Complexion also dictates the choice of pattern
Once again the amount of contrast found in the complexion above will dictate the degree of contrast desired below. The Hairline, pin, pencil, shadow, Bengal, and variegated striped settings enjoy long standing popularity on the business circuit as patterned dress shirt.
In the check family, the pin, miniature graph, and small box tattersall are also highly recognized figures within the corporate boardroom.
While it’s hard to own too many simple blue-and-white-striped dress shirts, the same can be said for those dressy mini-checks that effect a predominantly blue background. Because the small, fancy blue check appears like a solid from a distance, substituting the fine blue check for a blue solid shirt lends an air of sophistication with little risk of fussiness.
Read moreThe spread collar has been the keystone of English bespoke look since the double collar came to town during the early 1920s
Its introduction is widely attributed to the famous Prince of Wales, probably due to his alleged creation of the Windsor knot that was supposed to escort it. In fairness, it was really his younger brother, the Duke of Kent, who first popularized it.
Read morePerhaps no other male vestment has been more maligned over the past fifty years than the brown suit
First, there was the old British saw about never wearing brown in town. Churchill once impugned it as the mantle of a cad.
The khaki-clad legions of the post-World War era eschewed brown because it reminded them of their military service, while their bridges felt that the shade aged them. Finally, Charles Revson’s highly publicized quip about brown making men look like “shit” pretty much resigned it to the wardrobe of the nonconformist.
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