Fashion Board 12-09-03 through 1-08-04

[robustpuppy]

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).

Pink stuff lasts foreever and the stitching is perfect. Of course, if you can swing Brioni or Borelli, that's better, but you'll pay twice the price. Turnbull & Asser is also good shit, but the collars aren't real spreads - they're more modified American spread. Tyrwhitt is the best bargain, but they don't last half as long as Pink and the fabris don't come in all the cool patterns like Pink.

Dandy.