Ivory Floral Tooled Embroidery Long Sleeve Shirt

Floral tooled embroidery runs across the front, the back and the cuff of this ivory long sleeve shirt, and the placement is the whole argument for it.

Ivory is a warmer ground than white, and it does something specific for tooled work: the pattern shows clearly without the hard edge a bright white background gives it. Carrying the embroidery onto the cuff as well as the yokes is the detail that separates a properly finished western shirt from one that stops at the shoulders — the cuffs are the part of a shirt that stays visible no matter what goes over the top. Machine wash cold and hang dry.

This is a shirt for the occasions when western dress is the point: a dance, a wedding, an evening where everyone else has made an effort too. Worn under a dark vest the ivory throws forward and the tooling stays legible at the wrists. On its own it is quieter, and it still reads dressed up.