you must live in the middle of nowhere. i spent $200 on shirts 20 years ago, and i’m not even in finance.
I don’t like those shirts ten years ago,and I certainly don’t like them on zombies.
As mentioned above, only smarmy types seem to wear them.
I believe that style originates at least as far back as the Edwardian era, when collars and cuffs were sold separately from shirts. You might not change your shirt every day, but you would have to put on a clean, starched collar. And while shirt patterns got adventurous, it was more economical to just have plain white collars.
Zombies have no fashion sense whatsoever. Vampires, now, vampires generally are trendsetters, and you’ll only see them (IF you see them at all) in clothes so cool that they sublimate.
That’s the first time I ever saw them - mid sixties - and I just thought they were so different and fashionable. When I see them today I like them because of those almost fifty year old memories.
They’ve always bugged me too. I think they look ugly.
As a woman, it’s fascinating to listen to men talk about their wardrobes. A completely foreign land. I had no idea so much thought went into dress shirts.
Keep it up, gents.
You have to realize that this is a message board where people start threads asking if they should wear suits to a job interview or arguing why they should be allowed to wear sweatpants to a wedding. A significant number of posters work in IT where apparently the convention is to dress like a slob.
That said, those shirts are so 2002. Most people just dress “Big-4 business casual” - light blue shirts and black pants. Those collar / cuff shirts, suspenders, pocket squares, power ties, cuflinks and monograms can come across as a bit of an over the top affectation.
Aside from the fact that most salaried professionals don’t get paid for it in America, there are a million things I’d rather do on the weekend than go to the office, including doing absolutely nothing.
Are you guys hobos or farmers or something?
I always associate those type of shirts with car dealers, just something vaguely sleazy about them.
I recently ordered some shirts from J. Hilburn. A representative comes to your home and takes measurements for your first order, after that you can just order directly from their site. I have to say that they are the best looking shirts I’ve ever owned.
I’d say they’re more 1992. They look very American Psycho to me.
Great. Someone got me one of these shirts as a Christmas present.
Also:
I’m nearly 34 and I wear slim fit shirts.
So…that’s just all my current shirts and my new one that are either ugly or soon to be unusable…
Too much funny! Just to wrap up this comment with the other Office Space references I give you, the #1 Biggest Asshole in Cinema (scroll down to #1).
I owned one in 1982, when they were just coming back in as part of the “Wall Street” look. They look great with a tie but just wrong when open and tieless.
Excellent point. My butler would be totally mortified if I asked him to iron a $200 dollar shirt.
Grand wit aside, the white collar over another color is what is known as ‘timeless’ style.
To put it in perspective, I think as soon as Jay-Z wears one, you will see that it is the epitome of fashion.
Or Patriots owner Robert Kraft. I agree they’re ugly. Although when he wears red tie with them, he’s wearing team colors. Not all team owners can pull that off!
It’s nice if you get overtime pay but most of us are salaried and don’t get such perks. Anyway, what they are referring to is this. Gary Cole deserved an Oscar for his frighteningly-realistic portrayal of everybody’s boss.
I had a pale blue with white collar shirt back in the early 80’s (similar to the one pictured here) with small round “button holes” on the collar for a threaded bar. The bar would go under the know of your tie to keep the collar together (?) and lift the knot.
I do not look back fondly on 80’s yuppie macho posturing. 
Blue shirt with white collar and French cuffs, red power tie and the collar bar to push the tie’s knot forward as a surrogate Adam’s apple. Let’s pack this away in the same box with the parachute pants and hope we never have to see it again.
I’ve been told that original purpose of these shirts was for economy. The collar and cuffs of a dress shirt are the first things to fray, so you got contrasting collars and cuffs so that your tailor could replace them when they wore out and extend the life of the garment. Matching a new blue collar to an old blue shirt would be nearly impossible, so just make them white.