Bengal Stripe Cotton Poplin Button-Down Shirt
Drake’s · £225
Nice, but provisional
The same Somerset making in a bengal stripe poplin, which is the even quarter-inch stripe that reads as blue from across a room. Poplin on a button-down is a slightly awkward pairing, because the cloth wants to be crisp and the collar wants to roll, and the result is smarter than an oxford and less relaxed than the collar suggests. Lovely cloth, narrower use than the oxford beside it at the same price.
- For
- Somebody who already owns the oxford and wants the striped equivalent.
- Not for
- A first purchase, where the oxford at the same money is the more useful shirt.
What we checked
- Made in their own factory in Somerset. Drake’s
Marked provisional: the justification rests on 1 source(s); two independent ones is the bar. We publish it anyway and say so, rather than waiting for evidence that may never arrive.