Interesting Article on Menswear

I'll ad a flip: I'm perhaps the only guy on this forum not owning a "denim work shirt" AND not even considering owning one .... that again might be due to some cultural difference between Europe and the major part of USA ... in Europe those kind of shirts would look a bit odd (at least in urban areas) ...

No denim work shirt for me, either.

you're the moderator .... might I plead for probation? or at least a grace period (let's say, until my LD order arrives*)?


* by then my sins are perhaps time-barred ....

Where do you live?
I think suits are very cool also. If I had opportunity to wear mine more I would.

I can go downtown Minneapolis, Chicago and New York and see someone in a denim work shirt or western shirt.
Yes of course people working manual jobs needing heavy shirts will traditionally wear work shirts and farmer/ranchers will wear western shirts.
There is no rule of style though for people living in a free country unless your in jail.
A few pictures of denim shirts. They are celebrities and I believe because of that they wear what they like, but we all can.   






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Don't get me wrong suits is what actually got me into style over all. At the end of college I wanted to get a job. So I needed a suit for interviews. So I got on the dappered forum and learned. One thing lead to another and I love jeans/watches/boots. And it was a natural progression.

Old navy distressed jeans, Gshock, timberlands turned to
Iron heart jeans, rolex, red wings.

The lowest one is England footballing legend James Franco. The first is actor, philanthropist, and heir to the British throne HRH David Beckham, Duke of Cornwall.

That ixi that @untucked has makes me want one. My lawless chambray sort of suffices for now, but I'm loving snappy-shirts lately so it's only a matter of time before a denim western shirt lands in my closet. As far as traditional indigo with white weft denim western shirt, I sort of side with you guys. I think the major draw is in the way denim ages, doing things that traditional shirting fabrics just don't do -- like improve when wrinkles set.

The only one I saw from Untucked that I wish I had ordered from LD was the tan x tan jacket.  I haven't seen any pure workshirts that I felt I must have, from any company, because all the nicer fabrics I've seen, mostly from Gustin, are of a fit that just does not work for me.

I'd agree that (US-style) workshirts aren't commonly worn in the UK either. I have a couple and wear them very occasionally but the only comments they ever receive are the, 'So, what's that then?' kind of questions - and that's rarely.

I think it stems from the fact that British working class always wore shirts that, today, would be considered more like dress shirts. Even farm workers wore clothing that would be considered smart in our era. Jeans were never a thing in the UK as far as heritage workwear is concerned. 'Sunday Best' was really just the suits and shirts that were the same as those you worked in but didn't actually work in.

As for Western shirts... no. Just, no. Only semi-excusable when worn as part of fancy dress or if you're a pre-post-ironic hipster with no access to a mirror.

As far as shorts go, that's changed a lot over the past 20 years. I can't really remember too many people (males over the age of 12, at least) wearing shorts in the summer months back in the late 80s/early 90s unless they were playing sports or vaguely related to sailing. In fact, I'm fairly certain the rise in short wearing in the UK can absolutely be traced back to when air fares to the States became much cheaper (mid-90s) and people started visting places where the residents lived in shorts. I can remember my first visit to San Francisco and thinking everyone looked like they should be at the beach... yet were in the middle of a large city. It may not be overly edifying, but I also have a feeling A&F's cargo shorts were fairly instrumental in making shorts more acceptable to wear in this country.

Personally, I've always worn shorts in the summer months, mainly because I don't play well in warmer temperatures so generally do anything I can to cool myself down as much as possible and also because I was into the skateboard scene from an early age and tended to gravitate towards classic American workshorts and then purpose made skate shorts as they became more readily available.

I have a pair of mid-to-dark grey shorts by The Hundreds that I'd happily live in and never take off if I could get away with it. They're one of very few items of clothing that I will genuinely cry over once they become worn through and no longer wearable.

Bolo tie.

I think for me it's part of the region I grew up in. Back in the day growing up I would go to friends quinceaneras in predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods and I would literally be the only "white boy" there. I'm talking huge parties in a ranch house on some acreages and you'd have about 100 vaqueros/caballeros straight from Mexico standing around partying, barbecuing, dancing, etc...and they'd all be dressed in their full vaquero get up and it was cool, good times, and they were always super freaking cool but you'd better know some Spanish, and luckily I know enough to say "I want some salsa please", etc...Anyways, I would just never dream of strolling in to an environment like that dressed in my 200 dollar Iron Heart Western shirt. It's just not gonna happen and I would never feel comfortable doing that when your in an environment with a bunch of actual "cowboys". It wouldn't go over well unless I was an actual Cowboy and I would surely be tested on that within a short amount of time upon arrival.

I also unknowingly found myself several times in an American Cowboy bar in my early drinking days. Same thing there. I'm just not going to stroll in wearing my hipster Western shirt when I've never been on a horse in my life. There would be no respect for me in that environment and I would be much better off and accepted just being who I am and wearing what I wear.

I realize this is more of a personal thing on my end but I'm good with leaving the Western shirts to the real vaqueros/cowboys. I know there's lots of guys on here and on other forums who love the western shirts and that's cool, more power to you, but I just can't do it....and bolo ties??? lol...no, just no.