I’ve broken new ground in casual wear at my place of work. Normally I wear a tucked in, long-sleeved, button-down shirt, without a tie. I’ve branched out this summer with a blocky, tail-less, untucked short-sleeved shirt, and, God help me, I like it.
The best ones so far have been these from Quicksilver. I’m happy to buy more of these, but it might be nice to branch out.
The parameters:
Can’t be an obvious Aloha shirt. It would have to be so subtle as to be not Aloha.
Can’t have strange pockets or excess design, like a Mexican wedding shirt or guayabera.
Cannot be a wrinkle fest, I’m not ironing.
Has to be blunt cut hemline, not a shirt-tail “I should be tucked in” hem.
Can’t be an obvious bowling shirt.
Think Hank from Breaking Bad, Angel Ortiz from Dexter
Any ideas, sources, hot tips?
Ex officio makes very high quality easy care shirts in the style you like. I love these for daily wear and travel. You can wash them in the sink wring them out, hang them up, and the next morning they look like they are fresh from the dry cleaners.
Kohls has a “casual button down” subcategory in their men’s shirts department online (not sure about in-store). I also like that style and have found a few good ones at Marshall’s/TJMax.
A friend of mine likes shirts similar to the Quicksilver in the OP, but hates the price.
He has a search on eBay that works he has perfected. He is looking for new-with-tags shirts that someone is selling, usually a gift that they don’t care for. He has a few new items every day, he low-ball bids on a subset of that and wins on maybe one every 30 - 60 days.