Ẩm thực – The Best Blue Dress Shirts for Men Are the Workhorses of Your Office Wardrobe

GQ’s Best Stuff has your back with nine superlative blue dress shirts for every taste and budget.

Need to look sharp and smart and totally put together? A crisp blue dress shirt is still the way to go.

There was a time, not so long ago, when we here at GQ believed in a few hard-and-fast rules about menswear: that there was only one correct way for a suit to fit, only one correct tie width you should ever consider wearing, and that you should never, ever wear a short-brimmed fedora. (OK, that last one is still true.) In 2019, though, there are virtually zero rules left. Suits are back in a big way, but nowadays they can be as shrunken and short à la Thom Browne, voluminous and lapel-less like an Issey Miyake joint, or land anywhere in between. One thing that absolutely hasn’t changed, though? Our steadfast and unwavering belief that every man alive looks handsome as all hell in a great blue dress shirt.

What “great” means for you, of course, is variable. We used to look for a specific collar size and a specific color that we very modestly called “GQ blue.” (Not a joke.) Now the trick is finding the best fit for your style: if that’s timeless and all-American like our go-to Ralph Lauren version, then awesome; if it’s retro and eccentric like the Gucci take below, that’s awesome too. You’ve got options, and no matter which you choose, you can rest assured that you’ll look smart and sophisticated and totally put together—because that’s just what the best blue dress shirts do. Some things in fashion really don’t ever change, and for that, we’re grateful.

The Best All-Around Blue Dress Shirt

Polo Ralph Lauren easy care stretch poplin shirt

If you’re anything like us, when you’re in need of something as straightforward as a blue dress shirt, your first instinct is probably to head to Ralph Lauren. Trust that instinct. The king of American menswear built his empire largely on the strength of perfectly executed basics like this: the cut is flatteringly trim; the cotton is specially woven for a beautiful hand and just a hint of stretch; the collar is a medium spread that’ll stand tall with or without a tie. Add to that a totally reasonable, sub-$100 pricetag, and there’s really zero reason to waste any more time overthinking this.

Ralph Lauren

$90

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The Best Blue Dress Shirt for Getting Noticed

Gucci oxford shirt with embroidered collar

Maybe you’ve gone all in on this wild style era, and now fear that a classic blue shirt won’t fit in with the rest of your trippy, balls-to-the-wall wardrobe. If that’s the case, Alessandro Michele’s got your back. The bombastic Gucci designer can’t help but bring a little whimsy to whatever he touches, and he does so here by way of an elongated, ’70s-style point collar embroidered with a bright red bee borrowed from the Italian house’s archives. It’s weird enough to turn some heads, but not so much to strip the shirt of its timelessness.

Gucci

$780

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The Best Blue Dress Shirt for Business Trippin’

BOSS slim-fit shirt in easy-iron cotton

When you’re out on the road for work and absolutely need to make the right impression, this is the shirt to rely on. It’s streamlined and crisp in every respect, with an icy blue hue that’ll look razor sharp paired with a trim dark suit and tie. As an added bonus, the easy-iron cotton should hold up nicely in your suitcase—the less time you spend bent over a crappy hotel room iron, the better.

Hugo Boss

$148

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The Best Extremely-Rich-Guy Blue Dress Shirt

Brioni light blue herringbone shirt

How could a simple blue dress shirt possibly be worth nearly $1,000, you ask? The answer lies largely in the fabric: this puppy is crafted entirely from Sea Island cotton, A.K.A. the luxest, rarest, softer-than-a-newborn-puppy-iest cotton fibers on the planet. The stuff is grown and hand-picked in highly limited quantities in the Caribbean, and then woven into the distinguished herringbone textile you see here. From there, it’s exactingly tailored by hand in Italy into a shirt that truly looks and feels like a million bucks. Which, if one were to take that literally, means you’re actually getting it at 99.9% discount. What a steal!

Brioni

$960

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The Best In-a-Pinch Blue Dress Shirt

Nordstrom trim fit non-iron solid dress shirt

Working with a tight budget? Land someplace only to realize you forgot to pack a dress shirt? Nordstrom is your answer. Unlike most department store button-ups, this one is neither scratchy to the touch nor embarrassingly sheer. Instead, it packs a ton of value into one seriously wallet-friendly package: nice slim fit, quality fabric, sturdy collar. As far as entry-level options go, Nordstrom’s take is as rock solid and totally viable as it gets.

Nordstrom

$70

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Four More Blue Shirts We Love

Drake’s ice blue pick & pick regular fit shirt

Drake’s has been crafting some of the finest neckties anywhere for four decades now. As it happens, they know their way around the things you wear them on, too.

Drake’s

$205

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Canali classic shirt

Everything Canali tailors comes marinated with a touch of old world Italian luxury.

Farfetch

$291

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Club Monaco stretch poplin dress shirt

A little cleaner-lined than most, for the real-deal minimalists among us.

Club Monaco

$99

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Giorgio Armani classic shirt

When it comes to elegance with ease, Armani is still tops.

Armani

$425

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By YANG-YI GOH

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