V&A
Burgundy Cream Striped Cotton Dress Shirt
1970s · 1970s · Italian
Production
ready-to-wear
Material
cotton
Culture
Italian
Movement
Hippie / Counterculture
Influences
1970s wide-collar styling
A men's dress shirt featuring vertical stripes in burgundy, cream, and rust tones on cotton fabric. The shirt displays classic tailoring with a pointed collar, full-length sleeves with button cuffs, and a front button placket. The stripes vary in width, creating a rhythmic pattern typical of 1970s menswear. The cut appears fitted through the torso with structured shoulders. The collar points are moderately spread, characteristic of the decade's shirt styling. The fabric appears to have a smooth, crisp hand typical of shirting cotton, and the construction shows machine-sewn seams and professional finishing details.
shirtregular fithip length
Connected To
Movement·Hippie / CountercultureTechnique·machine-weavingMotif·stripe-band
VISUAL ECHO10 years · cross-culture
These two shirts reveal how the 1970s democratized pattern in menswear through the simple stripe, but with telling differences in execution. The white shirt's tone-on-tone vertical stripes create texture through shadow and light—a subtle European approach that whispers rather than announces—while the burgundy shirt's bold multi-colored stripes speak in the confident voice of Italian tailoring, where pattern was never something to apologize for.
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