Button up shirts

[ASinclair]

This is an interesting thread, and, as always, thanks for the helpful pictures, Richard.

[Jack Daw]

Coming from the pipe band world, I've been wearing solid (what Brits call selfcoloured) shirts with Highland Dress for over 35 years. Pipe bands wear white, grey, blue... but always solid.

I had noticed over the years that in Scotland it was customary to wear check shirts with tweed.

It wasn't until I joined this site that I learned that there was a quite specific sort of check shirt called a Tattersall shirt; being a visual artist I was very interested in the parameters of the thing, and it appears to be quite specific, a shirt like this



that is, a two-colour check pattern, the checks evenly spaced and sized, on a white (or offwhite) backround. Patterns similar to this but using three or four colours appear to be called "country check".

Here's a 'country check' shirt



The collar is a spread collar, or straight, never the very pointy American style collar, and usually not a buttondown collar.

Thing is, shirts meeting these exact specs are very hard to find here in the USA. I've scoured entire malls and not found a single one.

Here's a good thread about them a while back

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...-shirts-80996/

Charles Tyrwhitt is where I go for such shirts:

http://www.ctshirts.com/default.aspx?q=|||||||||||||||

[Nik]

Because of my calling in church I'm often wearing a white dress shirt when I dress it up. And to go a little fancier I have a nice white french cuff shirt. That with some silk ties looks really sharp.

Away, say at work I will wear a colored shirt, no patters. And for a semi-casual, but more informal, I'll wear a polo.

I'll look for a few pics and post later today.

-Nik

Edit - Here are the pics.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...316_100920.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...412decd60f.jpg