[Vecchio Vespa]

What are your favorites? I am partial to Madras (not patchwork), seersucker in traditional blue and white or pink and white stripes, and linen In solid colors. Long sleeves or short? If long, turned up or buttoned? I lean towards long and turned up. Tucked or untucked? I like the comfort of untucked but only with linen that has a squared off tail.

 

[Charles Dana]

What are your favorites? I am partial to Madras (not patchwork), seersucker in traditional blue and white or pink and white stripes, and linen In solid colors. Long sleeves or short? If long, turned up or buttoned? I lean towards long and turned up. Tucked or untucked? I like the comfort of untucked but only with linen that has a squared off tail.

My preferences substantially align with yours. The difference is that with seersucker I enjoy a variety of colors and patterns in addition to the blue and pink stripes; with linen, I like a variety of patterns as well as solids.

 

[Flanderian]

Torri Richard cotton lawn!

Aloha!

 

[fishertw]

Not much of a linen fan but do favor madras and seersucker in most all colors. I do tend to buy long sleeves, living in the mountains when it can get cool in the evenings but mostly roll up the sleeves most days.

 

[Vecchio Vespa]

My preferences substantially align with yours. The difference is that with seersucker I enjoy a variety of colors and patterns in addition to the blue and pink stripes; with linen, I like a variety of patterns as well as solids.

I envy your climate!

 

[Dhaller]

My favorite lately is Tori Richard's "cotton lawn" (echoing Flanderian, from whom I learned about the brand in the first place.) Honestly, it's pretty tough to beat for summer comfort.

I also quite like Tori Richard's machine washable silk (I just don't buy shirts which need to be dry cleaned), though they only have a few models in stock currently.

Traditional fabrics, I like Madras (real Madras, not the kind of twill Brooks Brothers has passed off as Madras lately), and linen too. I'm okay with rumpledness.

If I can find it, I really like hemp. I have a Japanese jinbei in hemp, and it's really great in hot, muggy weather (like Japan in summer). Prana sometimes does a hemp shirt in the warmer seasons; probably any progressive-y yoga-esque brand will have some hemp apparel. Oh, Prana has some hemp trousers (using the word loosely) as well, which are great as home wear. A bit pajama-ish to actually wear out of the house, though. I'd love to have a hemp utility shirt in some kind of olive or Japanese indigo.

Seersucker I never quite settled with as shirting, I think because I always find I have to iron seersucker shirts... and I simply refuse to live in a world of ironing seersucker. Too absurdist!

DH

 

[drpeter]

I have the whole range of summer shirts, pretty much -- Madras, short-sleeved OCBDs, linen, Manila shirts with thin cotton, seersucker, guayabera, etc. I like camp collar shirts with square tails, for wearing untucked, but I will also wear regular tuck-in shirts untucked with shorts or trousers. But most of the time, I am in a T shirt and shorts!

 

[Vecchio Vespa]

One of the best summer shirts I ever had was a 1960s Gant short sleeve button down made of batiste. That fabric seems to have vanished. It was a very open weave and lightweight fabric.

 

[challer]

Linen for summer in hot humid DC Metro. 100%

 

[Peak and Pine]

I have only recently begun to wear summer shirts. Prior, I just went shirtless, which meant they wouldn't serve me at McDonald's so I would use the drive-thru and they wouldn't notice.

 

[Peak and Pine]

Now that I have begun to wear shirts in the summer I'm tossing out all my halter tops, even the madras ones.

 

[Peak and Pine]

I am surprised I don't see more guys in the summer wearing a plain white tee with a pack of smokes rolled up in the sleeve. Pearl, the crossing guard doesn't count. I'm talking guys.

 

[Vecchio Vespa]

I am surprised I don't see more guys in the summer wearing a plain white tee with a pack of smokes rolled up in the sleeve. Pearl, the crossing guard doesn't count. I'm talking guys.

Last time I did that it was a pack of candy Lucky Strikes, circa 1958.

 

[drpeter]

Last time I did that it was a pack of candy Lucky Strikes, circa 1958.

Were those fellows sporting a ducktail haircut as well? And singing Hound Dog?

 

[Dhaller]

I have only recently begun to wear summer shirts. Prior, I just went shirtless, which meant they wouldn't serve me at McDonald's so I would use the drive-thru and they wouldn't notice.

I spent a good portion of my childhood shoeless and shirtless (having grown up in the proverbial woods), but I actually find wearing a shirt made from a cool, wicking fabric to be cooler than going shirtless.

(Obviously, as a child there were no "technical" fabrics, and certainly no one was making linen children's shirts, so it doesn't really change that.)

DH

 

[Peak and Pine]

^
Re the above quoted text, prolly should change font colors when I’m making stuff up because it may not be that obvious that I’m often lying thru my teeth.

 

[Charles Dana]

^
Re the above quoted text, prolly should change font colors when I’m making stuff up because it may not be that obvious that I’m often lying thru my teeth.

No, don’t tip us off! Part of the fun in reading any tongue-in-cheek comment is figuring out if it’s a tongue-in-cheek comment. Even more fun: seeing other people, unfamiliar with the commenter’s specific flavor of humor, take the comment seriously.

Keep ‘em guessing.

 

[Peak and Pine]

^
Well I felt disheartened that one of my favorite posters besides you, @Dhaller, might have bought into that shirtless thing which disgusted me even as I wrote it, a 77 year old guy running around bare chested, fine looking individual that I am when fully clothed, I’ve recently taken to wearing a blindfold when showering, depending solely on touch for after all come this age I pretty much now know where everything is.

 

[drpeter]

No, don’t tip us off! Part of the fun in reading any tongue-in-cheek comment is figuring out if it’s a tongue-in-cheek comment. Even more fun: seeing other people, unfamiliar with the commenter’s specific flavor of humor, take the comment seriously.

Keep ‘em guessing.

You're a wicked man, Charles Dana..

 

[Charles Dana]

You're a wicked man, Charles Dana..

True. Quite true.