Brooks Brothers reinvented a classic, and it seems to be advantageous off.
The clandestine architect and banker of East Coast Americana aloof reintroduced its Polo Button-Down Oxford, an figure of menswear if there anytime were one.
First alien in 1896, the shirt basically invented the appearance we now apperceive as the Oxford Cloth Button-Down: a versatile, adventurous shirt that can be dressed up or down.
Though it never absolutely went away, now it's absolutely back. Like the brand's aboriginal Oxford shirt, this new adaptation appearance ancillary gussets to strengthen the seams, a best appendage to ensure it stays tucked, mother-of-pearl buttons, and, best important, the angelic beaker of the OCBD: a collar that enables a glorious, absolute roll.
The cycle had been missing from the shirt back it was redesigned in 1989 with a lined collar. The collar's lining has now been befuddled out (along with the shirt's breast pocket), which allows for that accommodating cycle that admirers of the aboriginal shirt admired so much.
"This is the array of detail in which God is said to exist," Troy Patterson wrote breathlessly in The New York Times. "Philosophers of the Ivy League Look allegorize decidedly affecting collar rolls to the silhouettes of angels' wings."
The new shirt seems to be a hit with fans. The aggregation is now affairs 15 to 20% added of them compared with the antecedent version, Brooks Brothers carnality admiral Guy Voglino told The Times.
It additionally appearance a new price: $140, a about $50 access over the antecedent version, which amount $92. It is fabricated out of Supima affection in Brooks Brothers' branch in Garland, North Carolina.
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Note: A antecedent adaptation of this adventure declared that Garland is in South Carolina. It is absolutely in North Carolina.
