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For business casual and for casual during the summer, I prefer to wear short-sleeved broadcloth shirts instead of polo/golf shirts. They're cooler and they have a pocket. (Edit: without a tie, of course!)
Elsewhere I've read there is no place for short-sleeved "dress" shirts, period. Either one wears a long-sleeved dress shirt and rolls up the sleeves or wears a polo/golf shirt. What say you?
 
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In temperate climates, I favor rolled long sleeves as the better look. For business casual, it is my go to. I don't have a polo shirt in my wardrobe. I find them constraining and hot.

I do have a few linen short sleeve shirts I wear in extremely hot resort conditions (40 - 50 c) where I find long sleeves simply too hot to bear. These work for me in SE Asia.

My grandfather (1914 - 1991) rocked the high waist trouser short sleeve look during the long hot Georgia summers. I like the retro vibe of this look when I wear it, but it isn't something I would adapt as a regular wardrobe choice as I look as if I stepped out of a scene in "To Kill a Mockingbird".

Cheers,

BSR
 
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Pr B said:
For business casual and for casual during the summer, I prefer to wear short-sleeved broadcloth shirts instead of polo/golf shirts. They're cooler and they have a pocket.
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As long as you are not wearing a necktie with those shirts--and you evidently aren't--I don't see a problem.

Elsewhere I've read there is no place for short-sleeved "dress" shirts, period. Either one wears a long-sleeved dress shirt and rolls up the sleeves or wears a polo/golf shirt.
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Every now and then, you'll happen upon another list of purported sartorial "rules." Keep in mind that what you will have will actually be nothing more than guidelines.

I don't care for the Dilbert look, but, in my view, a short-sleeve broadcloth shirt sans necktie is fine. In fact, if the shirt has a bit of pattern to it, it's quite the 1960's suburban look.
 
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It's fine at NASA!

I don't know why there's such pushback to short sleeve button-up shirts - probably just that pernicious tendency of fashion to demonize the practical (that, and not everyone lives in the SE USA).

I wear plenty of short-sleeved shirts, but they're the untucked variety (guyabera, camp shirts, aloha shirts when the mood strikes). Even though I could probably pull off the short-sleeve-broadcloth-and-necktie look (I'm a physicist), I don't.

Nowadays, too, there's air conditioning everywhere and no one really needs to walk outside, apart from the quick jog from car to door, so there's less *actual* need for short sleeves in business. I can remember the last time I wore a suit in a non-airconditioned building (Manila, The British Library, 1995), and I was wearing a linen suit with a short-sleeve dress shirt... and it actually does make an *enormous* difference, sleeves-versus-none.

Like so many things, I think if you owned it as a look, it would be fine: be the guy who always wears short-sleeve dress shirts. Rock a bow tie with it for an unforgettable look. It's funny how if you are good at what you do, and you wear an uncommon fashion consistently, it becomes "cool".

DH
 
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Charles Dana said:
As long as you are not wearing a necktie with those shirts--and you evidently aren't--I don't see a problem.

Every now and then, you'll happen upon another list of purported sartorial "rules." Keep in mind that what you will have will actually be nothing more than guidelines.

I don't care for the Dilbert look, but, in my view, a short-sleeve broadcloth shirt sans necktie is fine. In fact, if the shirt has a bit of pattern to it, it's quite the 1960's suburban look.
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Exactly. Just don't wear a neck tie, OP. For gents with a middle age paunch a short-sleeved broadcloth shirt is usually more flattering than a polo/golf shirt.
 
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I suppose wearing short-sleeved dress shirts is something I learned in the military, as we very rarely wore our service-dress blouse (AKA Class A, or Combination 1). And when not wearing a flight suit or fatigues, we always wore the short-sleeved uniform shirt.
 
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As I understand your description as to what you wear, I wear nothing but similar short sleeved shirts during summer months. The dress shirts mentioned in the caution are shirts intended exclusively for wear with a tie and jacket. All such shirts I wear are long sleeved.

I know that in some areas of the South it is customary to wear actual short sleeved dress shirts, and while I would not, I am sympathetic to the practice. Sanity has its place. :D
 
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Hello All!,

I live in a part of the country that is very hot and dry year round. Therefore, I have a fair number of short sleeved button down dress shirts. None have pockets and all are in some type of textured fabric such as jacquard, dobby, etc. I wear them regularly and plan on adding a few more in the future. Why? Because I like them and wearing them makes me happy! Sometimes, in fact often times, my personal opinion is to wear what you enjoy and ignore the "rules" if wearing a particular item makes you feel confident. However, do this within reason of course. Once again though this is just my personal opinion and nothing more. Fun discussion!
 
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cloth_guy5 said:
I like them and wearing them makes me happy! Sometimes, in fact often times, my personal opinion is to wear what you enjoy and ignore the "rules" if wearing a particular item makes you feel confident. However, do this within reason of course.
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The above comments constitute a perfect example of a perfectly sensible approach to wearing clothes.
 
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If you never take your coat off, and safety pin shirt cuffs in the coat cuffs, who's going to know? And wear a tie.
Not a fan of polo shirts. To hot in the summer. OK during spring and fall. Still don't like them. It seems like 40 years ago they were much better. I think the companies got greedy and sell junk, nowadays.
 
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Personally I like short sleeve dress shirts, but of course, no tie. I've worn both point and buttondown collars with short sleeve shirts. I rarely ever undo the second button on shirts but for me it's required with short sleeve shirts. Maybe because they are a bit more casual.
 
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