We ❤ Happy Shirts!

It pays to have a skinny-ass boyfriend who likes happy patterned/printed shirts as much as I do. I've always borrowed a few of his but more so lately with the brutal culling of my section of the wardrobe. I like how his slimmer-cut shirts sit on me - just a little bit over-size, comfortable but not sloppy. I also like how men's shirts, with their longer shirt-tails, work better for the way that I like wearing them - a messy-on-purpose half-tuck or a neat full-tuck. My shorter made-for-women shirts never stay put!

I wear shirts more often than I show-and-tell them on this blog. They have slowly replaced t-shirts (except stripey ones!) in my life and the boyfriend's over the last ten years. With age, we've come to appreciate the crispy-ness, the very thing that we used to hate about our school uniforms, of a good shirt. We've realised that wearing a shirt doesn't make us "stuffy" and less "cool". That we get more wear out of shirts of a good make and fabric than a t-shirt. So, I'm beginning to wonder if we'll have more room in our wardrobe and more money in our pockets if I stopped buying women's shirts* and start buying men's shirts (in his size...he can't fit in mine) that we can both wear?

* But not if the women's shirt in question is as cute as this blue-and red tiny-hearts-in-box-print Resteröds shirt! Half western/cowboy shirt (which I wear a lot of), half pyjama shirt with cute piping (I've been looking for one, to wear out, since I saw a Steven Alan number), in an A-line cut and long asymmetrical shirt-tails!