“A better short-sleeved shirt shouldn’t be one thing I ever thought of earlier than, however I do really prefer it.”
I’ve to say I loved the method of launching this shirt final yr – it’s enjoyable to make one thing that challenges individuals, pushing at a number of preconceptions.
A brief-sleeved good shirt shouldn’t be for everybody. An extended-sleeved shirt, often with sleeves rolled up, is quite a bit simpler to put on in summer time and it’s what I put on more often than not.
However there’s a good, really quite elegant look to a short-sleeved shirt with a pair of sharp trousers and footwear. That’s what I needed to create, and present, and it was good seeing many readers take that on final summer time.
The quote above is from a reader on the time. One other stated: “Having worn this for a number of weeks, I discover myself liking it quite a bit, which is sweet because it was an impulse purchase.
“[The fit] makes it not seem as a costume shirt with the sleeves reduce off, or as an overshirt. [And the collar] helps differentiate it from an overshirt, which often has a camp collar.”
Personally, I respect the coolness of a short-sleeve shirt on a very popular day, reminiscent of in Florence, the place the pictures above had been taken.
And particularly below an overshirt, so you do not have two layers of sleeves and might push again these of the overshirt. (I’d be sporting the outer layer within the first place for the sake of practicality, and pockets.)
Nevertheless, I don’t have a lot expertise of dwelling in humid circumstances, so it was good to listen to readers including their experiences there too.
“Brief-sleeve linen shirts are an important working or travelling in and round NE/SE Asia,” stated one. “I can perceive some individuals’s reticence, however the practicality and coolness of them in scorching, humid summers wins over. Thirty-seven levels for the previous three days in Japan with 60%+ humidity calls for short-sleeve shirts.”
I feel one purpose this type of blouse has a foul rap is that it’s often unflattering in its design. A tiny collar, sq. physique and enormous, flapping sleeves mix to drown lots of guys.
So I labored exhausting on the sleeve, making one thing that was extra akin to a rolled-up T-shirt than the sq. sleeve of an Aloha shirt. It’s massive within the shoulder, however tapered, so slim however not tight (except you are notably muscly).
I received’t go into all of the element on the design once more, but when anybody missed it the primary time round, it is in the launch piece right here.
At this time’s article is to let everybody know that we’ve added a blue/white striped model this summer time, with a few small tweaks.
We’ve made the collar a tiny bit smaller (a half centimetre shorter on the again) and given it a lighter weight lining.
The liner doesn’t really feel that totally different to begin with, nevertheless it softens after the primary wash, producing one thing that feels virtually like an unlined type, however nonetheless with fine condition. That is nonetheless definitively not a comfortable, camp-collar shirt.
That’s only for the striped choice. So you’ve the selection now between two collars within the two colors. As was the case final yr, I’m to listen to what everybody thinks after they’ve tried them.
All the opposite particulars are the identical. The identical curving, rolling collar of all PS shirts; an extended physique size to make it clearly for tucking in, not out; and handmade particulars (each purposeful and aesthetic) from Luca’s workshop in Naples.
Obtainable small to further massive, in Spence Bryson Irish linen, which suggests it retains it form higher than most Italian linens and isn’t in any method clear.
Fairly attractively, the blue and white stripe reveals off the feel of the linen properly, as you possibly can see beneath. That’s one thing I didn’t actually respect till I noticed a completed shirt, nevertheless it’s a very nice characteristic.
Elsewhere in these pictures I’m pictured sporting the pale-olive linen PS Overshirt (beneath) over the white short-sleeve.
We ordered triple the variety of the PS Overshirts in comparison with final yr, as they had been so common. Consequently many of the permutations are nonetheless obtainable – virtually all sizes within the olive and the brown, and the smaller ones within the navy.
The trousers are the brown linen from my Sexton swimsuit right here. And the footwear, predictably, are black Sagans from Baudoin & Lange.
Sun shades, as mentioned in the Dege jacket publish lately, are the Californian mannequin from Meyrowitz.
The short-sleeved shirt is obtainable from the PS store now. Particulars:
- Made in Naples within the atelier of bespoke shirtmaker Luca Avitabile
- Hand-sewn buttons, buttonholes, armholes and collar
- Makes use of Irish linen from Spence Bryson, and cream mother-of-pearl buttons
- Minimize lengthy, like a costume shirt, and supposed to solely be worn tucked in
- Makes use of the usual PS button-down collar, which rolls simply and naturally, when undone or certainly with a tie
- Identical physique match because the PS denim shirts (and oxford shirts after washing)
- Blue stripe mannequin has a 0.5cm decrease collar and lighter weight lining
- Ships from the UK and obtainable in 4 sizes, small to further massive
- Extra particulars on the PS store right here
Measurements:
| Small (37) | Medium (39) | Massive (41) | Additional massive (43) | |
| Chest | 51.5cm | 55 | 60 | 62.5 |
| Waist | 47 | 51 | 55 | 58.5 |
| Yoke | 45.5 | 47.5 | 49.5 | 52 |
| Sleeve width at hem | 17.5 | 18 | 19 | 20.5 |
| Sleeve size | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23.5 |
