DB shirt

"The brute covers himself, the rich man and the fop adorn themselves, the elegant man dresses!"

-Honore de Balzac

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Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:39 am

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Variations as to number and arrangement of buttons or studs, presence of placket or French fly, type of collar and cuffs, design of the double-breasted portion, etc., are possible.
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Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:53 am

I've seen that somewhere before. It was sort of a novelty in the 80's if memory serves.
luk-cha

Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:13 am

i have seen a D&G version of it but it remind me of a Chef's whites and will look slightly odd and uniform like in the style you have shown us!
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Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:16 am

Or Randolph Scott in the tunic of the Seventh Cavalry fighting Comanches somewhere on the frontier . . . .
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Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:18 pm

luk-cha wrote: it remind me of a Chef's whites and will look slightly odd and uniform like in the style you have shown us!
Ditto. Not a good look.
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Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:49 pm

Chef.

Or unshaven heroin-addict runway model.
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Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:04 pm

Concordia wrote:

Or unshaven heroin-addict runway model.
LOL. That's not hard to imagine either. A good shirt for a John Galliano [for Dior] or a Dolce & Gabbana underweight herion addicted male model.
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Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:54 am

It's a shirt, not a tunic, couch, but could all of you chaps kindly enlighten this culturally-challenged person with the reason why the design is seen to be associated with an unshaven heroin-addict runway model?
couch wrote:Or Randolph Scott in the tunic of the Seventh Cavalry fighting Comanches somewhere on the frontier . . . .
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Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:58 am

I think it's just the stereotype of a male model, which itself is extrapolated from the fashion-forward nature of the garment. Adam Ant wore shirts like this in the 80s, although those involved extreme fabrics, buttons and collars as well. There's a lot of imagination going on in this thread, perhaps you should take the advice as a "worst case scenario", if for instance the people you mix with also have rampant imaginations. :wink:
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Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:22 pm

This is probably just the nerd inside me, but that reminds me of Han Solo's shirts in the original Star Wars.
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Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:52 pm

Jovan the Un1337 wrote:This is probably just the nerd inside me, but that reminds me of Han Solo's shirts in the original Star Wars.
haha. Does anyone actually like DB shirts or are they considered a comical joke?
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Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:12 am

For a waiter?
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Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:50 am

Ironically, the more suitable a design is for formal wear, so is it more suitable for making a sensational dress, e.g., science fiction space station uniform, colourful tailcoats for floorshows.
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Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:43 am

Military rather than formal uniform in its origins, I'd hazard, though manton may correct me. At least as far back as the Napolieonic era, the fitted high-button DB tunic was a military style (think hussars). It influenced civilian dress in Brummel's day and uniforms ever since, including those of marching bands and chefs. I posted a photo of Gen. Geo. A. Custer (7th U.S. cavalry, 3rd quarter 19th century) in the photojournal wearing a DB tunic shirt with turndown collar (though not buttondown as in your sketch). For some reason I can't seem to link to it in this forum. One might stretch a point and call his outfit dashing, but never elegant, at least in alden's sense of the word. Quite a remarkable neckerchief and pin arrangement.
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