Intentional Wrinkles

[ArteEtLabore14]

What are your feelings on shirts that are intentionally wrinkled? I feel like this most happens with more casual button-downs, and I'm personally on the fence about it. On the one hand, I don't necessarily want a relaxed, casual shirt to look like it's been board-ironed and starched. On the other hand, wrinkles generally make you look sloppy and are much more likely to take away from your outfit, rather than add to it.

Your take?

 

[APK]

There's middle ground between starched/pressed and the wrinkly hobo look you describe.

 

[theom-]

Most of my casual shirts I wash and then hang dry. They come out slightly wrinkled which is perfect. Chambray shirts come out really wrinkly and crispy which i lurve.

Casual = OK
Formal =

 

[Harold falcon]

Originally Posted by ArteEtLabore14

wrinkles generally make you look sloppy and are much more likely to take away from your outfit, rather than add to it.

^ this.

 

[ArteEtLabore14]

Originally Posted by APK

There's middle ground between starched/pressed and the wrinkly hobo look you describe.

Pics or it didn't happen.

In all seriousness though, where exactly is this middle ground? And is it set differently for a shirt that just happens to be wrinkled, and a shirt that was made (or made to be) wrinkled?

 

[APK]

The wrinkled look you describe in the first post created a mental image of someone who just pulled a shirt out of a small bag.

When I think of middle ground, I think of a shirt that has minimal wrinkling in the areas you'd most expect to find them (i.e. the back of the shirt).

 

[theom-]

Style does not have arbitrary rules like this.
I could see a made to be really wrinkled blue poplin shirt paired with a well cut gray suit and whiskey colored oxfords sans the socks working out really well.