Dress Shirt Placket Types

Your dress shirt’s placket is something most men never think about. Perhaps you don't even know what a placket is! It’s that strip of fabric going down your men’s dress shirt, where your buttons are. Have some fun when styling it. Add a nice contrast color or pattern for your placket. Design your custom men’s dress shirts. now. Make it exciting.

Contrast Placket

The contrast placket is similar to contrast dress shirt cuffs and dress shirt collars. It’s a white placket that contrasts the base color of your custom dress shirt. Many more formal dress shirts have a contrast collar and cuff, but we decided to introduce the contrast placket as an option for your custom men’s dress shirts. While it’s not an original idea, it’s one of those styles that are always limited in quantity, so we decided to really cater to you and offer it to you just in case you wanted it.

Normal Placket

The normal placket is a strip of fabric raised off the dress shirt front with stitches down each side. Keep this option if you want to be adventurous with the other parts of your dress shirt. This is what most casual shirts and many dress shirts have as standard. How can you go wrong?

French Placket

A more modern look, the edge of the shirt front is folded over to create a creased edge and held together by the button holes. The French placket dress shirt is considered dressier than the standard placket, but nonetheless a popular choice. NOTE: You can’t add a special contrast color or pattern to a men’s dress shirt with a French placket because there’s no separation between the placket and the base of the dress shirt.

Covered Placket

Rarely seen on off-the-rack shirts, the fold is designed to cover the dress shirt’s buttons entirely, and is a very alternative option. Dressier, minimalist and much more formal, but very 007-esque.

Pick the placket you want, and the color or pattern you want it to be when you design your new men’s dress shirts online now.