White Shirt

An absolute must-have that gets you feel well dressed up, stylish and set confident. 

However, to choose  and wear it well, that’s another story! As usual, it will the tiny pieces of details that will make the huge difference. 

The white shirt is one-size-fits-all and will suit to any body types. 

There is definitely one just for you! 

As well as for the White T-shirt, the most difficult job here is to pick up the rare pearl. 

You ll find tones of them in shops or boutiques BUT find Yours, that one perfectly adjusted, in high quality is not always a picnic! 

How to select your white shirt ?

For it to become a real basic of your wardrobe, it must be simple, that is to say white, with long sleeves, buttons and a classic shirt collar (french collar).

So forget about claudine collars, mao collars, blouses without buttons… which are not in the same category.

We also forget the embroidery, lace, cutouts, frills, yokes, asymmetrical buttoning, links etc..

No wonder as Poplin material just combined strongness and durability on one hand but also softness and lustre, on another hand. 

The Poplin material is easy to iron and do not wrinkle easily.

Besides, the material should not be to thin or see-through. 

Also forget the too rigid shirt with its starchy aspect and far not comfortable.

Forget about the rice tag to judge, it s not a pledge of quality when the fabric is!

That is why and again we favor 100% cotton fabric. 

It is essential that the buttons are white ! Pure white … please run away from the yellowed ones …

L’excellence ; mother-of-pearl buttons. 

There should not be any shoulder pads , one single chest pocket but not more! 

French collar, also called as Classic or Kent collar, is the most common one , its opening is light but substantially wide like the distance between the cutting-edges is approximately 6 to 7 cm. 

The collar swings between softness and steepness and when it comes to its height, it should reach the middle of your neck if buttoned up. 

That’s also something you need to know, the longest the cutting-edges are, the longest your face will seem.

Capitalize on a shirt as simple and minimalist as it can be , rely on 100% cotton-poplin, straight and fairly loose, then you will tick all the style and comfy boxes.

With 100% cotton-poplin :

• Comptoir des Cotonniers
• The Kooples
• Agnès B
• Acne Studio
• Sezane (Boy version)
• Figaret
• Uniqlo
• etc.

The best and the easiest is to go to department store like Galeries Lafayette or Printemps and might do a group shot thanks to a wider availability overview. 

As much guarantee of success, the white shirt has, as easy it is to find it in almost every shops, therefore don’t misjudge about findings in fast-fashion shop like Mango, there you can discover some treasures (the only attention to pay on, would be the see-through of the fabric). 

Nevertheless, if you bump into the ONE, which will fulfill all your expectations, take 2 straight away, you will never ever get tired of wearing them so it matches everything.

It’s purely a masterpiece in your wardrobe, timeless and versatile.

$$$ Budget : between 20 and 150€

To be fair, there’s 1000 ways : 

• Perfect match to achieve a Tomboy style, wear it next-to-skin, neckline opened (more or less according your mood and wether it’s a day or a night outfit) surrounded by tiny fines chains, sleeves rolled up to the elbow displaying a nice watch , in front tucked it into your pants or your skirt and let it out at the back.
• Style it with a round neck black or anthracite colored jumper but let sleeves, collar (buttoned all the way up to the top) and bottom cut appearing.
• As an overshirt, revealing a sexy caraco.

The masculine version of the white shirt is the striker of your wardrobe, multifaceted it will : 

calm down your « too » sexy or « destroy » looks.

Bring some chic to your casual outfits.

Downplay « disco ball » pieces like mini skirts with sequins or glit.

Here some ideas to combine your white shirt with others basic and timeless pieces of your wardrobe :