The Best White Dress Shirts, for Men Looking Beyond the Basics

The plain white shirt is a wardrobe staple, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be plain, as in boring. Just because it is the most basic of all shirts—the one must-have dress shirt of Western culture and global business—doesn’t mean that it must be basic in the derogatory sense.

This can be a hard lesson to learn. Some men find it difficult to break the habit of reordering, say, the same tissue-like Van Heusen item that their mothers used to cop at the mall. Maybe you’re stuck in the Brooks Brothers rut. Others are perhaps unfamiliar with options that might provide superior fits for their particular frames, shapes, suit collections, social contexts, and sensibilities.