National White Shirt Day - February 11th

My father had a large collection of white shirts that he wore for business, all collared, dress white shirts. Back in the day, men didn’t wear colored shirts for professional attire…it simply wasn’t proper. Of course in my Father’s Day, men wore hats when going out, too, proper ones not ball caps…*sighs*
 
I've never cared for white shirts. I only wore one to funerals or formal occasions. Work tended to be a shirt and tie job, but as long as it was fairly plain, nobody worried much about the colour. We used to have informal competitions to see who could wear the worst shirt & tie combination. I was pretty good at that.

When we worked in Amsterdam, one of my American colleagues used to wear white shirts, but found that having them laundered was too expensive. For a while, he would go to a large street market and buy 3 cheap white shirts which would do him for a week and then dump them.
He eventually located a laundromat and kept the shirts until he had a few dozen and then did a bulk wash.
 
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Oh, my. I remember the days of ironing five white shirts every week because while Whatsisname, The Father of My Children, was in school he also worked a full-time job. Starch. Ugh. As soon as he graduated and got the first "real" job in his field, those darned shirts were sent to the laundry. Yup. Light starch, please, and on hangers not folded.
 
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