1: Do you prefer dress shirts with a pocket on the left breast, or pocketless?
2: I'm currently looking for pocketless dress shirts. Where could I buy one?
The following stores only carry dress shirts that do have the left breast pocket:
Brooks Brothers
Joseph Banks
Nordstrom
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I prefer pocketless. Charles Tyrwhitt shirts are all pocketless, unless you decide to add one, and are pretty good quality.
No real preference though I guess my wardrobe leans towards having pockets.
That said, I have Brooks Brothers sport and dress shirts that do and don't have the pocket.
Keep shopping around and you'll find more. I try to go with a fitted pocketless shirt. When you find a shirt that fits well, buy a few of the same shirt. See if you can find a Macy's Men's store nearby. Some of the large mens-only stores have a nice range of price points to select from.
The sartorial rule is that a gentleman's shirt should never have a pocket, as it historically was a mark of a working-class man who needed the pocket for its utility (think of an architect, stevedore, gardener, plumber, etc.).
Few men today know the first thing about clothes as it is though, so you're far from likely to lose any points in the office for a dress shirt with a pocket. If, however, you're in a more formal dining scenario (not black tie per se, but a restaurant like Per Se, Le Bernardin, Steirereck, The Ledbury, et al.) or are at a particularly white-shoe firm (historically Morgan Stanley, Blackstone, and Carlyle carried such a reputation among the American firms) or a prominent European one (Rothschild), look around at the senior guys.
You'll see Charvet, Turnbull & Asser, Davies & Son, Gieves and Hawkes, Henry Poole, and similar cuts.
Is this critical for an analyst or associate? By no means. Live within your means. If you're willing to spring for decent shirts though, there's no reason why you should be dropping $80 for Brooks Brothers when the same price would get you a made-to-measure piece from Proper Cloth, Indochino, or any of their competitors who will craft you something fitted to your body and designed to your taste. If you're going that route and have the option, yes, the sartorially correct decision would be to omit the pocket.
Just curious, where do you personally get your shirts from?
For disposables or beaters that I wear casually at home or on weekends, Proper Cloth or some cheap fabrics from CEGO. For dress, Charvet, Turnbull & Asser, or finer fabrics from CEGO.
Amasing oh chap. The more I visit this site the more enlightened I seem to get. I would agree with you but nowadays most companies are happy people do not wear flip flops to work, even when I go for interviews I always wear a suit but the person/s interviewing are some times taken aback by why I am wearing a suit for an interview. Times have changed but I still love the feel of wearing a suit/tie/shirt to work because I feel comfortable in one and I think it is the uniform of business.
Thanks for the tip about pockets vs no pockets, this certain something I will keep in mind in my future shirt purchases.
Steirereck? Did not think anyone on WSO knew about that place haha
The same way the shirt with a pocket was once a necessity but now a nuisance, there could be a time in the future were this thread is about belts.
As more tailored pants become the norm, belts seem to be worn more for tradition than necessity.
Yes, you could be right about that.
Pocketless. Charles Tyrwhitt, especially if you have a slim build.
Most of my shirts have the one pocket, just to hold my mobile phone, I do have two shirts without one and is quite annoying because sometimes I forget and struggle to place my mobile phone.
What about your calculator, blue, yellow, and pink highlighters, red and blue pens, pencil, eraser and sharpener? I like to hold all of those in my shirt pocket to be ready on a moment's notice.
Lmao, sounds like you need a pocket for your secretary too, so you can hold her like a kangaroo.
Pocketless
Pocketless, not sure what I'd use the pocket for
Pocketless. Class issues aside, a pocket's main function on a shirt is to collect unsightly lint. In an office setting, it really has no utility.
Either go really cheap or go really expensive. No point going middle of the road imo as your just getting same quality as a cheap shirt but paying for "brand".
I go TM Lewin. The quality is not great (and it has nosedived in recent years) but they fit me extremely well and I can get them cheap and replace often.
If I was not going TM Lewin I would only really entertain Turnball & Asser or Charvet as would not see the point in spending good money on anything else.
As for pocket v pocketless....really? People under the age of 60 still wear pocketed shirts in finance? Terrible look and completely pointless. Go pocketless.
Don't ever wear a shirt that has a pocket.
For good value go with Charles Tyrwhitt. You can get four nice shirts for $200. They give you the choice to customize your shirt any way you like including type of collar, type of cuff, breast pocket or no breast pocket, monogram or not for no extra cost.
Charles Tyrwhitt shirts are great for the price, hard to beat as an intern or analyst. You can always get 4 for 200 and the quality is solid.
I recently ordered a few shirts off a website- www.indochino.com quality is decent, not exceptional but its the custom fit at that price point that makes it worthwhile. You can customize all features including pocket/no pocket.
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