millionaire75
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Hi, this is my first posting after lurking for a couple months. I actually came across this forum after doing a search on yahoo on how to remove breast pockets from dress shirts and I've become addicted! Learned a lot in the short time I've been reading and look forward to enjoying many more posts in the future.
Now on to my question...here's a dilemna I've been having since, well, since I graduated from college 9 years ago and have been in the working world. I've spent thousands of dollars on dress shirts, ranging in quality from cheap brands at Macys (perry ellis, alfani, etc) to better brands (charles tyrwhitt, brooks brothers, etc). My problem is working on wall street in a mid office function (financial reporting), the basic uniform is dress shirt and dress pants. Now depending on the person and the quality of the clothes, there are ways to dress this up and look good (you guys would have a field day with some of the people I work with...wrinkled pleated khakis, ill fitting wrinkled shirts, rockport orthopedic shoes, sqare toes, etc)....but it seems at the end of the day everyone has that same look of dark dress pants, a blue/white/pink/checkered/striped shirt that just doesn't look put together without a tie (even guys in senior management wearing higher quality stuff). When I try on the shirts with dress pants, I think "this looks great" but after coming back from the dry cleaners, where they press the sh*t out of everything, including flattening the collar to the point where it would take an act of god to make it stand up right, they just look sloppy and cheap. I've tried everything including buying those Wurkin Stiffs which work okay but tend to make every shirt look like a button down collar without the button if you know what I mean. Are there any particular shirts or any tricks that would counteract my dry cleaners steamrolling my collars??? I've tried in some cases wearing a tie on the way to an event and then removing it when I get there (which seems to work fine but is not realistic for everday at work). Any help would be appreciated and look forward to hearing from you guys. Thanks.
Now on to my question...here's a dilemna I've been having since, well, since I graduated from college 9 years ago and have been in the working world. I've spent thousands of dollars on dress shirts, ranging in quality from cheap brands at Macys (perry ellis, alfani, etc) to better brands (charles tyrwhitt, brooks brothers, etc). My problem is working on wall street in a mid office function (financial reporting), the basic uniform is dress shirt and dress pants. Now depending on the person and the quality of the clothes, there are ways to dress this up and look good (you guys would have a field day with some of the people I work with...wrinkled pleated khakis, ill fitting wrinkled shirts, rockport orthopedic shoes, sqare toes, etc)....but it seems at the end of the day everyone has that same look of dark dress pants, a blue/white/pink/checkered/striped shirt that just doesn't look put together without a tie (even guys in senior management wearing higher quality stuff). When I try on the shirts with dress pants, I think "this looks great" but after coming back from the dry cleaners, where they press the sh*t out of everything, including flattening the collar to the point where it would take an act of god to make it stand up right, they just look sloppy and cheap. I've tried everything including buying those Wurkin Stiffs which work okay but tend to make every shirt look like a button down collar without the button if you know what I mean. Are there any particular shirts or any tricks that would counteract my dry cleaners steamrolling my collars??? I've tried in some cases wearing a tie on the way to an event and then removing it when I get there (which seems to work fine but is not realistic for everday at work). Any help would be appreciated and look forward to hearing from you guys. Thanks.