Are striped dress shirts history? Is this several year old shirt still OK to wear?

[ballmouse]

 

[PhiPsi32]

The shirt is fine. It's how you wear it that counts. As casual weekend or evening shirt, it works well. I see a lot of these types of shirts downtown on Friday/Saturday night. Pair it with medium to dark wash jeans and brown or walnut dress shoes or boots. Wear it in the spring and summer.

 

[12345Michael54321]

As casual wear, I suppose it might be acceptable. I wouldn't wear it with a suit or a jacket, but that's not because "it's history," since neither would I have worn it with a suit or a jacket 5, 10, 15, or 20 years ago. (Maybe 40 years ago. I mean, it's not as bad as something Greg Brady might have worn, and had his sister Marcia call "groovy." But that's damning it with faint praise.)

I say this as someone who wore a striped shirt (white, with a fine red stripe) today, with a suit. So don't go to thinking that I have any fundamental antipathy toward wearing striped shirts with suits. It's just that not all striped shirts are created equal.
--
Michael

 

[grayscalefade]

I'm gonna clean / press it and just see how it looks. I'll post a pic. If I feel like I fell into a time machine or feel at all self-conscious, it's gonna go in the donate pile.

Thanks all! I love the feedback here.

 

[wannabe]

Slap a white contrast collar and white French cuffs on it. Wear with solid tie and solid suit. Done!

 

[MyOtherLife]

Nothing wrong with the shirt. Nothing wrong with striped shirts. Keep it and wear it if you still like it.

 

[MikeDT]



This may help you decide.

The first line just made me crack-up.
Look at my button down striped shirt! ******* look at it! This shirt means one thing! I’m coming home with some ***** tonight!

 

[RSS]

Striped dress shirts are not history. Although, that particular shirt was history -- the kind that should never be recorded -- at the time it was made.

 

[sborg]

Well if you really like it then keep it, otherwise toss it.

You rarely see men in business suits wear striped shirts nowadays, but it doesn't mean its history. But if you really like it, then use it.

 

[Sanguis Mortuum]



You rarely see men in business suits wear striped shirts nowadays

Well this is just completely untrue. Obviously you don't wear a shirt like the OP's with a business suit, but plenty of people wear striped shirts in general...

 

[bmac11c]



that would look great in a leased BMW 328i driving to a Dallas nightclub in Lower Greenville

LOL! +1

 

[RSS]



You rarely see men in business suits wear striped shirts nowadays...

This comment does not hold true in the cities where I spend time. Montreal is, perhaps, an exception to what I see.

 

[emc894]

Bengal stripes are pretty damn common in business.

That shirt is heinous. I would definitely donate it.

 

[SirGrotius]

I have no idea what some people on this thread are thinking. If there were an encyclopedia entry for "dated mid-2000 shirt" that would be the picture. I thought you pulled it from an Onion article. Congrats on the weight loss, but save up for some modern fitted shirts.

 

[HughJ]



that would look great in a leased BMW 328i driving to a Dallas nightclub in Lower Greenville

LOL that was my mental picture too. Stripes are fine, but this shirt is awful.