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Silk or Satin Shirts?

RicoItaliano

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Originally Posted by Claudio
just bought off white shirt fabric 60%silk 40%cotton - with fine pinstripes (off white) - works well in this mix but would not like it to be 100% silk (or satin) for all the above reasons

A while back I had stumbled accros a nice white shirt that had stripes that we sort of an off white perhaps even translucent. A very sharp shirt, but I have been unable to locate on again. I would have liked to purchase a bunch in white and other colors.
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Claudio

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HI Rico,
still have lots of fabric left and will be making shirts (both in off white silk/cotton as explained and also white on white patterned stripes pure cotton) soon so if interested email me
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Holdfast

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I picked up some 70:30 (if I remember right) silk/linen RL Polo button-downs earlier this year. Now those blends are great.
 

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