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Let's Fight About This Gingham Shirt
Uh, sure, if you say so. I've never seen one of these. I have a gingham shirt that is black and orange. Princeton colors, but I've never even seen the place. Just a coincidence.
MAY 10, 1:51 PM
Let’s Fight About This Gingham Shirt
Rachel Kurzius https://twitter.com/Curious_Kurz
This shirt made its presence known in a serious way in the WAMU newsroom on Friday.
Rachel Sadon / DCist
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The streets of D.C. are indeed lousy with gingham button-down shirts (Disclosure: your trusted author has one, and almost wore it today). The button down is so popular that, more than a year ago the Wall Street Journal begged its readers to “Stop Dressing Like Every Other Guy: Give Up Your Gingham Shirts,” noting that the shirt began its trek towards ubiquity more than a decade ago in post-recession 2008, and “endures precisely because it’s safely conformist and has just the right amount of whimsy for most guys (which is to say: very little).”
When the Wall Street Journal is going after your fashion choices, you ought to stop and think. But a mere glance at the streets of Washington makes it clear that District denizens are not taking their fashion advice from the business-minded broadsheet.
For a city with a reputation for taking few sartorial risks, this tweet resonated in a big way, and opened up some space to rib D.C. with stereotypes nearly as well-worn as the shirt.
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Let’s Fight About This Gingham Shirt
Rachel Kurzius https://twitter.com/Curious_Kurz
This shirt made its presence known in a serious way in the WAMU newsroom on Friday.
Rachel Sadon / DCist
It’s officially This Shirt season for the straight men of DC
Link to tweet
/photo
The streets of D.C. are indeed lousy with gingham button-down shirts (Disclosure: your trusted author has one, and almost wore it today). The button down is so popular that, more than a year ago the Wall Street Journal begged its readers to “Stop Dressing Like Every Other Guy: Give Up Your Gingham Shirts,” noting that the shirt began its trek towards ubiquity more than a decade ago in post-recession 2008, and “endures precisely because it’s safely conformist and has just the right amount of whimsy for most guys (which is to say: very little).”
When the Wall Street Journal is going after your fashion choices, you ought to stop and think. But a mere glance at the streets of Washington makes it clear that District denizens are not taking their fashion advice from the business-minded broadsheet.
For a city with a reputation for taking few sartorial risks, this tweet resonated in a big way, and opened up some space to rib D.C. with stereotypes nearly as well-worn as the shirt.
....
STYLE & FASHION | FASHION
Stop Dressing Like Every Other Guy: Give Up Your Gingham Shirts
Gingham shirts are reliable, but ubiquitous. Our guide on how to separate yourself from the check-wearing clones
By Jacob Gallagher
March 8, 2018 11:06 a.m. ET
ON A RECENT VISIT to a Manhattan bar, I counted four men wearing what appeared to be the exact same blue-and-white gingham button-up shirt. I’d witnessed this scene many times before: For the past decade the gingham shirt has been the men’s fashion equivalent of the unkillable “Blob” that Steve McQueen battled on-screen in 1958. So many men own an iteration of the checked standby—particularly the version sold by J. Crew—that in 2014 an Instagram account, @ThatJCrewGinghamShirt began documenting its ubiquity. The feed’s 17,000-plus followers chuckle at photos of men, often several at once, snapped in their shirts at the...
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Stop Dressing Like Every Other Guy: Give Up Your Gingham Shirts
Gingham shirts are reliable, but ubiquitous. Our guide on how to separate yourself from the check-wearing clones
By Jacob Gallagher
March 8, 2018 11:06 a.m. ET
ON A RECENT VISIT to a Manhattan bar, I counted four men wearing what appeared to be the exact same blue-and-white gingham button-up shirt. I’d witnessed this scene many times before: For the past decade the gingham shirt has been the men’s fashion equivalent of the unkillable “Blob” that Steve McQueen battled on-screen in 1958. So many men own an iteration of the checked standby—particularly the version sold by J. Crew—that in 2014 an Instagram account, @ThatJCrewGinghamShirt began documenting its ubiquity. The feed’s 17,000-plus followers chuckle at photos of men, often several at once, snapped in their shirts at the...
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The Wall Street Journal. referred to this Instagram site:
https://www.instagram.com/thatjcrewginghamshirt/
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I own very few gingham shirts and don't like it that much. I mostly wear microchecks or vertical stripes.
But the real struggle are the jobs that require a suit and tie in the DC humid summers, for those who walk/transit. That's just brutal. My neighbor goes to work in just an undershirt and packs the rest to change when he gets to the office. I did invest in some linen jackets without linings for summer, but can't do suits.
