Striped shirt
Shirt with lengthwise stripes, in the office usually fine Bengal stripes in light blue and white made of poplin. It looks livelier than a solid shirt and still stays calm as long as sport coat and tie are plain. With a suit, sport coat and wool trousers it goes like a light blue shirt. Two patterns side by side, such as stripes and check, take practice.
In the catalog
From the Guide
- Light blue goes with almost any trousers: beige, sand, taupe, olive, gray and navy are safe. With jeans and brown it works, but is not the first choice.
Related terms
- PoplinCotton fabric in a plain weave with very densely set, fine threads.
- Oxford shirtShirt made of Oxford cloth, usually with a button-down collar whose points are buttoned to the shirt.
- Poplin shirtShirt made of poplin: smooth, dense and fine, with a collar that carries a tie, such as the wide-spread cutaway collar.
- Chambray shirtShirt made of chambray, which from a distance looks like lightweight denim.
- Camp-collar shirtShirt with a flat, open lapel collar without a collar stand and a straight hem, made to be worn untucked.
- Band-collar shirtShirt that has only the collar band and no collar points.