What shirt do I wear a cardigan with? (Untucked shirt doesnt work)

[Kentishman]

Originally Posted by Biggen

I recommend buttoning all buttons except the bottom one. That's how I always wear my cardigans.

Originally Posted by JohnGalt

this.

Seconded (or thirded).

 

[adadan]

I agree with just about everything everybody said on this thread (the bottom button unbuttoned is most common for me).

I also know I have a couple shirts that match up with a couple cardigans where the length of the shirt untucked just peeks out of the bottom of the cardigan, with all buttons buttoned. May be blasphemy, but I think it is a great super-casual (read: sloppy) look. Yes, I just admitted to liking a sloppy look on SF.

To go even further out on a limb (can you hear the branch creaking?), I never wore a cardigan with more than one button unbuttoned until a scene in the Elvis movie "King Creole" caught my eye. If you haven't seen it and are picturing the technicolor cheese of later Elvis flicks, this is fairly early, black & white, and he's on the way to high school, stops at the seedy bar where he "sweeps up," (this is in New Orleans in the late 50's) and get in an altercation with these mob-type guys, all while wearing a plain black high school type cardigan completely unbuttoned. Totally badass.

Feel free to call me an idiot, but since then I sometimes wear my plain black cardigan totally unbuttoned.

 

[hendrix]

Definitely don't button the bottom one. Personally, I would button the 2 above the bottom (buttons 3 and 4). Sometimes i'd do the rest of them up too, but never the bottom one.

 

[sq4you]

Originally Posted by ChicagoJohn

The buttoning entirely depends on the fit and length of the cardigan itself. It'll be different for each one.

+1

 

[sle-z-e]

I am currently wearing a cardigan with all but the bottom one buttoned. I am also wearing a t-shirt underneath (untucked). I think it looks pretty good but the shirt does have to be a shorter length than the cardigan itself.

 

[Specs]

Originally Posted by NowPlayingTheGame

Thanks for the input guys.

Comments on the pictures?
Hmm, I think my jeans don't fit well.


You are right. I have jeans that sort of fit like that and never realized how bad it looked until I saw those pictures. Those jeans have just been demoted to field work pants.