if you're an NBA first round draft pick or Deion Sanders and the buttoned down collar is only apporporiately worn casually, sans tie... even if you're a blue blood like Dr. Dean).
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Actually, point collars and buttondown collars look just fine on anyone with the confidence to not need the validation of GQ or Esquire. Spread collars are generally a bit too formal for everyday wear, unless they come in garish colors or stripes, in which case they are merely foppish. Brits get a pass on this rule, but only because simply the fact of being Brits makes them foppish by birth.
Spread collars are especially horrid on anybody with a rounder face, as the effect of a spread collar and a wide knot on the tie tends to make the unfortunate soul look like a balloon bobbing on a string. |
