I wear them quite regularly at the office, both solid and striped. I tend to like this style on fine stripes (banker stripes etc) or solid high thread count broadcloth. They're the dressiest shirts I own, and I have them made up with a revere placket to underscore that. If any of you have advice on other soft collared dress shirt styles, would be super down to hear them.
I like them in the summer especially, particularly in fine stripes, light fabrics, and unlined collars and cuffs ... wear them reasonably often ... collar must be soft, never use stays ....
I prefer point collars with suits, frankly.
Stan - been wearing my point collars sans stays. I really love the soft look, thanks for this suggestion.
but I do like plain point or tennis collar shirts plenty, when they're soft, because when they're sharp and extra pointy they're antithetical to the curved aesthetic of Ivy I like best, i.e., rounded shoulders, rolling collars, shawl collars, crewnecks ......
I wrote this in another thread recently but I'll repeat it here - I like sack suits and bd collars best, but I have a few point collars I really like, and I enjoy sometimes pairing a point collar and foulard shirt with a pure Ivy sack suit, and sometimes pairing an OCBD and repp tie with a darted suit (yes, I have one, a gray pinstripe natural-shoulder H. Freeman from the '80s)... The sack suit softens the point collar, and the button-down softens the darted suit... I don't do it all the time but it's fun...
Of course, the best point collar action out there these days is on He Who Must Not Be Named over on Fox. I personally find the man vile but he knows how to put a shirt and tie together.
I generally hate the obscene spread collars that seem to have replaced normal point collars as the new normal, so when something more serious than a fluid button-down is needed, it's the point collar. Because I only have one tab collar shirt and one rounded collar otherwise.
I had to look up an image of the Tuck, who is the only person of interest on Fox News. He does do the straight point collar well, which presumably is necessary for his position of network star. The boyish BD would not do.
^ yar boo sucks to spread collars