I Wear This Shirt Style Every Season of Every Year, and Now It's Super Trendy

If you see me soon, I'll probably be wearing a button-down shirt. But this is hardly a groundbreaking statement because so will everyone else. Oversize button-downs are a classic, but in the past, they've been seen as more in line with a "preppy" aesthetic. Now, people are incorporating them into outfits no matter what their aesthetic is. I, for one, am here for it and have been steadily adding to my button-down collection recently.
Practically every clothing brand that exists makes some version of a button-down shirt, and fashion people have taken to wearing them untucked and oftentimes unbuttoned over a tank top or T-shirt. It's an effortless look that you can wear over and over again, whether it's with jeans, shorts, or a dress or skirt. Scroll on to see exactly how fashion girls are wearing them and to shop 20 of my favorite button-down shirts you can buy at the moment.
Madewell is a great brand to shop for oversize button-downs.
I'd spring for a short-sleeve option or two as well.
Next up, The 2021 Trends That Won't Fizzle Out by 2022

Allyson is a senior editor for Who What Wear. She joined the company in 2014 as co-founder Katherine Power's executive assistant and over the years has written hundreds of stories for Who What Wear. Prior to her career in fashion, Allyson worked in the entertainment industry at companies such as Sony Pictures Television. Allyson is now based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds a BFA in theater arts. Her path to fashion may not have been linear, but based on the number of fashion magazines she collected as a child and young adult, it was meant to be.
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