Why your white shirt “doesn’t work” and ruins all the pictures

If there’s anything eternal about fashion, it’s the endless love for white shirts. From year to year, designers rush between trends and do everything possible to produce a collection that will amaze the world. Miu Miu silk ballet flats, Gucci blunt-toed shoes, jeans integrated into a Diesel boxer, Prada chainmail skirts – everyone is trying to invent something new or at least rethink the old. The “face control” in front of the podium are the best dress models, but white shirts are allowed to go there a priori. And this is not blat, but a sign of indispensability.

It is rare for ready-to-wear lines to do without shirts. With them, complex jackets, trousers and raincoats are simply styled, which look spectacular precisely thanks to the ideal basis – a kind of background, a blank canvas. In general, there is only one conclusion: it is impossible to create a daily and professional work capsule without a white shirt. The question is why this miracle trick, praised by designers and us, doesn’t always work?

The most common mistake is transparent material. If you wear a shirt under, for example, a black sundress, then it should at least match the density of the second layer. Combinations with knitted vests, sweaters and jackets work the same way: the denser the fabric of the garment, the denser the shirt should be. Otherwise, an imbalance is obtained and your white sleeves look faded and cheap.

When choosing clothes for the summer, you subconsciously want to buy something natural, cotton, linen. Only here is the catch: sitting drinking a coffee on the summer veranda, you risk being crumpled from head to toe. And no matter how you iron your white shirt before going out, it will still spoil the whole look when it hesitates. What to do? Take a closer look at the composition, choose clothes made of non-iron type fabric, with a small addition of polyester and artificial silk.

Now, we’re not talking about business shirts – they have their own rules. But, if you’ve chosen a model that matches your pod in both density and material, and it still feels out of place, then it’s probably a matter of length. What exactly do you wear your shirt with? For jeans, an elongated version is suitable, for an oversized blazer – fitted or straight, but in size, for a slip dress – tied at the waist or shortened. Your shirt may not “play” with the second thing. Try tying it up or tucking it into your pants – is that better? So it’s a matter of length, and it’s fixable.