Gentlemen, a few things to keep in mind about your dress shirts

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May 26, 2017 9:26 PM

Yes, you can mess up wearing a dress shirt. We've all seen it.

We've seen some bad dress shirts. Don't pretend you haven't as well.

You've seen the guy at the office with the untucked billowy shirt.

You have the friend who still thinks it's okay to wear a dated black, striped dress shirt out to the bar. He is unaware that he looks like a member of Smash Mouth.

Most bad dress shirts fall under the categories of, too big; too wrinkled; wrong color; wrong fit. A bad dress shirt can make you look sloppier, fatter and cheesier than you ever want to look.

So we at Business Insider asked our friend Jessica Cadmus, stylist and founder of site The Wardrobe Whisperer, for her thoughts on dress shirts.

Surprise, surprise, there are some simple rules — a few things to keep in mind as you're shopping or dressing — that will make picking something out a lot easier and make you look a lot better.

Understand when its time to (un)tuck

Remember this?

Theres a way to mix patterns without looking crazy

Here are the rules for that:

1 - Mix a large scale pattern with a small scale pattern

This is for you, billowy shirt in the office guy. Your shirt is too big, bro.

When the neck fits properly, you should be able to get no more than one finger between cloth and neck.
The shoulder seams should line up with the end of your shoulders.
The cuffs, when undone, should land approximately halfway down your hand.
And the body should not have excess volume in the chest/torso area, nor excess length. Many shirts now have a small amount of stretch in them which assists with a closer fit.

Oh yes, please don't.

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