Question for Hamish - White Dress Shirts

[Shotdir]

Hamish,
First let me say "very nice photo gallery"

Let me preface this with "USUALLY"

French Cuffs are usually a shirt cuff that folds back on itself and is then "buttoned" with cuff links. Barrel cuffs overlap and button with a button.
french cuffs are usually larger in the sleeve since they have the tails of the cuffs pulled together.
No more than 3/4 of an inch of your cuff and preferably 1/2 should be all that shows when you shoot them.

Button down collars are not formal, many men wear them with business attire (blame Brooks Brothers!) but they are not formal wear.

Plain and/or pleated front shirts are usually what is worn with tails.

Mourning clothes are a formal cutaway jacket and striped trousers for early formal wear usually worn with a wing collar and an ascot or four in hand

Both black tie and white tie use a wing collar and a bow tie in that colour.
Black tie (and tails) is usually reserved for after 6 pm formal wear (think blue dress A).
White tie is the height of fashion for formality (Blue dress A).

Hamish, have you seen a bow tie matching the tartan worn with a PC? How does that look, too busy or hideous?

a Tux jacket was not really formal, although now it is accepted as such. White jacket tuxedos aka "dinner jackets" are also seen as "stylish" for many over here.

I actually don't think that French Cuffs would look all that good with a PC


Ed