Shirts

My real bugbear is trousers, though. You can't find good trousers anywhere anymore.

Me too. I have two very nice short-sleeved shirts. The rest of my shirts are only ok, but not "disgusting" either. I've never had difficulty finding shirts i like. Any short-sleeved shirt which isn't some hideous colour will do me.

I want the normal shirts cos I don't really have non going out clothes or very dressed up going out clothes, just an eternal middleground.

Archel is OTM, also Uniqlo is pretty decent for shirts, but I may be being a trifle London-centric.

I have Starry's problem. If I wear a shirt I have to safety-pin it together over my boobs to stop it gaping between the buttons.

Can I mention that River Island should be avoided at all costs?

Shirts are possibly the *most* unattractive garment a woman can wear. Especially those starchy, cotton ones. They crease in an unbecoming fashion across the waist-line when you sit down and they always gape across the cleavage. I will only wear a shirt in the most dire moment of need.

my favourite ever shirt is going through at the elbows----I will never find another like it. : (

But... but... you don't HAVE to be remotely imaginative or actually make an effort in order to look like you've made an effort. That's one of the great things about being a bloke! Case in point, every bloke dressed identically at the Oscars.

(You could just ignore me, when I'm not wearing identical clothes to my mates I get dressed in some kind of fantasy land)

*yes, i live in a fantasy world, too.

yes, kill me. go on. do it.

our drummer has a near legendary collection of shirts, all of them amazing. he gets them all over the world, every time we tour, he has to go shopping for sharp shirts.

i like cowboy shirts, myself, but MY GOD is it hard to get them for girls. they never fit in the bust. i mean, where does freaking DOLLY PARTON get her shirts made? honestly...

lately, i've been favouring the psuedo-silk stripey shirts from africa as found in the hoxton market for about £1 each.

Because there's an entire industry & structure making decisions as to what the non-rich punters are going to have to choose from - somebody, somewhere, decides what your options are going to be 'this season' or some such shite.
You have to keep an eye out for a window of opportunity, then jump through it - eg for what seemed like at least 15 years the only shirts readily available were basic white, light blue, and some horrible insipid 'pastel' colours - then about 4 yrs ago the High St chains were all temporarily full of dark blues/reds/greens. I promptly grabbed my opportunity, and over a period of months bought about 20 shirts in these various darker hues. Of course the frequency at which I actually use them probably means I'll be wearing one for the first time inside the lidded box as it's lowered/incinerated.....

And I'm still waiting for somebody somewhere to decide that ties can go back to:
(a) plain colours with no textures/patterns/cartoon characters
(b) less than 3-4 inches wide, without putting you into C&W bootlace or Mod revival territory.

(Another bugbear - trying to get men's overcoats/raincoats that are longer than knee-length. You have to get those 'Aussie Outback' dust sheet things that make you look stupid if you're less than 6'2", or go Army Surplus (which is fine, but not smart enough for certain occasions).
If you're quite well-off, you can probably find lovely long black overcoats at Swankers or Tufti or whatever - but High St Punter Scum can usually just forget it....
(haha I actually found one from 'Next' in winter 97-98, and thus bought 2 as insurance while they were around. Clothes storing as squirrelly behaviour...)

i was suprised to find them even at H&M. it's like, when shoegazers grow up, they flip their stripes vertical and add collars.

mod revival ties = THE BEST KIND POSSIBLE!!! I inherited a whole collection from my father, many of them in amazing Liberty print floral/paisley/psychedelic patterns.

my scarf is stripey (not tripey like i originally typed) and from H&M. dark blue and dark red and light blue and ickle white stripes. ie. fantastic.

Is this a rip on me? Its true.

oh, and paisley shirts, a la steve kilbey on the cover of Heyday. i found the last vestiges of my collection of purple and green paisley button-downs when i unpacked. mmmmmmm.

sing along with donovan... i like my shirt, i like my shirt, i liiike my shirt...

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1 white YSL shirt
1 check white/blue shirt H&M
1 light beige shirt with cuff links
1 flowery one from H&M
2 tailored light blue shirts (made to go with a suit I bought)
and
40 or something shirts in a bag up the attic

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Ties r evil (unless worn by a girl)

Black shirts, dark blue shirts, those work for me...

Or, judging by present options, a Circus Clown.

(I think Ned implies that turkey might benefit from one too)

I wear only solid-coloured shirts (esp green, which I have mulitple shades of).

NO

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