Tshirt with tie
Srikanth asks if it’s ok to wear a tshirt with a tie. Just a casual thing, with the tie nice and loose.
Well, this reminds me of the conversation we had earlier here about dress shirt lengths and ties - whether you can wear short sleeves with a tie and if a long sleeved shirt pushed up was an ok alternative.
It’s a general rule not to wear short sleeved shirts of any sort with a tie. It looks unbalanced. However, the exception is the long sleeved dress shirt with the tie - since pushed up it still gives the formality necessary to pull off the combo.
So, we come to the t-shirt and tie question. I’d have to say no on the basis of two factors as above:
- The length balance is off. The short sleeves versus the longer tie looks off kilter.
- The mix of casual and formal is too harsh
Now, while we can mix a blazer and a casual shirt and still be ok as far as formal/informal wear goes, the tie is still in it’s own ‘formal and only formal’ category.
What do you think? Have you seen this combination look good?
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4 opinions for Tshirt with tie
Jetru
Feb 21, 2006 at 12:41 pm
It looks good on Avril Lavigne, but she’s a girl.
This is Srikanth. Thanks.
Arieanna
Feb 21, 2006 at 12:48 pm
My pleasure. And, yeah, girls can get away with so much! ;)
Devin
Feb 21, 2006 at 12:49 pm
I’d have to strongly agree here. I can’t imagine this even working as a ‘too-cool-to-be-normal’ look. Now, a blazer and a t-shirt is obviously a different mixture of formal/casual and it has worked quite well for many…
Jesse J. Anderson
Feb 21, 2006 at 1:11 pm
Speaking of the rolling up of the sleeves, is there any real etiquette on what you can get away with?
I like to keep my long sleeves unbottoned at the cuff and I usually fold them up for short sleeves (about 3 or 4 cuff lengths worth, just about the elbow length) but I’ve also seen the casual looking one fold up, basically with the cuff folded back once and kind of fanned out.
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