The measure of any business shirt is how well it imitates cotton. John T. Molloy, author, Dress for Success
Real World, The: A universe in which the standard dress is shirt and tie and in which a person's working hours are defined as 9 to 5.
In Green Bay, Wisconsin, ten bowling shirts are considered a great wardrobe. Greg Koch
There are mistakes - and mistakes. There are true, copper-bottom mistakes like spelling the word "rabbit" with three Ms; wearing a black bra under a white shirt; or, to take a more masculine example, starting a land war in Asia. These are the kind of mistakes described by Mr. David Letterman as Brushes With Stupidity, because they have no reasonable chance of success. John Cleese
... and oftener changed their principles than their shirts. Dr. Young
The National Short-Sleeved Shirt Association says: Support your right to bare arms!
How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size? Woody Allen
Typical menswear during the mid-17th century consisted of a vest-like doublet with elbow-length sleeves, worn over a long-sleeved shirt.
Native Americans wore shirts made of two animal skins fastened together at the top.
The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt. Wm. Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost
Filipinos wear shirts made of fiber from the pineapple plant.
Men's coat sleeve buttons were used originally to fasten the cuffs back over the long lace frills of their shirt sleeves.
When they are initiated into their religion at age 7 or 10, Zoroastrian children receive the shirt and girdle. They are to wear these throughout their lives.
The US Patent Office categorizes dress shirts as Apparel Class 2, Subclass 116.
Speak softly and wear a loud aloha shirt.
Neckties have been important items of men's neckwear since the late 17th century.
A clerk was showing a lady a
very nice dress shirt and tie. "Now this," the clerk said, "is
absolutely elegant. It is perfect for a man-about-town."
"Could be," the woman replied, "but I'm looking more for something for a louse-around-the-house."
So many bachelors lie about their jobs, drive cars they can't afford, wear toupees and loose shirts that hide their stomachs...and say they want a "real woman"!
Like other boys his age, young Abe Lincoln wore rough shirts made of linen.
Until the 15th or 16th century buttons were made of clay, glass and gold, but were used only for decoration. Clothes were held shut with thorns and cords. Then some unsung inventor discovered that a button pushed through a slit in a piece of cloth would work as a fastener.
It's the theory of Jess Birnbaum, of Time magazine, that women with bad legs should stick to long shirts because they cover a multitude of shins.
I'd gladly give you the shirt off my back, if you'd take the rest of me with it.
All dress shirts should have removable plastic collar stays. The only exception is for button-down-collar shirts, which should have a soft, natural look. John T. Molloy
Who then devised the torment? Love.
Love is the unfamiliar Name..
Behind the hands that wove.
The intolerable shirt of flame.
Which human power cannot remove..
T.S. Eliot
Special note: "Flame" is not among the hundreds of fabrics available from Ripley Custom Shirts.
There is a story about an MIT student who spent an entire summer going to the Harvard football field every day wearing a black and white striped shirt, walking up and down the field for ten or fifteen minutes throwing birdseed all over the field, blowing a whistle, and walking off the field. At the end of the summer, it came time for the first Harvard home football team, the referee walked onto the field and blew the whistle, and the game had to be delayed for a half hour to wait for the birds to get off of the field. The guy wrote his thesis on this, and graduated.
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