Instead of a white shirt?

[thomasbonilsson]

I always tend to wear a whit shirt, that combine with whatever suit or 40s pant I am wearing. Sometimes I would like to wear something else but still keaping the style.

Do you have any tips?

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Anything goes. NO floral patterns, though. I learned that the hard way.

bk

 

[Caledonia]

Just keep it light not bright, and don't do same colours, ie don't do grey shirt with grey suit. Contrast is effective.

 

[Mr. Rover]

STRIPES! I love stripe shirts! Wide stripes, skinny narrow stripes, pinstripes, etc etc. I used to have a lot but I'm down to one blue oxford shirt with white stripes (or is it a white shirt with blue stripes???). Like you, most of my shirts are white now.

 

[Benny Holiday]

Yes, they did wear coloured shirts way back when

And, as Ghos7a55in says, stripes - love those stripes! I have business shirts that I wear with my sportscoats and suits in soft yellow, off-white, white light blue, a dull green (looks great with a brown sportscoat ala' Jeff Bridges in the opening scene of Tucker: the Man and His Dream) and of course black, which looks so gangster with a flashy 40's tie and a light grey sportscoat.

I'm currently saving my pennies to check out a local shirtmaker my tailor (who only makes suits) recommended to me. I have visions dancing in my head of two shirts, one white with navy blue stripes, the other white with brown stripes, both with French cuffs and a nice long collar.

I've become almost as obsessed with those long collars of yore as i have with beltback suits . . .

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Did someone say colored shirts?

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showpost.php?p=126513&postcount=1


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[Mr. Rover]

I'm lucky that the shirtmakers in Taiwan are so cheap. It's about $27-$30 (depending on exchange rate) to get a shirt made here. They still haven't gotten the long and skinny pointed collar yet. I can get long, but it's usually too wide. They got in a bolt of this nice striped fabric, so I think my next order is going to be for a shirt with a club collar and single barrel french cuffs.

 

[Benny Holiday]

Did someone say colored shirts?

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showpost.php?p=126513&postcount=1


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No! No! Not those colours! lol

 

[Benny Holiday]

fftopic: Ray, you look cooler than a Hammett or Chandler character in your avatar. Great pic!