The rise of the blue shirt is probably the biggest fashion shift of 2016 so far
Blue is my favourite colour. The colour of cloudless skies, Saturday morning jeans and Cillian Murphy’s eyes; what’s not to love? It’s probably your favourite colour, too. I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that blue is the most commonly cited favourite colour.
It is precisely because blue was already all around us that the trend for blue shirts is quite easy to miss. Its rise, overtaking the previously ubiquitous white shirt as the subtle fashion statement of the day, is probably the biggest fashion shift of 2016 so far. But because blue shirts were perfectly commonplace long before they became a trend, they have risen uncharted. Unlike, say, the embroidered bomber jacket, which is unmissable as a 0-60, all‑cylinders-firing arrival in the fashion marketplace, the blue shirt has moved steadily up the outside lane to become a quiet champion.
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