Linen

[Trenchfriend]

Linen and chinos are a great look and, more importantly, comfortable. Enjoy your new attire.

Funny about your statement about short German summers. I lived in Germany as a teen and our summer school vacation seemed to last forever. The summers were hot and humid and with a few thunderstorms thrown in from time to time.

The summer in Germany is still hot. And humid in June. But the whole summer-weather is not more that longlasting, like it was still in the 90s. It's often autumnally.

 

[sergejvandervreede]

It looks like I'm the only one but I'm really not so fond of linen. I really can't make me to like the rumpled look that inevitably carries.

I have had some linen shirts and the response has always been negative (I passed all to my brother). I'm really not into the "effortless attire".

I can understand why. Linen is (IMHO) not suitable for every occasion. I would'nt wear linen to a business meeting (unless said meeting is on the Cayman Islands ) For me it sits firmly at the more casual end of the spectrum. And even then it's probably not for everybody.

 

[Mathematicus]

I can understand why. Linen is (IMHO) not suitable for every occasion. I would'nt wear linen to a business meeting (unless said meeting is on the Cayman Islands ) For me it sits firmly at the more casual end of the spectrum. And even then it's probably not for everybody.

Yes, definitely not for business wear, in my view. About casual wearing, I think it all depends on personal style and preferences. I still don't see it too look right on me.

Plus, I am not sure that every type of linen is so good for summer. I have been to many weddings during the hot Italian summers and more than often guests wear linen suits. Breathability of linen should be unbeatable, but everytime I ask people they tell me they are just boiling alive in their crazily creased linen suits. And this is strange, since I was wearing a fresco light grey suit and felt not too bad in the same heat!

 

[sergejvandervreede]

Yes, definitely not for business wear, in my view. About casual wearing, I think it all depends on personal style and preferences. I still don't see it too look right on me.

Plus, I am not sure that every type of linen is so good for summer. I have been to many weddings during the hot Italian summers and more than often guests wear linen suits. Breathability of linen should be unbeatable, but everytime I ask people they tell me they are just boiling alive in their crazily creased linen suits. And this is strange, since I was wearing a fresco light grey suit and felt not too bad in the same heat!

Well there's different weights of linen. Maybe they where wearing the heavyweight Irish stuff [emoji3]

Fresco is the open weave, right? If you hold it up to the light, you can see through it, like a sisal or buntal hat.
That is great for warm weather. If you have that in a lightweight wool it might very well be wearing cooler than linen.

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[Trenchfriend]

Just some little impressions from the blue of my new shirts.

 

[Trenchfriend]

I wanted a new airy Cargo-Bermuda, just for home sweet home, not for outdoor. So, I went to one of my favorite shopping centers in the next bigger city and got one of their storebrand linen/cotton (55%/45%) Bermudas in olive. It's very nice. Airy, but still strong, robust stuff.

 

[tropicalbob]

I wear linen shirts and vests at this time of year, but I haven't had a very good experience with linen pants. I have one pair of a linen-silk blend, but even they are a mess of wrinkles in the time it takes to walk from my front door to the car. The best fabric I've found is a very light cotton in dark colors, with a bit of room in them - an idea I got from my Caribbean friends. Summers in Miami are a bit like winters in Fairbanks: you go outside as little as possible. Also, I stay away from "no-wrinkle" pants, as whatever it is they use in them makes for very sweaty wearing.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Linen shirts are absolutely needed in Germany, actually.

 

[Haversack]

Trenchfriend schreibt: "Linen shirts are absolutely needed in Germany, actually."

It is after all part of the Landhausmode, (country house style), triumvirate: 'Leinen, Leder, Loden'.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Update:

The race between Linen- and Seersucker shirts seems to be pro to Linen.
Seersucker is great, too, but their cotton brings me definitely more to sweat than linen.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Call me Linen-hunter!

I have no idea, why these are called "french shirts", but especially the striped ones are great for my taste. The last three pictures show the first one of my four new shirts, which I bought couple of days before. All from the same model line. Made in Myanmar.

But 100% linen!!

 

[Sonero]

I purchased a few of these linen guayaberas this past Spring in Tijuana for $25 each. They come from Oaxaca although Yucatan is another popular place to purchase them.

 

[Old Mariner]

I tend to be a fan of linen. Mainly because I am warm all the time (and I hate hot weather [including 50%+ humidity] on top of that). I have been working on "fine tuning" my own wardrobe so as to be more lightweight(?) for me. Even in the winter, I don't care for extremely heavy clothes that are very "insulating" and cumbersome, as I am not outside much. I do have some cooler weather clothing, but the type of it is changing (evolving) in my wardrobe. It's taking time to find the right balance for me.

 

[MichaelRhB]

I have two linen shirts. One Trachten shirt that is a lightweight weave in a tiny green check/plaid pattern and a solid Navy blue shirt that is slightly heavier. Both are comfortable, but the blue shirt wrinkles badly in the dryer. The Trachten shirt comes out looking new every time.

 

[jonesy86]

I like this linen Guayabera by Bohio.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Now it's time! Aaah!

 

[belfastboy]

Our lockdown has been lifted, two weeks after second dose for me so today I head downtown to buy some linen to have a shirt/jacket made for what passes as our summer weather. Although this year the almanac says it will be an unusually hot and dry one...perfect linen weather.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Orvis offers many linen shirts.

Of particular interest may be its Tri-Blend Bush Long-Sleeved Shirt, which essentially is a linen Indiana Jones-type shirt.

 

[Alex Oviatt]

I find that linen suits can be cool if half lined on unlined but if fully lined--especially in polyester instead of breathable bemberg--they can be just as hot as any other suit. Very fine wool is not actually that bad.....

 

[GHT]

It looks like I'm the only one but I'm really not so fond of linen. I really can't make me to like the rumpled look that inevitably carries.

A fellow after my own heart. Truth be told, I have a love/hate relationship with linen. It came about when I had a made to measure suit that I wanted to wear to an Hawaiian themed wedding. My tailor tried his best to get me to have a linen/synthetic mix of 60/40 linen, synthetic. No, no, no. I wouldn't listen, 100% linen. It was a painful lesson, that suit always looks like I've slept in it. Much as I love the look and feel of linen, it never measures up to the sharp appearance that I love to present. Hey-ho, you live and learn.