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Graphic Tees vs Plain Tees: When the Print Earns Its Place
Style The drawer audit Plain by default Printed by exception, when the print is yours. Keep the two or three graphic tees you would buy again today and make everything...
What to Wear With a Light Blue T-Shirt
Pairings A light blue t-shirt goes with stone, tan, olive, grey, charcoal and black without any thought at all. The pairing that needs a second of it is the one...
Does Your Golf Hat Have to Match Your Polo?
No. The hat should not match the polo, and matching is the riskier of the two moves, not the safe one. A hat that matches is a hat trying to...
A Print Is a Solid Until Somebody Walks Up
Prints and patterns The ruling Every print has a distance at which it stops reading as a print, and contrast sets that distance. The size of the motif is not...
What to Wear Under a Quarter Zip
At eight the layer is on. By eleven it is off. By two it is over the back of a chair, and the shirt under it has been doing the...
Should You Wear an Undershirt Under a T-Shirt?
Layering Under a dress shirt, yes. Under a T-shirt, almost never, because an undershirt protects a layer you cannot wash often, and a tee is already washable. Two situations still...
Can You Wear a Polo With Jeans? The Denim Decides
The Short Answer The jeans decide this, not the polo. Yes, a polo works with jeans, and it works in more rooms than most men give it credit for. The...
T-Shirt Colors for Your Skin Tone: Contrast Beats Undertone
Color The short answer is that warm skin takes beige, brown, maroon and olive, and cool skin takes white, charcoal grey and a mid blue. The longer answer, and the...
Can You Wear a Polo to a Job Interview?
A polo is the correct shirt for an interview at a company where the staff work in T-shirts, and it is correct at a business casual company only when a...
Why Do T-Shirts Get Holes at the Bottom?
Care Moths are not doing this. The small holes low on the front of a T-shirt are abrasion, worn through where the hem grinds against something hard at your waistline:...
Can You Wear a Polo to a Wedding?
The short answer A polo belongs at a wedding in one situation only: the invitation says casual or beach casual, or names no code at all and the wedding happens...
Do T-Shirts Shrink? What Moves in the Wash and What Does Not
Care Cotton shrinks. Polyester and spandex do not, and rayon barely does, so how much a T-shirt moves in the wash is decided by the blend on the label rather...
