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#1 2017-05-23 14:21:31
- Beestonplace
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The newly-discovered stripes/checks conundrum WARNING
Many shirt manufacturers, namely Turnbull & Asser, offer the same shirt both in stripes and checks patterns, i.e. a regular bengal stripe shirt in white/navy, and a gingham one with the same colours and width of pattern.
Warning. A checked shirt comes across as much darker due to the additional horizontal stripes, leaving the wearer with an almost demin-shirt-like result.
Dont!
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#2 2017-06-01 21:15:27
- Chévere
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Re: The newly-discovered stripes/checks conundrum WARNING
I never got the checked shirt/gingham shirt thing.
Perhaps the madras shirt craze of the sixties polluted my mind.
But here's a thought experiment for the Beasty Boy: Navy suit, Madras shirt, and Hermes tie!
Cógelo suave, pero cógelo.
#3 2017-06-02 10:40:55
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Re: The newly-discovered stripes/checks conundrum WARNING
Not sure about madras - every few years I used to buy a madras piece (shirt or shorts), usually from Polo Ralph Lauren. I never got the hang of it.
At the moment, I am a Bengal man.
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#4 2017-12-02 13:17:42
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Re: The newly-discovered stripes/checks conundrum WARNING
An extra warning for all checks in NAVY blue/white!!1
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#5 2017-12-03 02:05:59
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Re: The newly-discovered stripes/checks conundrum WARNING
Rocking traditional, current and classic Italian Ivy since 2011.
#6 2017-12-03 02:23:56
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Re: The newly-discovered stripes/checks conundrum WARNING
Agree. But that is not a PoW, right? And too dark a shade of blue, for my taste.
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#7 2017-12-03 02:40:44
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Re: The newly-discovered stripes/checks conundrum WARNING
I think its called Glenfield?
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#8 2017-12-03 02:41:26
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Re: The newly-discovered stripes/checks conundrum WARNING
In a more sky/baby blue it might be nice.
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#9 2017-12-03 09:49:31
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Re: The newly-discovered stripes/checks conundrum WARNING
What have you just discovered?
#10 2017-12-03 10:18:41
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Re: The newly-discovered stripes/checks conundrum WARNING
come again
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#11 2017-12-03 10:44:51
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#12 2017-12-03 11:11:57
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Re: The newly-discovered stripes/checks conundrum WARNING
Its about stripes being more elegant than checks and also more considerate towards the underlying shirt base.
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#13 2017-12-03 13:42:02
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#14 2017-12-03 13:48:18
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Re: The newly-discovered stripes/checks conundrum WARNING
Yes I am talking about business, although in some circles it is fashionable (shudder) to wear boyish Ginghams or Tattersal shirts with ties, often people from the professional classes (lawyers and the like) who don't own a place in the countryside but wish they would. You know the type.
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#15 2017-12-03 13:51:31
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Re: The newly-discovered stripes/checks conundrum WARNING
And more precisely, I am talking about double cuff poplin shirts. I don't care much about herringbones or twills.
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