It's not a bad looking shirt by any means, except for the button sleeve. The contraption that holds your shirt sleeves rolled kills the entire shirt: training wheels for shirt sleeves. Apparently, the human male cannot be trusted to roll his own sleeves up. We now need a button to hold it in place. Other stores have adopted the button sleeve, but most are inside the mall, where men are misguided into buying crappy, poorly cut cotton shirts and don't know any better. However, this shirt, partially directed at the heritage market, is merely insulting. Even if this was directed at the mall crowd, rolling your sleeves is not an action hard to perfect and is not in any need of assistance. As far as I know, most of us can roll our sleeves just fine. And this is why Mr. Carleton isn't a humanist.
I concur....unless one is a British soldier humping thru the jungles of Burma in WW II there is no excuse for this button contraption.
ReplyDeleteMen wear a lot of vestigial details on their clothes, like safari shirts with more pockets and roll tabs than needed. They aren't made, in fact, for dumb men who can't keep their sleeves rolled. If we jettisoned all clothing details we don't need today, a lot of the things we wear wouldn't pass the test.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet these roll tabs still look bad.
ReplyDeleteThe holder-upper thngs are good for fishing. I have several shirts with them.
ReplyDeleteI almost bought this shirt. Good think I read this post. This shirt fuckin blows.
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