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Stupid question -- French blue shirts

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by UNCGrad, May 22, 2012.

  1. Appgrad05

    Appgrad05 Active Member

    Like you, UNCGrad, I always associate French Blue with, to be kind, the type of person who doesn't often need to wear a dress shirt. As such, I've stayed away. But if it works, it works. Sounds like it did in this situation.
     
  2. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Late to the party as well. Congrats to UNCGrad on getting the job.

    On an other note, who wears buttondown shirts with a suit? That's a serious fashion faux pas--unless you're over 50 and wearing seersucker.
     
  3. Frank_Ridgeway

    Frank_Ridgeway Well-Known Member

    In the United States, a buttondown collar is what you'd wear with a 3/2 sack suit. But I've long broken that fashion rule to include any natural-shouldered traditional American suit. I have a couple point-collared white shirts for when I want to follow the rule, but usually I don't choose to.
     
  4. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Not a huge fan of the 3/2 sack style or natural shouldered suits. I don't consider them very dressy but that's just me.

    Not that I wear suits at work anymore but if I did, I'd tend to a more formal styling and shirts with French cuffs. Or I'd wear a sports jacket or blazer --and then I'd be cool with a buttondown.

    It's almost impossible to find white or blue buttondown dress shirts up here

    But maybe it's a cultural thing.
     
  5. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    I don't like the high-shouldered, euro cut on a jacket.
    Count me in the sack-cut camp.
     
  6. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    It's not an either/or. You can have a suit that has some structure to it without it looking like you are wearing shoulder pads.
     
  7. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    Same here.

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    Honestly? The only people my age I see wearing pink or pastel dress shirts are insecure douchebags of the highest order.
     
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  8. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    I love a good soft pastel shirt if it's popped with a strong tie.
     
  9. Frank_Ridgeway

    Frank_Ridgeway Well-Known Member

    I have completely changed my mind about pink in the past two or three years. Wore nothing pink for the first half-century of my life because I was taught "pink is for girls." Now I wear a pink shirt maybe once every other week or so. Also, I allow myself a good cry in the men's room sometimes now. But I still avoid cologne because I view it as a gateway drug not to being a douchebag but to actually purchasing one.
     
  10. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    And ... sigged.
     
  11. Brooklyn Bridge

    Brooklyn Bridge Well-Known Member


    I have a nice pink uni stripe from brooks bros that works well in the spring/summer.

    Pink actually started off as being for boys because it was closer to red (a power color). That changed sometime in the 19-Teens or 20s (at least from what I've read)
     
  12. Frank_Ridgeway

    Frank_Ridgeway Well-Known Member

    I have that same shirt. Can't find it on their website now, but BB usually calls the pink stripe on the Oxford buttondown "red." Although BB has no difficulty using the p-word on solid shirts.
     
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