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If you can't find a shirt this summer, you're just being difficult. There's a bountiful supply that will suit even the fussiest shopper. From colour and print explosions to calmer and sleeker shirts, there's at least one style that will catch your eye.
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paul smith
(© Paul Smith 2000)
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Colours and prints
This season Paul Smith's colourful shirts are the loudest and boldest - lemon, pinks, both hot and candy, turquoise, oranges, reds and greens abound. Abstract prints, pyjama stripes and bright all-over floral patterns cover short and long sleeve shirts alike. Colourful embroidery of flowers, or Indian-style patterns in gold thread, decorate silk and cotton shirts.
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Ben Sherman, raiding their archives for prints, use Indian restaurant wallpaper, over-size tropical fish and flowers and laughing Bhuddas. Easier on the pocket is Top Man, for their fun Hawaiian-styles - white flowers on red backgrounds, surfers silhouetted against a tropical sunset and turquoise bamboo prints.
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ben sherman
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bailey
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Sleeves
Shirt sleeves are predominantly short for summer but still vary in length and detail. Uth and Bailey (formerly Jigsaw) has elbow length sleeves with knitted hems (Uth) or quirky, traditional button up cuffs (Bailey). Reiss's short sleeves are detailed with little triangular cut-outs, matching the hems of shirts, or folded stitched hems.
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Burro's sleeves range from none at all - for shirts cut high on the shoulder (also at Uth) - to capped - reaching to biceps - to three quarter length - stopping just below elbows. Denim bowling-style shirts at Ted Baker have double bands of colour finishing off just-to-elbow sleeves.
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burro
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burro
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Details
It was a big trend last summer on trousers, now drawstrings have moved onto shirts. Burro, Ted Baker and Boxfresh have all used this detail, both on full button through shirts and three button numbers. Although, this is a decorative detail rather than functional unless you want to be wearing a smock.
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Another detail is concealed buttons - hidden by a strip of fabric running the shirt's length at Ted Baker, Boxfresh and Reiss giving shirts a sleek, tidy finish. Pockets are either 'invisible', Reiss and Ted Baker, being noticeable only by the tell-tale opening slit, or are 3D-style - Boxfresh, Reiss - standing away from the body when full, so as not to pull shirts out of shape.
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reiss
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