Dress Shirt Base

The dress shirt base is pretty much the dress shirt minus the collar, placket, cuffs, and pockets. The base makes up the foundation of the men’s dress shirt without the extra trimmings.

Picking the right color for your dress shirt’s base delegates how you will choose to style the rest of your dress shirt, from the type of dress shirt collar you would like, to whether or not you will have a single barrel cuff or a men’s French cuff dress shirt, what color buttons you would have and if you wanted a contrast placket.

When you design your own custom dress shirts, it is always smart to start with the base since it is the foundation of your personal dress shirt, and it helps you in deciding how you would like to style the trimmings of your quality dress shirt.

If you are going to go really wild with your shirt, you should pick a neutral base fabric (simple stripes or solids) and then go crazy on the trimmings (gingham collar lining, striped cuffs, etc.), or you can pick a crazy fabric for the base (like windowpane patterns) and go neutral on the trimmings (white cuffs and white collar, or a simple solid fabric for your placket, and cuff and collar lining.