Placket front vs plain front

[T.K.]

I believe everybody is talking about the same thing. To be entirely correct I understand that every shirt has a placket, either folded towards the outside or to the inside in case of a plain front. I'm not sure whether technically the fly front conceals only buttons or the placket as well, but I believe the latter is the case.

[hectorm]

My understanding is that the front placket of a shirt is a panel which may or may not hide the buttons. All of my shirts have them.
T.K. and Luca seem to be saying something else, that a dress shirt worn with a long tie would be better with no placket at all, merely a single fold of material with the button holes sewn through. A small detail perhaps, but my initial sense is that they are right.

Do you mean that you never wear long ties?

[rodes]

Perhaps we need some photos.
I wear long ties every day. I think the claim is that perhaps dress shirts worn with long ties are best made without superfluous folds of material, i.e. plackets. Accepting, as I have for years, the standard way that the vast majority of shirts are made, I have never thought about this.

[NJS]

The use of the expression 'dress shirts' produces a problem too because, in some countries, it means 'shirts for suits' and in others it means 'evening shirts'.
NJS

[hectorm]

I think the claim is that perhaps dress shirts worn with long ties are best made without superfluous folds of material, i.e. plackets.

Hardly superfluous.
Almost always do I put my shirt on before my necktie In those moments -between one and the other- I appreciate to have plackets on my shirts. I like the finish and structure that they add. The very few dress shirts that I have without plackets look somehow "weak" and they seem to be begging to be covered by a tie.
Having said that, I confess that I like sport summer linen shirts without the placket.