Undershirts and fashion

[alfred russel]

Sparked by a slate article, like so many topics on languish.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/gentleman_scholar/2014/07/undershirts_and_fashion_should_a_gentleman_wear_a_t_shirt_under_a_dress.html

The article states that an exposed undershirt when wearing a dress shirt is a fashion faux pas. I found this immediately concerning, because I dress like that a lot. Alarmed, I started looking around and it seems most guys are doing the same as me--though not the europeans.

My general rule is that I lean toward crew necks, but if it is a dark shirt I sometimes go with a v neck that can't be seen. I tend to think that if you wear a v neck the undershirt should stay invisible. With a light shirt you can often seen the outline.

So what says languish?

[derspiess]

White crew neck. Exposed sometimes.  Seems not to be the thing with the young uns but don't care.

[DontSayBanana]

As stocky and hairy as I am?  If the top button's not done, you'd better believe there's a white crew neck underneath.  Young'uns be damned- I'm not skinny enough for the way they dress.

[Ed Anger]

I wear a slip

[DGuller]

I used to expose the undershirt proudly, to show that I can afford it.  However, eventually I did hear that it's a fashion faux-pas, so when it was time to get a new undershirt, I got a v-neck.

[garbon]

I used to expose the undershirt proudly, to show that I can afford it.

[Ed Anger]

IN SOVIET RUSSIA, SHIRT WEARS YOU

[DGuller]

V-necks are more convenient in any case.  They're much easier to put on and take off, and I don't even need to take my glasses off to do it.

[Admiral Yi]

Don't wear undershirts.

[Ideologue]

Should a gentleman wear a t-shirt under a dress?  Absolutely not.

I often wear t-shirts under dress shirts though, largely because I don't want to sweat through a powder blue button-up when it's hot, and because I don't want to shiver when it's cold.  I went undershirtless today, however, for it was pleasant and I was wearing a dark purple shirt.

[Eddie Teach]

I often wear t-shirts under dress shirts though, largely because I don't want to sweat through a powder blue button-up when it's hot, and because I don't want to shiver when it's cold.

Also, you can rewear the same shirt without putting it through the wash. 

[Razgovory]

Depends if you sweat a lot.

[Ideologue]

I often wear t-shirts under dress shirts though, largely because I don't want to sweat through a powder blue button-up when it's hot, and because I don't want to shiver when it's cold.

Also, you can rewear the same shirt without putting it through the wash. 

It's true that I don't like to spend a lot of money to adhere to our "business casual" standard, which would make more sense if we saw clients more often than "maybe once, usually never."  Although granted there was that weird client that sent two guys from their outside counsel to hang out with us for like a week, even though they made it obvious that the reason they were sent out was that they were junior lawyers (they were marginally-trained legal neophytes who also knew nothing about doc review).

I will say that one of them dressed sharp as a fucking tack.  Never an undershirt, but only an always-pressed dress shirt with matching socks, his head crowned by an immaculate pompadour.  Really good looking guy if you're into femmy twinks with a 50s flavor, and some folks are.  I honestly am jealous of the little fucker's hair.

[DontSayBanana]

Should a gentleman wear a t-shirt under a dress?  Absolutely not.

I often wear t-shirts under dress shirts though, largely because I don't want to sweat through a powder blue button-up when it's hot, and because I don't want to shiver when it's cold.  I went undershirtless today, however, for it was pleasant and I was wearing a dark purple shirt.

Ick.  Those powder blue dress shirts tend to be almost transparent on me.  Nobody wants to see my nipples, let alone my dark chest hair.

[Jaron]

Agreed.