Stupid question -- French blue shirts

A good look, or only-rednecks-like-Drakkar kind of thing to wear anymore?

I have a nice French blue buttondown I could wear with my suit (got a second-visit interview tomorrow), but every time I go to a wedding or something formal, French Blue Shirt Guy seems to stand out, and not in a good way. Thoughts?

(And yes, the nerves of continuing though a prolonged interview process for what could be a great get are beginning to wear on me. Sorry.)

 

I never wear mine with a tie, but I still like wearing the shirt with a blazer or a suit/no-tie look.

 

I hate them with a passion.

Edit: never mind. Just googled. I thought we were talking about the blue shirts with the white collar and cuffs. Whatever those are called, I hate THOSE with a passion. I call them "the Tubby."

 

If that color is out of style then fuck style.

 

If you took away blue, you'd wipe out 50 percent of my clothes.

 

I've got 50 shades of blue shirts

 

I still call it the Jesse Jackson -- because I remember him wearing that shirt when he gave his famous speech at the 1984(?) Democratic Convention.

 

I just get frustrated by clothing designers' lack of consensus on what constitutes French blue. Sometimes it's the color of Violet Beauregarde plumping into a blueberry and other times it's essentially Oxford blue.

 

See, I like blue shirts because they work with my eyes, although I'm not exactly sure what "French" blue is. i will check.

I agree on the two-tone shirts. I had a CEO who wore them non-stop in the mid-90s. If I see one, I assume there's a douchebag inside it.

 

French blue is just a more saturated blue. Not a pale blue, but a good, strong blue. From what I could tell, anyway.

 

Oh, I know the color you mean. It's the favored shirt among 35-year-old middle managers here in NYC. I see 600 of them on the train every morning. They're usually matched with a $250 gray suit from Mens Wearhouse and a pair of rubber-souled black "dress shoes" with squared off toes.

 

And THIS is my worry.