White shirts everyday?

[SkinnyGoomba]

Replace that with Hermes ties and you have a conservative banker wardrobe but I like it!

 

[Holdfast]

Nothing wrong with white shirts every day, but you would have to choose your tie collection quite carefully. White enhances perceived contrasts and brightens colours, which often works to flatter combinations but doesn't always do so. In the minority of cases where it doesn't work, having other colours helps. Given the range often found in menswear, pale blue tends to complement most of the combinations that white doesn't.

In essence, by only having white shirts, you control one variable in your outfit, thus reducing potential options (slightly). Pale blue (and other colours like pink or pale lilac) enable a greater breadth of potential combinations, at the expense of greater required selectivity, and therefore greater risk of a failed combination. Which set of options you choose will likely reflect what interests you when/about getting dressing: if you want a high chance of having a perfectly acceptable outfit every time, controlling variables is one way of achieving this. If you enjoy playing around with colours and don't mind occasional extravagant failures, white shirts all the time can be boring. Nothing wrong with either approach, but it has to suit your own priorities.

 

[patrickBOOTH]

I wear only white shirts. Either poplin, or summer pinpoint. I only wear white linen squares too. Leaves the mind to think about other things.

 

[Rolex Luthor]



Pet peeve of mine actually.

Mine too. Wearing the same thing every day is for characters in Wes Anderson movies. I wear a lot of white shirts, but I also wear a lot of blue shirts, pink shirts, striped shirts, windowpane shirts. I even have a glen plaid shirt. They all look good.

 

[F. Corbera]



Wearing the same thing every day is for characters in Wes Anderson movies.

Based on wrinkles, non-iron shirts only need to be laundered every 5+ wears.

However, the collar stains build up within 3 wears.

How do you avoid laundering dress shirts just for the collar?


Solution? Get some cloth tape from CVS, and line your collar.

You can now wear the shirts 5+ times before laundering.


Disclaimer: This doesn't work if you're a fat sweaty slob.

 

[JayJay]



I wear only white shirts. Either poplin, or summer pinpoint. I only wear white linen squares too. Leaves the mind to think about other things.

I knew we were of similar minds on the shirts, but I hadn't realized that it applied to pocket squares, too.

 

[SMatthews]

For me white shirt everyday is too boring, I'd like to add a few colors in there.

 

[patrickBOOTH]



I knew we were of similar minds on the shirts, but I hadn't realized that it applied to pocket squares, too.

I am a very austere and boring dresser.

 

[JayJay]



I am a very austere and boring dresser.

Likewise.

 

[patrickBOOTH]



Likewise.

 

[otc]

I feel weird and naked in a white shirt...and since I don't wear jackets or ties on most days, my white shirts end up mostly getting used only under sweaters.

 

[patrickBOOTH]



I feel weird and naked in a white shirt...and since I don't wear jackets or ties on most days, my white shirts end up mostly getting used only under sweaters.

Which is strange if you think about it.

 

[atila]

I'm 25 and manage my family's jewelry store, so I think it's acceptable and more appropriate for me to mix it up. I wear a suit 6 days a week and wear white or light blue dress shirts 4 days of the week... at least once a week I wear either pink/lavender and at least once a week a striped shirt also. Light blue and white SHOULD be worn most of the time, but not every single day, in my opinion.

 

[patrickBOOTH]



I'm 25 and manage my family's jewelry store, so I think it's acceptable and more appropriate for me to mix it up. I wear a suit 6 days a week and wear white or light blue dress shirts 4 days of the week... at least once a week I wear either pink/lavender and at least once a week a striped shirt also. Light blue and white SHOULD be worn most of the time, but not every single day, in my opinion.

You are just out of hand. Plain and simple. I would not buy a ring from such a dandified clown.

 

[otc]



Which is strange if you think about it.

Not sure why it is that strange. White is very bright and doesn't show any depth, particularly in bright light. If you don't have a jacket/sweater/tie/etc to break up the big, broad field of white that is a pinpoint shirt. Whites are also more likely to let your skin/undershirt lines show through and they show dirt much more easily than an off-white/pale color or pattern.

Wore a white twill shirt casually the other day and actually quite liked it, but for the most part, white looks too plain (or too uniformy) to my eye for me to just wear by itself every day.