How to Wear a Flannel Shirt - Style Tips for Flannels (Beyond Plaid)

About this video

The Gazette team provides a comprehensive guide to incorporating flannel shirts into classic menswear style. They explain what qualifies a shirt as flannel, offer criteria for selecting versatile flannel shirts for a traditional aesthetic, and demonstrate multiple outfit combinations showing how to style flannels appropriately within the smart casual dress code.

Key takeaways

• The Gazette team defines flannel by its fabric construction (carded wool, cotton, or synthetics) rather than pattern, and recommends choosing flannel shirts made from natural fibers in traditional dress shirt lengths that can be tucked in
• The Gazette team advises selecting medium to small-scale check patterns or solid colors with analogous or muted hues to avoid high-contrast combinations, while avoiding casual details like flapped pockets and contrast stitching
• The Gazette team suggests dressing flannels up through layering with casual sports jackets or knitwear and pairing with smart casual bottoms like corduroys, chinos, or denim, rather than treating them as formal dress shirts or pairing them with business suits

Episode details: published November 25, 2019 · 146K views · 11:55 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. The style guidance summarized here is the Gentleman’s Gazette team’s own teaching and opinion, presented for education; product recommendations are theirs, not ours. Summaries are written by Self Growth Videos from each video itself.

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