^ Makes sense.  Some slimmer women might get away with it.  I did, in fact, buy some 60s Viyella 'French-sailor' style tops about a dozen or more years ago.  Simply didn't take to them.

Worse, even worse, you can picture a popped collar.

Looked great on the Lisbon Lions of 1967.

Green and white is a particularly pleasing combination.

Perhaps best on the sports field though.

Growing up, my younger brother, a useful footballer, had copies of the Celtic shirt and the QPR shirt. The West Ham away blue shirt with two claret hoops is one of the most popular shirts of all time amongst older fans . Hoops look good on young, fit people.
When I  was in shape I used to wear both a blue and white and red and white hoops. Can't wear them now that I'm out of shape.
Didn't someone post a clip of mid 60 mods wearing hooped t shirts?

As I pare down to what I really like and wear often, and give away what I’ve experimented with and/or like as a concept or as worn by others, I find everything I own is solid. University stripes and tattersalls are great. I even used to collect those wild paisley print button downs with labels like Arrow Cum Laude and Campus. I sent a lot of mine to Worried Man a while back. I still appreciate them. But nowadays, an Oxford cloth button down in a blue or white, with a white t-shirt underneath is all the “design??  I need.

And so, while I am drawn to broad patterns, I find I get overwhelmed in them. The classic solid OCBD is a subtle frame for me- rather than me becoming a billboard for a design, pattern, etc.

I'm pretty much one hundred per cent with Jdemy on this.  I'll wear check, but stripes and solids are better.  Fourteen or fifteen years ago, when it seemed easier to find Makers on Ebay, I bought both green and yellow university/candy stripe.  I'd have liked something in red: never found one.

From what we read of 60s Mods they might have been in and out of those hooped shirts in around seven days or less. 
'One week he's in polka dots, the next week he's in stripes...'  Is that how it goes?

Plenty of cash needed for trips to the tailor etc.

1. Re : Kingstonian - Dave Thomas, ex-QPR. Joined Everton in 1977. A teenage hero of mine. I used to stand bottom-right in the Gwladys Street End so I could see Dave, socks rolled down, rubber soled boots, come jinking down the left wing to delicately float in crosses for Big Bob Latchford to net his 30 goals on one season. Fantastic memories and a beautiful player. This dear chap is now blind and has a guide dog, He was interviewed by QPR fan Robert Elms on the radio and they were both in tears. I was too.
2. I sometimes wear those middle class Breton tops they all wear round my North London way. It's not Ivy really, but fits in with a pair of jeans and desert boots. Sometimes I get bored with the orthodoxy and a bit of stripe is a bit of a break from the tyranny of 'the syllabus'.

Sorry to hear Dave Thomas is blind. He was a very entertaining and unassuming player.

Henry Cooper served in the family greengrocer shop on Wembley High Road when he retired.

Unlike another Wembley boxer, Fraudley Harrison, who made far more money.

Ex-footballers also owned Sport Shops, we had two round my way Jim Standen an FA & European Cup winner who played with the holy trinity of Moore, Hurst & Peters, who were the star guests at the opening. Also Johnny Berry a Busby babe and survivor of the Munich air crash had a sport shop in Farnborough.