Fit is obviously paramount when choosing your shirts. Although you can get away with a bit of excess material round the gut when your jacket’s on, you don’t really want to be left with a crude parachute when you are forced by circumstance or temperature to remove your outerwear.
Cotton is definitely the way forward in terms of cloth: it is cool, sweat-wicking and bright. When kept in good condition, a good cotton shirt retains its lustre longer than one made of polyester.
These days, most young men are on the slender side. Thatcher’s push for false inclusivity meant that a greater percentage of the population could afford to stay indoors with their noses buried in books (and their hands down their trousers) instead of getting out and doing a real job that might have put some meat on the bones.
Finding a shirt for the skinny man is tough. Topman now go down to the ludicrous (but sympathetic) XXS, and could be considered. It is possible, however, and preferable, to have a shirt made. Collars rarely go below 14 ½ inches and even that can be too much for some men. Furthermore, even if you have a collar that fits, your body may not match your neck (like mine for most of my adult life) and so you are forced to sniff-out a slim fit.
Harder to find than hen’s teeth are slim-fit shirts that don’t cost a bomb. Fortunately for all you penny-pinching rakes of men, Primark now offer a reasonable white slim-fit for a bargain £4. My advice? Buy four and then spend around £50-70 on a tailored shirt from one of the many reasonable emporia online. Save the tailored masterpiece for special occasions and rotate through your cheap stock as and when.
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