Author: Carmen Bucco

How to Choose the Perfect Shirt to Match Your Suit?

Of course, every suit for men can become a style statement when the dress or tuxedo shirt is chosen right. While most men wonder if that’s more important for elevating a suit’s look, only some men understand its significance and pay enough attention to selecting them. 

Thus, this blog post aims to educate you on how to choose the right dress shirt that befits your suit.

  1. Picking the right color tone

Color is the first factor that immediately conveys whether or not the dress shirt matches the jacket, blazer, or overcoat. Always choose contrasting colored shirts for suits. For example, choose a lighter hue for a dark suit and a dark hue for a light suit. When this stands as a golden rule for formal or smart formal suits, you can play around with the dress shirt color when pairing a casual or informal jacket. 

However, these contrasts become meaningless for solid suits like black suits with black blazers, trousers, and dress shirts.  

  1. Balancing the collar and necktie

Tailoring the dress shirt’s collar is as essential as customizing your suit jacket. It needn’t be loose nor tight enough to discomfort your neck. At the same time, the necktie has to rightly balance the collar. It is better to go for a basic collar style instead of sport or spread collar styles.

  1. Choosing the fabric

As fabric plays an important role in giving the best comfort for the body, choosing the right material for your dress shirt decides your comfort levels through the occasion or the event. 

Choose a lightweight, cotton-like, or similar natural-fiber-made shirt for summer. On the other hand, go for thick, heavy-weight, and wool-made shirts for winter. 

  1. Choosing the fit

Standard-sized dress shirts are easy to buy but do not give the best fit that adapts to your torso or the suit. Pathetically, most ready-to-wear dress shirts are either too small or too long which creates tucking problems. Hence, it is the best choice to tailor a made-to-measure dress shirt that has the perfect structure and fit. 

Moreover, tailored suits must pair with tailored dress shirts. You cannot tailor one and choose another to be standard-sized. Reach out to the state’s leading bespoke and custom-suit designers—Bucco Couture!

  1. Measuring the right length 

The length of the shirt and its sleeves are significant to pairing it with the suit blazers. Irrespective of formal or casual suits, all dress shirts need to be tucked into the trousers or the pants. Thus, measure the right length so that it rightly gets tucked. Also, ensuring the right sleeve length enhances the look of the suit and stops at your wrist. 

  1. Ensuring symmetrical plackets

Plackets and button placement are crucial for aesthetics when the suit is unfastened or unbuttoned. The button placement on the placket can be checked along with whether or not the plackets are narrow, straight, or symmetrical. When any of this goes wrong, the overall look of the suit gets a big hit and becomes a black mark in the sartorial excellence of your suit designer.

“A boy is holding a girl so very tight in his arms tonight.” —Edward VIII

#WeddingsbyBucco

Yes, the time is now to hold tight to the love of your life! Embrace this life event in a cozy, layered gray and brown woolen suit. It is a three-piece gray glen-checkered suit with brown plaids. The trousers are tapered and have a zip closure. The buttoned-down shirt is white with mild brown stripes. The necktie and the pair of shoes are solid brown to balance the checks and the stripes.

A vibrant winter casual suit style

#FreestyleFridays

Why not go with a vibrant cobalt blue extra-long winter jacket to stand out in the snow? Yes, dress up in a similar highly contrasting winter jacket and a matching pair of trousers with a scarf or cardigan as your inner layering. This makes you look stylish, bold, and more attractive than neutral or lighter shades. Wearing a hooded jacket adds warmth covering your ears and making you look more stylish.

Benson Boone’s red carpet look at the Grammy Awards this year!

#ToplinerThursdays

Indeed, it was a bold choice instead of the traditional dapper suit looks on the red carpet. Every element including the charcoal gray color choice, the wide lapels, the loose fit, and the golden jewelry reminds us of the golden retro style sartorial excellence. The most notable part was his unbuttoned shirt up to his navel. The finger rings rightly balanced the chain and looked adequate. Did you notice his shoe style? Drop in the comments!

A simple gray and blue formal suit.

#WearItWednesdays

The model wears a simple formal suit in gray and mild blue plaids. The ensemble consists of three pieces—the blazer, trousers, and the waistcoat. The blazers are mildly padded, single-breasted, and feature notch lapels, and patch-type front pockets. The suit trousers are non-pleated and tailored in regular fit. The waistcoat is collarless and is single-breasted. 

The dress shirt is ‘Olympic’ blue and the necktie are contrasting in Royal with tiny polka dots in black.

Winter shoes for men

#TeachingsTuesdays

In general, snow shoes or winter boots top the list. These are snow-proof and moisture-proof, providing ideal insulation and warmth for the foot. However, men nowadays prefer high-leather sneakers and Chelsea boots. During the transition weeks, they also prefer platform shoes and loafers. After all, it depends on the wearer and his style preferences. 

What shoes do you like to wear in winter?

Is this the classic navy tux that you yearned for?

#ManifestMonday

A simple yet classic solid navy two-piece suit perfect for the season! This woolen-made makes it cozy and comfortable. The style is minimal and chic. The blazers feature contrasting lapels in black and regular flap pockets. The inner layer is the tuxedo shirt in white. The trousers are tapered and the bow tie is in black to balance the black lapels.

“When I look into your eyes, I know I have found the mirror of my soul.” —Joey W. Hill.

#WeddingsbyBucco

As your soulmate walks down the aisle as an angel, shouldn’t you be in a bespoke suit? Of course, you have to dress up in the most handsome and dapper ensemble possible. Wait no further! Just take a look at this striking gray winter suit with camel brown plaids in three pieces. What a distinctive color combination with custom measurements perfectly befitting the groom! Choose this for your winter wedding and grab everyone’s attention now!!

A simple business casual for men!

#FreestyleFridays

Absolutely, this is a simple business casual suit style for men working on Fridays or weekends. Take out a printed shirt in neutral or formal colors and pair it with the matching or complementing trousers of your choice. The next comes the layering—an overcoat and an insulating later. The overcoat can be solid non-padded and must balance the shirt and trousers shades. The insulating layer could be a cardigan or a shawl.

John Legend at the Grammy Awards this year!

#ToplinerThursdays

Well, can you find any other look that’s richer and dapper than his? Definitely, no. His monochromatic jacquard textured suit is 200% a great choice for the red carpet. Especially, the choice of color for this suit is amazing—the luxury leather brown and black! What else to praise about—is it his silky brown solid shirt, shawl-collared tux, or the ascot-like neckties? 

Undoubtedly, it has nothing to do with individual sartorial selections but extraordinary color and style coordination, balance, and matching accessories.

A glen-checkered brown suit for men in leadership

#WearItWednesdays

Check out this unique three-piece brown pure woolen suit with glen orange checks—truly a formal masterpiece! The blazers are single-breasted with classic flap pockets, peak lapels, and slanted pocket squares. The suit trousers are slightly pleated and have a zip closure. The waistcoat is collarless and double-breasted. The shirt is solid in off-white or light blue. The neckties are plain in orange matching the ‘glen’ checks.  

Overall, the fit is chic and the look is professional!

Winter accessories for men

#TeachingsTuesdays

Men’s clothing in winter is way too layered with a handful of accessories, like scarves, gloves, boots, faux fur jackets, etc. However, you cannot wear all of them in one go. It depends on the theme of the event, the formality of the occasion, the guests’ attire, and ultimately, your comfort and warmth requirements. 

For example, wearing many clothing layers eliminates the need for sweaters, and wearing hooded jackets helps avoid scarves.