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The white shirt was still a major feature off the catwalk and away from movies, too; stars such as Carolyn Basette Kennedy made the relaxed white shirt part of her uniform, while in more recent times, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, ensured it was a key element of her wardrobe, wearing it for her very first appearance with then-boyfriend Prince Harry and consistently turning to it throughout her time as a member of the British royal family. Sharon Stone made it red-carpet appropriate for the 1998 Oscars (pairing her husband’s Gap shirt with her Vera Wang skirt), a route that the likes of Julia Roberts and Emma Watson have since followed. Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana, Victoria Beckham, Rihanna, Zendaya, Amal Clooney – it would be difficult to name a stylish woman in the public eye who hasn’t relied on the white shirt for one occasion or another.“We’ll never get bored of a classic white shirt as it can be styled in so many different ways,” Heather Gramston, head of womenswear buying at Browns tells us. “It works really well with a tuxedo, a pair of blue jeans, a skirt, a pair of shorts – and you can even wear an oversized white shirt on its own for a lazy day at home.Part of its appeal and therefore its ability to live on is clearly its versatility, something which Natalie Kingham, fashion and buying director at Matches Fashion, echoes.
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During these decades, the white shirt – despite initially being a feature of menswear – on the whole tended to be very much more associated with femininity than it was later down the line. The shirt was often nipped in with a belt at the waist, never buttoned up to the top, and tucked into a skirt, styled with a silk scarf tied around the neck.It was later then that it developed more of an androgynous reputation – worn by icons such as Patti Smith (who teamed it with a skinny tie); Diane Keaton (with a waistcoat in Annie Hall); Kim Basinger (who wore it oversized in 9 And A Half Weeks); and Uma Thurman wearing it buttoned up with tailored black trousers in Pulp Fiction. It was thrown over a dress in Pretty Woman, tied at the waist in Dirty Dancing and worn with nothing else by Angelina Jolie in Mr and Mrs Smith.white shirtSHUTTERSTOCKADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOWOn the catwalks, the presence of the white shirt was particularly significant in the Nineties and Noughties, where pared-back minimalism ruled in the collections of Calvin Klein and DKNY, later becoming a key piece for Jil Sander and Phoebe Philo’s Celine – and it has continued to dominate well into the next decade.
