I’m wearing a sky blue shirt four out of five working days. It is not always a plain one. I like stripes too: pencil stripes and once in a while butcher stripes.
Rarely, I choose a plain sky blue shirt in a smooth poplin weave. In fact, I only have one of that type in the closet. Plain sky blue needs a little fuzziness in the texture, I think. Else it will appear heavy. An end-on-end, for instance, has that interest in texture, which poplin doesn’t have.
Last week I got my first red striped dress shirt. I’ve been wanting to order at least one for many years, but I only managed to act two months ago, when I placed an order with Carmela and Roberta at Camiceria Carmen in Turin. The red striped shirt was made up from a Thomas Mason fabric they have.
It will not be an everyday shirt for me, properly. That said, I don’t find it to be a bold or fancy shirt, more “a different kind of sky blue shirt”. It is a serious business shirt, basically.
Could be I should order a few more red striped dress shirts to supplement the sky blue species.
Source: The Journal of Style