Any thoughts on these shirts? Pompous ass look or professional?This is a serious question

NOOOOOOOOOO!

Absolutely not. Criminal. Up there with comedy ties.

They look ridiculous. Like a 12 year-old chav. I'd rather go topless.

I’d rather be dragged into a cold damp room, forced to sit down on a stone bench and watch High School Musical on continuous loop for a week. Followed by an enforced career in BAS.

in my office 2 people wear shirts like this. 1 is from Luton and 1 is from Canada. i am sure it is a coincidence

I'm rocking a white shirt with a blue collar today. The girls are diggin' it. It looks dope.

NO way!

Watch out! Your credibility in the office is hanging by a thread!! Don't go there - there's a reason all the other responses are so unanimous on this!

Do you also have red braces, slicked-back hair and a briefcase-sized mobile phone?

Make sure you also wear your tie very loose (fashion tie/catwalk look) and wear shorts with it. Floppy hair would go a treat with it too.

I think you guys are being unfair. Have you not seen the Birmingham City manager Steve Bruce recently on Match of the Day. His blue shirt /white collar combo, paunch and sweaty red face shows he's keeping it real. None of this pauncy over-groomed moisturised GQ-reading metrosexual nonsense.

well if you want to see another example of the blue shirt white collar look, theres a picture in todays FT with the CFO of GM and he looks like a complete twat.

There's a chap here (Some kind of HR manager, i'm pretty sure in his mind, he thinks running the whole show) seen him today, wearing a blue shirt with white collar.... C*nt!! i'd have more respect for him if he came into the office covered in leaches!

I'm very surprised that no one has yet referred to it as a Billionaire shirt. As in, if you’re a Billionaire you can wear it. If not, you look a c@nt. I thought this was common parlance...

According to last weekend's FT weekend supplement white colars on coloured shirts are making a big comeback.

Financial journalist = nerd. Nerds do not have fashion sense! Therefore FT advice on fashion not worth the paper it's written on, in my opinion.

I thought this was a comment on the merging of the working and middle class in post modern society. Thank god it isn't!! :0)

Is there even a working class anymore? Though everyone was petit bourgoise these days.

I think this is not professional dress. It is fashion or style. In office it looks like a pompouss ass.

I would put you on a first warning for less.

if you've already bought one, take a marker pen and colour in the collar to match the body!

Wear one of those NYC caps and a Hollister hoodie

No,it doesn't give you professional look. The complete shirt should either be in white or in blue. This looks nice!!

It's good to see that this shirt has remained unacceptable since this thread was started 5 years ago

I'll admit to the occasional faux pas - I incurred the wrath and contempt of a tailor by asking for belt loops to be fitted to my side-buckle suit trousers, thereby in his eyes busting me back to the ranks of middle managers. Sorry, but those waistband buckles just don't work for me..

it was acceptable in the 80's

so were red braces...

Detoilet rocking the blue shirt white collar look on site today. Also ties when no-one else here wears one...looking good boys!

Detoilet rocking the blue shirt white collar look on site today. Also ties when no-one else here wears one...looking good boys!

Detoilet rocking the blue shirt white collar look on site today. Also ties when no-one else here wears one...looking good boys!

Detoilet rocking the blue shirt white collar look on site today. Also ties when no-one else here wears one...looking good boys!

Detoilet rocking the blue shirt white collar look on site today. Also ties when no-one else here wears one...looking good boys!

The whole office dress thing bothers me. If I had my way, I would turn up to work every day wearing demin jeans and a t-shirt. Possibly with the waistline button undone so that it gives my gut a bit more space to breathe after lunchtime. And definitely not ironed - what a waste of time that would be. My new dress code would be so much more comfortable and practical than current standards. No worrying about getting creases or dirt on wool trousers or anything like that either. "Fashion" does my head in.

It always makes me smile when the over dressed person gives the "Im a professional, I always wear a tie and will refuse to take off my suit jacket regardless of the temperature.."... a few months later ...sat there in just a shirt and trousers smiling at the newbie wearing a full-on suit refusing to take off the jacket or tie. Repeat process. For life.

Yes... personally I can't bear wearing those straightjackets and that rag around my neck!To be honest, if it were acceptable I'd quite happily parade around the office in my underpants and my metallica t-shirt on most days (I'm not a metallica devotee by the way, I just happened to get that t-shirt for 15p at a car boot sale and quite liked the look of it). It saves on doing the laundry.I'd far rather have that than people wasting hours each week doing ironing or forking out 30 quid a month on dry cleaning.

Have to vehmently disagree here. The way I see it, every morning when I am going to client site, I am going to war. Putting on the suit, tie, shiny shoes, expensive accessories is my armour; its the only protection you get in the world of MC. No way would I want to go into work in my scruffs, without the sheen whats left? Actual deliverables? No thanks. Spin, sheen and telling the client what they want to hear, thats all we have to separate us from mere mortals ;-)

Oh yes, I agree entierly that one "has" to do it. But I'd prefer not to. :)

Eh must be an impersonator, I never wear a white collar shows up inadvertent splashes

Onto the next pet peeve (in the UK, anyway): brown shoes?

Brown shoes are fine as long as you are wearing a brown belt. Very Dutch.Far worse is a mobile phone belt holster. Especially when they have one for "personal" and one for "work" mobile.

Even better when worn with beige chinos.

Brown shoes aren't a problem for me, as long as you have the right suit. Brown shoes, black suit is a no.I can't believe Im giving fashion advice. I have no fashion sense.

It's not the shoe colour that is the primary issue (aside of not wearing brown with a black suit of course) it's the shape. When did people think wearing shoes with square toes became acceptable?

@Mars - around 1660 Mr Pedantique

in my youth at Andersen Consulting, a partner sent one of my co-intakers home for wearing grey shoes in the office..

[quote]@Mars - around 1660 Mr Pedantique[/quote]Dont even get me started on button down collars with ties..

or short-sleeved shirts with ties. Especially striped short-sleeved shirts with a patterned tie.

@rc - that was, and remains, an entirely justifiable reponse.I once had a colleague who was convinced that THE look was a grey Prince of Wales double breasted suit, pailsey tie and ox-blood loafers.It was the late 80's.

@mars - where do you stand on the recent resurgence of the waistcoat/three piece suit?

@Cool the resurgence of the 3 piece is to be welcomed in moderation I think...but not on anyone under the age of say mid 30s. I'm also all in favour of pocket squares, cravats and the like - not all at the same time of course. Critical issue - pocket squares? Fold or fluff?

Fold at work. Fluff I'd expect to see in some hip art studio. Not referring to hip as the body part here)

The Bow Tie has recently returned - but into the casual/smart casual wardrobe rather than business. Where do we stand on this divisive issue?

A number of slick young dudes at my daughter's streetdance club are currently rocking the bow tie, comboed-up with banging checked shirt over a white T, with only the top button of the shirt done up. With dayglo Converse and a Beiber wave under a trilby, it is one the top looks for todays 7-10 year olds.If you are seven and you are developing a dance style that is strictly old school, then I'd say the bow is a genuine option.

That's quite a nice market.Did I read that right though? The only button of the shirt done up is the exact opposite of my shirt at the moment!? Is that how far I am from fashion now.. Plus I'm not wearing a t-shirt underneath so my naked belly would be resting on the desk.

How about a bow tie that has a little motor in it so that you can have it spin around every now and then?Or maybe a propellor hat?

My bow tie and monocle combo go down a treat.

When it hits the stores, Google Monocle will be a ...?

..item for sale?

...good discussion topic for when you're summoned by HR?

Black shirts... discussAlso, thoughts on pure black suits?

There is one guy where I work who wears a black polo neck underneath his suit jacket. I constantly have to bite my tongue... I keep wanting to refer to him as the "milk tray man".

That would look great with a rolled up hem, wine or yellow socks, and brogues.

Black shirt/black suit - it becomes all about texture so has to be expensive. And slightly ironic. But not so ironic that you have to tell people 'this is ironic'. That would remove the irony. Which might also remove creases. Irony that is.

If you wear a shiney black shirt, you could end up looking like Chris Tarrant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

I'm thinking of getting the blue shirt with white collar tomorrow. I'll let you know how i get on...

black tie on black shirt -> estate agents' stag night

Opinions on the best quality shirts? Before anyone says Thomas Pink please don't; it's overpriced tat. Personal favourite is Eton. I'd like to say slim fit but even on the internet one shouldn't lie.

Primark does me just fine, nobody can tell the difference really and I like to think most people judge the person not the cloth they're wearing. Take Lieutenant Columbo for instance, he does ok. so does Simon Cowbell in his denim jeans with black work shoes. Even Paris Hilton gets away with wearing tat. I save my pennies for things like days out for my kids :)

Striped short sleeve shirts with ties! Say it ain't so...