good fit. ok so i'm going to ask for a gift certificate to uniqlo for my bday gift.
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
basically all i wear above the waist these days is short and long-sleeved uniqlo linen shirts.
― caek, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i prefer snug polos, some of the sleeves on those short sleeves ones can be awkward for a skinnier dude like myself
― omar little, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ2NTg3Mjk2N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNTE2NzY2._V1._SX300_SY400_.jpg
― http://tinyurl.com/bapppp (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
roll them, seriously
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
wait until u become married fatteyxposts
― velko, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
rolling short sleeve shirt sleeves seems unwieldy, no?
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
that is the look i fear with oversizing short sleeve shirts.
― caek, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
the malcolm in the middle dad, i mean
I usually recommend dressing for yr physique but I gotta say, the short-sleeved B Sherman-style tailored shirt in plaid or pattern or (esp) tartan check is one thing that, for me, the shirt itself takes precedence. It doesn't matter if yr arms don't fill out the sleeves. I pref tucked-in, but untucked is okay w me too. Button all the buttons, or leave the top one open. Do your thing. Just wear the shirt.
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
the only decent short-sleeve shirts i have are western ones from second hand shops. my favorite one is approaching RIP status, it's a thin shirt to start with and the left shoulder is practically transparent (possibly from the strap of my bike bag). ;_;
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
xp
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/MV5BMTQ2NTg3Mjk2N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTY.jpg
― caek, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
^ sleeves are hueg!
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
That shirt is just plain too big for him. American Dad problem, dressing like toddlers, see many ILX threads over the years.
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i just don't understand why sleeves like that are manufcatured
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
a good length seems to be about 3 inches above the elbow, for these types of shirts
― omar little, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Sleeve circumference matters less than sleeve length!! People w skinny arms, do not despair! Paradoxically, the solution is to show more arm, not less.
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://fineartamerica.com/images-medium/stan-the-wizard-and-the-magic-mushrooms-ii-j-w-baker.jpg
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I simply cannot bring myself to wear these.
― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
(this thread title is maybe a little bit imprecise fwiw b/c "button-down" properly refers to the collar, not the front)
(not to be pedantic but the first image itt is not a "button-down")
(just fyi)
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.bestinthecountry.co.uk/product_images/1467417012008222123.jpg
― http://tinyurl.com/bapppp (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
everyone i've ever talked to in my life uses "button-down" to refer to the buttons that keep a shirt closed
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i always thought button-down was american for button-up (not that we call them "button-up")
― caek, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
sleeves are hueg
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
everyone you've ever talked to in your life is wrong
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
We've done this before, I think button-down should only refer to the collar. Using it for the other kind is just laziness.
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
do you call a button-down collar an Oxford collar?
― caek, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
This guy's a handsome motherfucker and even still, he looks like he wears a beeper on his belt-loop.
http://www.omdembroidery.com/pics/SP11.jpg
― http://tinyurl.com/bapppp (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
not so much, although often it's helpful to roll them before putting them on. this isn't like the big over-and-over roll you put into a long-sleeve shirt -- half the time it just means turning the hem back one time. if you have particularly thin arms and are good with fabric, you must even pull off the sort of loose, rounded roll I'm incapable of and always envy on people's jeans. it's really not too odd -- imagine a 1950s work shirt -- and a lot of shirts now are sort of built for it.
this is a pretty horrible example of what I mean -- I'm not sure I like it here -- but it's hard to find pictures, so here's one example: http://slimages.macys.com/is/image/MCY/products/4/optimized/522954_fpx.tif?bgc=255,255,255&wid=327&qlt=90,0&layer=comp&op_sharpen=0&resMode=bicub&op_usm=0.7,1.0,0.5,0&fmt=jpeg
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ I mean, that's sort of a lame shirt with a built-in roll -- I wish I could find a picture of just a 1950s-style button shirt with the sleeves rolled over once
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
how do you suggest i differentiate in casual conversation between a shirt that has buttons on the front and one that does not
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, it makes sense that there is a term to distinguish between shirts and t-shirts that emphasizes the buttons, and you don't often need to to talk about the buttons on the collar, and when you do you can call it an Oxford collar, so appropriating "button-down/up" for the main buttons seems sensible to me.
― caek, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
http://images.smarter.com/300x300x15/30/37/6197237.jpg
SUMMER DUDE: "Wow, you were right! Clearing the brush last winter did help keep leaves off the driveway!"WINTER DUDE: "You ... look ... like... a dork!!!!"
― http://tinyurl.com/bapppp (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
what i sort of hate are the shirts that are sold pre-rolled, buttoned-up somewhere along the sleeve.
― omar little, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
also I was trying to make the thread quickly to lure people from the other thread, yes yes button-down means collar, "button-up" seems to me like how only women in the U.S. refer to shirts, blah blah blah, if you're a style mod and you care just make it "button shirt" and chillax
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
A woven shirt (ie not a stretchy fabric) with buttons down the front is called a "shirt".
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.uomosport.com/v/vspfiles/photos/BUBCS1502S19-1.jpg
"Ladies call me 'The Sting'."
― http://tinyurl.com/bapppp (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
more like dorky dad/ghost of dorkiness future
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
xp, he looks like benjamin horne's brother
― caek, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
http://ai.pricegrabber.com/pi/7/27/22/72722539_160.jpg
"This shirt came free with my new encyclopedia set!"
― http://tinyurl.com/bapppp (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
A shirt with buttons and a collar that IS stretchy is a polo shirt. A shirt with buttons that isn't stretchy and is worn casually and has some kind of loud print on it is a "sport shirt". A shirt that IS stretchy and DOESN'T have a collar or buttons is a "T-shirt". And so on.
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
this is sorta pitiful, it's not like we couldn't image-search a whole bunch of dorky-ass examples of "pants" or "coats" or a million things that you wear because you know it's possible to wear decent ones
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
you're a shirt
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vnjQIQAtXOk/SgJlrYy_QdI/AAAAAAAACGk/7AvVvix9OaI/s400/mjolk-short-sleeve-shirt-bow-tie.jpg
― http://tinyurl.com/bapppp (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
they call that tie "the hitler"
― omar little, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
that's a nice shirt, though
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
thank you laurel for the taxonomy <3
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean c'mon dudes.
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
guayaberas: classic? or only-for-cubanos?
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
http://kennedyembroidery.com/images/10-13-05/BG-8213S-web.jpg
― generic xanax order cialis buy viagra cheap tramadol (Dr. Phil), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Guayabera w green army shorts and Sambas = A+++ :D style mayhem!
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
NASA Control Room Engineer 1968.
But this is hot-cha-cha! NASA Control Room Engineer plus good hair or tattoos or something of your own that's modern, this is very "Houston, we have liftoff."
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
i love it
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
tattoos otm
yeah the NASA square look is a key component to my style but YMMV
― there is no there there (elmo argonaut), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
definitely key component of mine, although i guess that's not entirely surprising
― caek, Monday, 3 August 2009 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
http://z.about.com/d/space/1/0/J/8/1/S70-35096.jpg
Hot-ch-ch-cha!
― http://tinyurl.com/bapppp (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Granted, even nerds had clothing cut better than what most adults where today, but you had better be athletic as hell to pull off that white button-up.
― ice cr?m paint job (milo z), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
What are those, NASA guys? They got in a morning exercise, I'm sure.
― reared on Shakespeare (kenan), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought they were a bunch of Mormons listening to Tabernacle records.
― http://tinyurl.com/bapppp (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I am going to have to start posting random shirts from chain-store websites to counteract all this image-search goofery.
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
oh great, ILX won't let me
http://images.urbanoutfitters.com/is/image/UrbanOutfitters/16009151_01_b
ooo, NASA
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
folx need to size up
pimping for steroids yet again
― velko, Monday, 3 August 2009 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been holding off posting pics of mods and skinheads all day. Don't tempt me.
― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
that's a hot shirt
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
where is that from?
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Just Urban Outfitters, cause every other chain place I thought to try had an uncopyable Flash layout. (I usually get excited about finding shirts with flat cuts on the bottom, but that might actually be a little too flat, especially the way it's fitted.)
― nabisco, Monday, 3 August 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Too long on that guy, too, which is saying something, as I'm assuming that guy is tall
it does look a tad long
― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Monday, 3 August 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Lesson: don't tuck it in = good to go.
― sir-mounter (Eric H.), Monday, 3 August 2009 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://manolomen.com/images/Marc%20Jacobs%20short-sleeve%20shirt.jpg
― velko, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
would wear
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
the shirt, too
― sir-mounter (Eric H.), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
― nabisco, Monday, August 3, 2009 9:23 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark
this was like the best advice i've ever gotten
― valerie (surm), Thursday, 21 October 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― some droopy HOOS in makeup (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 21 October 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
fun history of the guayabera at the miami history museum, online exhibit here http://www.historymiami.org/guayabera
circa 1897http://www.historymiami.org/guayabera-assets/images/lg_3-spanish-sergeant.jpg
― passion it person (La Lechera), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link