Fashion Advice: Placket or no placket?
When ordering custom shirts, do you guys recommend with placket or without? My shirts will be worn with AND without a tie.
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A placket is a very standard feature for a shirt. If your work environment is more traditional, consider going with the traditional look, i.e. placket. If there are more fashion-forward individuals in your group and it's okay, go without it.
http://www.shirtsmyway.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/placket.jpg
I like it. Make sure you get the pin for the collar too.
That's rich.
Who the hell wear's plackets at the office? The IT guys and 40 year old middle managers?
I love fashion in the US. Suits and shirts look like trash bags just in case people blow-up after a couple years.
Placket simply refers to the double layer of fabric where the buttons fasten. I've literally never seen an embroidered one until that link.
What the..
You can get shirts without plackets? I've never heard of that before.
I like french plackets for white shirts. honestly it doesn't make that much of a difference. fly plackets are hideous though.
If you're in Toronto then no plackets is the way to go. Take a look at people who get off at King or Union station.
That said, plackets are okay with simple pattern shirts. Since often custom made shirts mess up the pattern when it gets to the placket, you end up with an ugly break in the pattern which looks terrible if your shirts have more sophisticated patterns.
I seem to recall Peter Parvez on King Street was a good custom shirt maker. Is he still there?
I think either is fine, but it just depends on the purpose of the shirt, IMO. If I'm going for a french cuff shirt, definitely go with no placket. If I'm getting an oxford cloth button down, placket. If you're just going for just a plain white or plain light blue shirt for the office, just depends on your preference and I guess geography. I tend to think of no placket as a more formal, more European look, but not in a way that would draw negative attention to you if you were in the U.S., whereas a placket is a more American look.
I usually get no placket on my custom shirts, but that's because I generally have nicer/more formal shirts custom made and just buy my casual and buttondown shirts OTR.
But if this is just a shirt for the office, then I think it's personal preference as to which look (stated above) that you're going for. If you're going to wear it mainly to the office and at night in a more formal environment, no placket is what I would personally go for.
Placket
Whats a placket
Boom: http://www.office-dress-shirts.com/shirt_placket.html
I think the no placket look is appropriate for "really dressing up". By that, I mean going to a formal event such as a wedding (cuff links, patent leather shoes, etc.).
For normal business formal (suit and tie), I think placket is the way to go. Plus I've always thought a shirt looks naked without a placket.
Fly front shirt AKA hidden placket (Originally Posted: 06/29/2012)
Do you guys know how fly front shirts / shirts with hidden plackets are regarded? These are just the dress shirts with an extra flap that covers the buttons like this:
http://www.barneys.com/Alexandre-Plokhov-Hidden-Placket-Dress-Shirt/501…
I heard that it's a French look and some people like them, but is this true in business? Or do people that wear these shirts just look like douchebags?
You wouldn't look like a douche; you'd look like Chairman Mao.
Dude, I accidentally bought a shirt like this and returned it...just no. Do not do this.
Looking Asian.
What?
I wouldn't bother. If you're a rainmaker MD, or some prodigy trader, you can do whatever the fuck you want and nobody will give you shit. As an Analyst, not so much. Learn to love the white brooks dress shirt.
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