18th/19th Century Loose Pullover Shirts

[Anonymous No.14528301]

What are your thoughts on the deliberately wide look of 18th through 19th century “poet” or “pirate” style shirts? Most wearers were neither of those two occupations, but those are terms that popularly refer to these antiquated fashioned shirts. Not all of them had frills or multiple pleats, either. Have you seen examples of unusually wide shirts being worn effectively, within recent years? Do you like the look of a loose dress shirt?

[Anonymous No.14528305]

>>14528301
leave them in the past

[Anonymous No.14528307]

Here are a couple of rather distressed, lower class looking examples of those types of shirts, in linen fabric as most of them historically were. Almost always, a waistcoat covered the shirt, due to standards of dressing, as without one would be considered undressed.

[Anonymous No.14528314]

A waistcoat was also a practical way to contain some of the extra looseness of the shirt fabrics.

[Anonymous No.14528315]

I hope these shirts with frills come back into fashion. They look nice, but it would also demand a proper attire to look decent.
I think they are ugly as they are in your pic, though.

[Anonymous No.14528319]

Here is a striped shirt.

[Anonymous No.14528325]

>>14528315
Here is a frilled shirt. Upper class looking.

[Anonymous No.14528327]

Another striped one, probably common amongst tradesmen and seafarers.

[Anonymous No.14528337]

>>14528325
Looks nice, but it is unwearable as of now.
Now that i think about it, i'm pretty sure i have seen a shirt very similar to the one in the OP in my local Ralph Lauren store just last week, although with a slightly faded and stained look. Maybe it is something rich potheads wear casually nowadays, idk.

[Anonymous No.14528340]

>>14528337
Did the shirt have the polo shirt pullover look, or was it buttoned all the way down, like most modern shirts?

[Anonymous No.14528346]

unfortunately you'd be a LARPer if you wore this rn

[Anonymous No.14528351]

>>14528340
It was similar to these, only had 2/3 buttons.

[Anonymous No.14528368]

>>14528346
Probably so.

>>14528351
Interesting. I wonder if it is a slightly slimmer version of the style? Here’s a waistcoat I’m considering to buy, if I’m not quite sold on the shirts, yet. It has size adjustment strings in the back for the waist, and the stand-up collar could be folded down for a more modern and conventional look, basically a shawl collar. It would pair nicely with a contemporary slimmer styled dress shirt, too, especially white, blue, and beige, as well as striped and checked variations. I own a very similar waistcoat, but it has a lighter color, with a square/flat bottom, and has a notch lapel look when folded down, rather than shawl collar.

[Anonymous No.14528503]

>wahh can't wear this without looking like an out if place larper
/cgl/ exists and they don't give a fuck. Are you more of a pussy than a bunch of frilly women?

[Anonymous No.14528544]

Popover shirts.
Not as loose as actual 18th century ones but the right compromise in terms of style both with regular or mao collar

[Anonymous No.14528545]

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[Anonymous No.14528547]

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[Anonymous No.14528554]

>>14528544
>>14528545
>>14528547
looks like shit

[Anonymous No.14528568]

>>14528554
So? Not my problem, just answered to the anon who asked if there was a slimmer version of the style

[Anonymous No.14529254]

[Anonymous No.14529257]

>>14528544
>>14528545
>>14528547
>>14528568
Thanks. I think that I might still opt for a little looser in shirts like those, due to actually having to pull them over the head, but I’m glad slim ones exist.

[Anonymous No.14530275]

>>14528301

I love them. Very practical in the summer. I usually tuck them into well-worn jeans, burgundy penny loafers and add a neck-cloth. Gotten quite few compliments too.
You can pull them off, just fine. Just ask yourself - are you dressing to fit in or to stand out?

[Anonymous No.14530285]

>>14530275
Well, my answer is usually that I dress for myself, with perhaps others taken into consideration for certain kinds of events. I think there is probably a place for a historical shirt style, as long as it's maybe after the ruff collars era of the first half of the 17th century. Shirts after that seem basically like they're capable of looking normal for today, with some tailoring to take them in more, but a large part of the historic look would be lost if I turned one of them into slim fits.

[Anonymous No.14530918]

Zara made one of those some time ago
pic related

[Anonymous No.14530989]

I like to wear shirts similar this under vests. I'm female and the vests I wear tend to be feminine, and over all I like the look and the feel. Each of the shirts I have are low quality, though, exclusively thrift finds and not exactly like OP, but it's what I'm going for.

[Anonymous No.14531894]

>>14530918
>>14530989
Nice contributions, thanks.

[Anonymous No.14531949]

Saw an arts fag wearing one of these at a party
I wanted to beat him up for being a fag but he had a super hot gf and I felt rekt