You must know the frustration– you’ve found a gorgeous, crisp, clean, perfect white oxford shirt that is teeming with versatility and promise. You’re already having fantasies of pairing it with pops of color, excited it will work with any pair of pants you own… you know it won’t be long before you’ll be putting off easy images of breezing though the Hamptons, or the Bay, or the lake house. You button up that last button in the dressing room only to find that you’ve just given the world a one way ticket to Bra-ville. You’re crushed. You buy the shirt, along with a new white tank top and a box of safety pins because that is the reality of the search for the perfect white shirt, right?
WRONG. Let me introduce to you the concept of dual button technology from Rochelle Behrens’ “The Shirt”. This shirt is an ASOO (As Seen on Oprah) for me in her recent list of favorite things and when I saw it I FLIPPED OUT. Not to be too graphic, but my life has been filled with missed fashion moments due to two large assets of mine, perched high on my chest for the same reason that NO one knows how to cut a modern oxford shirt for women with hefty chests! Heck, sometimes they don’t even have to be hefty to cause the gape in fabric we all dread. Behrens developed a system of using hidden buttons between the visable buttons on a basic shirt. Are you having that “Duh, why didn’t I think of that?” moment, cause I sure did. She’s got 4 versions of “The Shirt”: “the classic”, a classic oxford with modern detailing; “the skinny”, a slimmer fit version of the Classic; the “Tie in a Bow” shirt that has a large pussybow at the collar; and “The Ruffle” shirt, a version of the classic oxford with a large ruffle up the button placket.
The shirts are not cheap as they start at $88 dollars, but I gotta admit… I’ve spent loads of money making cheaper versions work for years now… would this shirt be a better investment? My feelers tell me “Yes”.
XO,
K
