Tuesday 4 June 2013

Wardrobe staples: The White Shirt


The Shirt Company is the latest addition to the London Assembly's product portfolio. With the aim of providing a collection of garments that can take our customer from the office to a party, these shirts have just enough twist to be note worthy wardrobe essentials. 


Penelope Shirt 95€

The Shirt Company was created with an aesthetic regard to the purity of the white shirt. - Which, in addition to its pivotal role in any closet, symbolises life stripped to its essentials. As designer and The Shirt Company’s Principal, Donna Middleton has dedicated herself to providing a luxurious product that’s innovative, radiates quality and embodies the quest for effortless style and simplicity.

A chameleon, the perfect white shirt comes in many guises, all of which have certain things in common. The perfect shirt fits well. Its sleeves are long and well shaped, its top button thoughtfully positioned. Its colour is a bright, complexion flattering white. The fact that it is made well -  and made to last -  goes without saying.

The devastatingly minimalist Penelope Shirt (above right) is a dress shirt as simple as it is effective. The pin-tucked front panels and stand collar of the Penelope create a very contemporary sort of grandeur. Wear with a tuxedo jacket, glossy stilettos and a hard case clutch.

Amelia Shirt 65€

My other favourite from the collection is the lovely Amelia shirt, which is a wardrobe staple that oozes minimalism and will work with almost anything.  It has an easy fit with a concealed front placket giving off a thoroughly contemporary look.  It can be worn loose or neatly tucked into trousers and skirts. It features a pleat in the back yoke seam which gently flairs out to the hem. 

Think Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday - a crisp, white, collared shirt is iconic, elegant and timeless. The shirts are manufactured entirely from fine Italian shirting fabric in a century old factory in the north of Italy. The panels, collars and cuffs are ingeniously brought together with diagonal and horizontal pin-tucks, frills, ruffles and pleats to create the most simple of classic shirts to the most flamboyant ones.

 

Every season the white shirt features in countless editorials as the essential wardrobe piece, and these lovelies from The Shirt Company have finally filled that gap in my wardrobe. Now if I could just find the perfect black tuxedo suit, I'd be happy ;-)

Bis gleich,
xx
A

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