A few years in the past, we discontinued the denim shirts offered on PS largely due to points with producing and storing the material. Since then we’ve been engaged on options, and at last settled on a Japanese-woven cotton final 12 months.
These are two shirts we’ve produced with it – a pale blue and a washed black, made by 100 Fingers. I’m significantly happy with the colors.
A whole lot of denim shirts are available in blues which might be stronger or darker than this, and I discover them much less helpful. Or put it one other manner – there’s nothing fallacious with these colors, however this shade’s similarity to a blue gown shirt or a blue oxford makes it extremely helpful.
You possibly can put on it in each state of affairs the place you’d in any other case put on a blue oxford shirt, nevertheless it brings a unique model, a unique flavour. A suggestion of western clothes and even work put on, fairly than uptown preppiness.
A denim shirt like this with denims is one among my favorite combos, as readers can be conscious. I’ve destroyed a number of from Al Bazar in addition to a number of PS denim ones by way of relentless put on through the years.
The mix with denims and the biscuit-coloured cashmere is simply so good.
The new black shirt, in the meantime, is intentionally washed to offer it a right away delicate color, and solely delicate fading across the seams and edges.
It’ll fade a little bit extra over time, however the goal was to supply one thing that was constant and predictable – that had a ready-made fade and wouldn’t change its model over time.
Black cottons like this are rather a lot simpler to put on once they’re light – in the identical manner as black denims. They’re softer, decrease distinction, and consequently sit higher with issues just like the gray tweed jacket and brown flannels under. A robust, flat black can be starker and even cheap-looking.
It additionally means in a mixture like this you allow the robust black to leathers – the belt and the footwear.
The brand new denim shirts have the identical physique match as all the opposite PS shirts. Or fairly, the identical physique match as the Selvedge Chambray, and the identical as the Oxfords after a few washes. As common readers will know, the oxfords have a little bit shrinkage so are made a little bit greater to begin with. The brand new jeans are the identical because the chambray, i.e. just about no shrinkage.
The one model distinction with the brand new denim shirts is the purpose collar. I didn’t wish to do a button-down for these, however appreciated the look of the button-downs when unbuttoned. So we began with that form, and simply decreased the size.
I just like the consequence. The factors tuck properly beneath jacket lapels, and the size (8cm) is halfway between the puny issues mainstream manufacturers often provide, and the classic leisure-shirt look that you simply see sometimes, however I discover a little bit overwhelming.
I wouldn’t put on these shirts with a tie fairly often, however you may; there’s a pair centimetres of tie hole when the collar is mounted.
The shirts value £230 plus VAT, and can be found now on the store web site right here. You’ll find the dimensions chart there too.
One factor to notice is that though we name the blue a denim, it’s a plain weave whereas the black is a twill. It simply suited the color extra.
The make is similar because the PS Chambray shirts from 100 Fingers, with a variety of handwork – not simply purposeful issues like hand-attached collars and sleeves (to offer 3D form and work in additional extra) however buttonholes and buttons, plus hand-stitching on most of the seams, together with the entrance placket.
This hand work is especially good on the washed black, because the stitches are highlighted by the fading, identical to the waves on the fringe of the cuff or collar.
The jackets proven are my Eduardo de Simone cashmere and Anthology gray tweed (the latter with each shirts). The trousers are char-brown flannels from Fox/Whitcomb and nineties Levi’s 501s. The footwear are each from Edward Inexperienced: brown-suede Piccadilly and black-cordovan Greenwich.
The mix of the black shirt, brown trousers and gray jacket is a really ‘cold-colour’ one, and I discover myself swapping spherical these colors (along with cream) on a regular basis.
I’ve additionally included a picture under of the opposite time I’ve proven this black shirt, in all-black outfit final summer season, after we have been engaged on the prototype.
Different store updates
- Friday Polos – Restocking in two weeks, with a further mid-grey
- Tapered T-shirts – No agency date sadly, however hopefully quickly. Huge points getting manufacturing out of Japan
- Chambray shirts – Restock coming later this month
- Hand-framed Cotton Sweater – Restock coming later this month
- Best Polos – Restock coming later this month
- Informal Fashion Information – Restock coming subsequent month
- Suede Overshirt – Offered out however new inventory ordered for September
- Dartmoor and Best Crewneck – Restocked in cream and gray, and navy and darkish gray, respectively
- Oxford shirts and fabric – Restocked in white, blue, blue stripe, inexperienced stripe and pink stripe
