{"id":733,"date":"2012-05-04T14:32:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T13:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mohoyt.com\/blog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2012-05-04T14:32:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T13:32:29","slug":"pink-over-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/2012\/pink-over-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink over Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First things first, I want to establish the aim of this post. I want to get a new shirt, a button-up, something vaguely smart &#8211; and in particular an oxford. I&#8217;m not picky, I just know what I want, and it&#8217;s killing me that I&#8217;m having so much trouble finding it. <\/p>\n<p>So the criteria that I&#8217;m going for:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An Oxford shirt &#8211; i.e. the slightly thicker cottony material. Heavier than most <em>traditional<\/em> dress shirts. But excellently classic and softens with age.<\/li>\n<li>100% cotton. I don&#8217;t care about this non-iron rubbish. Well made shirts (which happen to be 100% cotton) are wonderfully soft, and need no ironing (or very little ironing). I have a couple Thomas Pink shirts &#8211; they have a fantastic herringbone weave, and they do not need ironing, ever, unless I&#8217;ve tried to crease them big time. <\/li>\n<li>Slim fit &#8211; or not something horrendously baggy. I&#8217;m not huge, I&#8217;ve not got a 50&#8243; chest, so then why are a lot of standard shirts designed with the over-average man in mind. They are just baggy. Not even cool. I bought a 15.5&#8243; collared Ralph Lauren Yarmouth oxford a month or two back. The neck fits fine. That&#8217;s about it. It&#8217;s just like a small tent. I wish it would fit better. I know you can get slim fit or custom fit shirts, but I was just so blissfully unaware of how big they could be. <\/li>\n<li>Blue. I would like a blue shirt. Light blue. The classic oxford blue shirt colour. Not striped. Not pink. Blue. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So anyway the search so far has found little. Back last October when I went to Boston to row Head of the Charles with Pembroke, I hit up the Brooks Brothers HotC stand (for they are a sponsor of the event) and camera across some fantastic oxfords at half price ($40!). Suffice to say I only bought one &#8211; in light blue and white stripes. It&#8217;s a totally awesome shirt. Size small (yes, none of this collar size business (but that&#8217;s probably because it&#8217;s a more casual shirt)), slim fit, wonderfully soft material, button down collar (and with a button at the back!), the little golden fleece logo in burgundy, and the buttons are perfect, not too thick and cheap looking. The only gripe I have with it is the white collar. That said however, I have grown to like it. Ultimately, what I want is exactly the same shirt in blue. Preferably with a blue collar. I can get this I guess (pretty sure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooksbrothers.com\/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=1&#038;Section_Id=1331&#038;Product_Id=1625168&#038;Parent_Id=1031&#038;default_color=BLUE&#038;sort_by=&#038;sectioncolor=&#038;sectionsize=\" title=\"Brooks Brothers\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> is the one I want), but it&#8217;s much harder to get Brooks in the UK, and it&#8217;s not the cheapest shirt. <\/p>\n<p>So anyway the search continues. I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ralphlauren.com\/product\/index.jsp?productId=11051550&#038;fbn=Division%7CMen&#038;fbc=1&#038;f=PAD%2FDivision%2FMen&#038;f=Taxonomy%2FPOLO%2F1760781&#038;kw=custom+oxford&#038;parentPage=search\" title=\"Ralph Lauren\" target=\"_blank\">found<\/a> some Ralph Lauren shirts that I rather liked. Very similar to the Brooks Brothers one, but obviously a different brand (and hopefully not too much of a different fit). So far they seem to be about the same price &#8211; making it even harder to differentiate. Oh and also, none of the shirts I can find in a shop to look at\/try on. Are oxfords far too much of an American thing? Even here in Cambridge?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, so I eventually found one of the Ralph Lauren ones on eBay, actually I found one in that perfect blue, one in pink, both new, both from the same seller and both ending with 5 minutes of one another. I would have happily bought both except that the blue one went for almost twice the price than the pink one. Twice the price. \u00a348 instead of \u00a326! How is that even possible. Anyway I showed my disgust by only winning the pink one. Suffice to say I hope it will be awesome, and will be as wonderfully soft, versatile, and perfect as I imagine it to be, though pink. I don&#8217;t need any more pink shirts though. I guess I&#8217;ll just have to wait and see how it goes when it arrives. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First things first, I want to establish the aim of this post. I want to get a new shirt, a button-up, something vaguely smart &#8211; and in particular an oxford. I&#8217;m not picky, I just know what I want, and it&#8217;s killing me that I&#8217;m having so much trouble finding it. So the criteria that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/2012\/pink-over-blue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pink over Blue&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clothing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}