My Favourite Fashions: the Plain White Shirt
posted on 30 December 2011 | posted in
Fashion
While my wife has quite a wide range of tastes when it comes to fashion - from her Fever dresses to her Doc martens - I'm quite the reserved - but smart - male.
My favourite item of fashion is the plain white shirt. It’s got a bit of a dodgy press in recent times, tarred with the same brush as the necktie that often accompanies it. Once a national object of suave sophistication, it has been corrupted through its appropriation as an object of uniform not for no reason is the educated professional called the white-collar worker. Generations of schoolchildren have been forced to blearily shawl themselves in white shirts every cold winter morning. Years of slick businessmen and bank managers white-clad and buttoned-up have done nothing for its image either. Yet the white shirt is a fashion classic not in spite of its ubiquity but because of it. Too many people try to avoid the old white-collar cliché by leaving it untucked or open-necked- the politician’s idea of casual- or pulling on a coloured shirt instead. Resist. If you want to look better than the men around you, beat them at their own game. Wear your white shirt with pride, tucked in, buttoned up, with tie and jacket. It’s the sign of a man. And what’s more, an individual.
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