Review: Peter Werth Smart Cutaway Collar Polo Shirt

Time for another review of an item from our friends over at Stand-Out.net, this time a nice bright button-down collar polo shirt from Peter Werth.

Peter Werth is a British Menswear brand that we’ve covered a few times on Good Clobber. The company was founded in North London about 35 years ago and their aim is to ‘deliver beautifully made, well cut garments that make every man feel good about himself and confident in the way he is seen by others’. Peter Werth feels like a high qualiy brand and his is reflected in the look and feel of their garments.

This is a lovely shirt, but it’s not your standard polo: It’s made from cotton, but I don’t think it’s pique, the type of weaving that you’d expect of a polo shirt, it’s slightly softer. It has a button down collar with interfacing (an extra layer of special material that makes the collar stiff). There’s also a nice bit of detail on the buttons - branded on the front with patterns on the matte back.

The lable at the neck here references the brand’s north London roots: N1 is the post code for Islington.

An how does it fit? Well! I’m a 38 chest, so tend to go with a medium. It’s not too short on the chest or the sleeves and the four buttons on the placket at the front mean you could wear it in 3 different styles: Buttoned-up preppy, breathable with the top button undone, or really casual with more than two buttons undone.

There’s an embroided logo on the right abdomen. A lot of Peter Werth garments have this. It seems like a bit of an unorthadox place to have a logo which some people may not like and I’m not sure what the logo ‘means’: It looks like a ‘75’, which may well be reference to the brand’s 35th anniversary in 2010 two years ago.

This is a very smart polo shirt. I’d say that it could even be worn as part of office attire - maybe even with a suit. A possible bad point is something common with many white cotton tops; it’s slightly see-through.

And how much is it? This shirt is currently on offer at Stand-Out.net for £29.00 which is reasonable - it is usually priced at £34.00. Find it here.

Thanks to Stand-Out.net for the item. Check out the full range of Peter Werth garments at Stand-Out.net here.

Working in digital marketing and having an interest in menswear, something like this was always going to catch my attention…

Superga UK, the company who bring us the ‘people’s shoe of Italy’ are running a month long promotion on their Facebook page to win free pairs of their excellent shoes: Superga fans are invited to use the iPhone / android photography application Instagram to take a colour-themed photo that reflect some of the most popular shoe colors.

Last week’s colour-theme was blue, this weeks (ending today!) is red and the following week will be yellow. The pictures submitted don’t need to be actually of Superga shoes - so you don’t need to own a pair to enter - just need to take a picture that is themed on that colour. Check out a few of the nice snaps below hashtagged on Instragram with ‘#superga’, head over to the Superga Facebook page to find out more. Shame it’s only open to Instagram users - I ain’t got the right sort of phone for that! :(

Thanks to Superga UK and these Instagram people for the images:
thatguyfromw2, fabrizio_styles, supersalv, mrvwonderland, sampollaro, robe4rta, fionaselga, andrewryeong, neverlosethetrust.

It really doesn’t feel like long ago that Ben Sherman announced their Spring collection (see it here) and yet we now have their Summer collection also. Lots of pastel shades, plaid and button-down collars make for a nice selection of clobber that fits with the current ‘Sherman theme. Shame it’s not too Mod this season though - might be because the Mod look doesn’t seem to work too well in hot temperatures.

Check out the full collection here.

Thanks to Ben Sherman for the images