speaking of shirts...

[ChattanCat]

I've been to a Goodwill shop that just opened up in town. I haven't found any Ghillie shirts yet. Guess I'll just have to keep looking.

[fluter]

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For kilt wear I like black (of course ) short sleeved Dickie work shirts.

The great thing about work and uniform shirts is that typically they have two (count 'em) pockets. This is a favorite feature, which seems increasingly hard to find!

I don't buy polo shirts often, but at the end of summer scored two medium blue ones on the clearance rack. Again, polos with a pocket are highly prized.

[Panache]

I love thrift stores and an avid watcher of clearance racks when it comes to shirts. It takes a while, but any good hunter knows the value of patience when stalking his quarry. Sometimes you return from the hunt with nothing. Sometimes you come home with a great prize.

Cheers

Jamie

[Nanook]

I'd keep to good white cotton broadcloth for day wear use with heavyweight kilts and tweed jackets. Shirts don't have to come from Turnbull & Asser but they should be well constructed and crisp. Marks & Spencer (UK) and Nordstrom in the US offer reasonable broadcloth shirts at acceptable prices. Well fitting shirts are rare and from what I've seen in pictures of much of the guests at this site I'd suggest many will have need to seek made to measure--- again, need not be T&A.

With a black Argyll (or its variants) I'd look to a bit finer a cloth, perhaps a poplin and if not white (really depends upon facial colour and time of year) then blue or pink (black is reserved for squadristi, ruffians, pop stars and John Travolta). Patterns unless one as a keen sense of fashion should best be left to the weave.

Good, well made shirts are the best choice since I've found that they tend to not only look and feel better when new but also survive better wear and wash. Cheap discount and supermarket shirts are, in general, about as suitable for ones wardrobe as baseball caps to Ascot. "False economy" applies just as well to shirts as to kilts and shoes. High priced does not always mean quality or workmanship but just as one can't expect a $20 kilt to be anything other than tat, one can't expect a $20 shirt--- despite being made in the 3rd world with near slave labor, no environmental controls and sold in warehouses known best for "low prices" and their exploited and oppressed workforce--- to be anything more than cheap ...

[ChattanCat]

The great thing about work and uniform shirts is that typically they have two (count 'em) pockets. This is a favorite feature, which seems increasingly hard to find!

I don't buy polo shirts often, but at the end of summer scored two medium blue ones on the clearance rack. Again, polos with a pocket are highly prized.

My father-in-law used to say "Your about as handy as two pockets on a shirt"