I did denim BD shirts in the 90s, living in Canada. Sometimes I made the mistake of doing double denim. OK for Toronto, great for Calgary Cowboy country but frowned upon in Vancouver.
I even had a Levi Jean jacket with a leather collar! Generally speaking I was usually kitted out in RL from the local store.

I don’t own a denim bd. But definitely have one on my ‘wants list’. Closest I have is a modern Gant chambray.
I contemplated a fairly nice high street one not long ago. A washed out light green number. Had nice details but of course the collar size let it down.
What I do like about them is they sit very firmly as American Ivy. Rather than crossing over into being accessible to other scenes/styles. As a lot of other button downs do.

I don't care for denim outside jeans and I am less inclined to wear them now.

TRS 'and are those collars just a little too long', - In my humble opinion YES, I bought one of last years check wool b/d and whilst I like the cloth the collar is 1/4 inch too long, won't be buying anymore JS shirts, unless a) they shorten the collar length, b) improve the ropey buttons they use, I've only ever bought 3 JS shirts since CS opening in 2011, TBH I haven't been happy with any of them, and whilst we're on the subject of shirts @ CS , ( I don't think I've mentioned this before), I tried on one of the NoS BDB's on my last visit a couple of months ago, it was absolutely enormous, maybe that's why they're still sitting on the website.......

AUS is right. There’s plenty of guys out there in internet land showing off their huge collars. If it’s not in proportion it just looks daft.
The BDBaggies Stax refers to must be NOS from the early 90’s, when huge was the cut of choice. I’ve bought a few BDB’s recently and was surprised how ‘baggie’ they weren’t. I’d obviously missed that the baggie must refer to the bag they supply with them rather than the cut of the shirt.
2RS - I thought the denim ones looked very dark on their website. I suppose nothing that wearing and washing wouldn’t fix. Although too much of that could push them further into the denim shirt territory that AUS refers to?

Some time ago I was shopping with my brother in law and he wanted to buy a BD shirt. To my surprise he chose one with a small collar which I pointed out to him. His arguement was that as he only has a short neck it suited him. Perhaps we need to take neck length into account.

I only have one long collared BD, made in Italy. I regard it as continental and not Ivy.

Any type of collar is good, short, long, buy whatever you like … unless your interested in an Ivy look

It’s all about the collar roll and if the collar points are too short or too long, or the collar buttons aren’t placed correctly,  it doesn’t happen. Isn’t 3 1/4??  the ideal collar point length, Im not a tailor but surely it can’t be too difficult to get right?

A well proportioned collar (as found on Brooks shirts) should suit pretty much anyone unless they are at the extreme ends of shortness or tallness.

A well cut BD dress shirt in a lightweight denim cloth does not automatically turn you into Marlboro/Medallion Man, as ever it depends what else you are wearing it with.

I think it is more that a certain age and mindset of men are attracted to denim shirts...Paul Hollywood style. Not the  fault of the shirt. I stopped wearing denim of any kind at forty as a choice, which has worked well for me but we are all different.

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Had an email from End this morning saying their sale is on, (as always), I checked what was on offer with Gitman shirts and to my surprise almost all of them are in the sale including Denim BD's, normally End hold back on the basics (white, blue, blue/white etc), but all bar the blue oxfords are in the sale and available in all sizes from what I can see, discounts are between 30% to 65%, there's 1 or 2 I like but I've got enough shirts ......

Stax - ‘ Had an email from End this morning saying their sale is on’

Quite like the look of the dark denim one which has tails, the sort of thing I had in mind when I wrote the post.

https://www.endclothing.com/gb/gitman-vintage-button-down-denim-shirt-vs19-d408-41.html

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