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Need some OcUK collective help,
I am looking for a place that sells a good selection of shirts, mainly interested in solid colour ones

BUT I need a LARGE selection of different colours, from Wild Green, to Blue, to Red, to Purple ... you get the idea.

Now since I'm looking for solid coloured shirts I figure a budget of £25-30 is MORE than enough (as this is the sort of money that the brick and mortar places below charge)

I've need round all the usual places, such as M&S, Debenhams, BHS, and so forth and while they do have a decent selection of formal shirts, there is very little cool colour choice with the only interesting things being available being Purple and Pink.

Any suggestions of a good brick and mortar, or online place, to get some?
 
Lots on there, but I want some recommendations for good places that sell good quality shirts rather than taking the ebay gamble.
 
Both of those don't do any wild colours really as they tend to go for the more casual stuff that also tends to be chekered

I want the sort of colours you can get when buying the stupidly expensive designer shirts, but without buying actual designer shirts that are £100+ a pop :/

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I looked at those Rotty, they all tend to be far more conservative with the colours

I am after the sort of shirts that Black dude uses in his "designer" suit/shirt combinations, where he will have orange, purple, etc
 
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I can't remember the name :(

It is a famous black dude in London that does suits/shirts and his "signature" is using colourful shirts

EDIT: I remember now! Boateng!
http://i56.tinypic.com/21j6b6f.jpg
http://i55.tinypic.com/15d3pn4.jpg

Those are the sort of colours (perhaps a bit more conservative with respect to the pop though) I'm talking about, though I'm not going to wear them with a suit but rather just as shirts on their own.
 
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rypt said:
I can't remember the name :(

It is a famous black dude in London that does suits/shirts and his "signature" is using colourful shirts

EDIT: I remember now! Boateng!
http://i56.tinypic.com/21j6b6f.jpg
http://i55.tinypic.com/15d3pn4.jpg

Those are the sort of colours (perhaps a bit more conservative with respect to the pop though) I'm talking about, though I'm not going to wear them with a suit but rather just as shirts on their own.
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I have a black and Purple Boateng shirt

have a look at 7 Camicie they do some very bold colours and some lovely detail finishes

http://www.7camicie.co.uk/
 
Rotty said:
I have a black and Purple Boateng shirt

have a look at 7 Camicie they do some very bold colours and some lovely detail finishes

http://www.7camicie.co.uk/
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Those do look awesome, but you really are paying for the small detail there, I'm not really after the detail finishes currently but am just after plain solid coloured (but a standout colour) formal-like shirts.

Debenhams did have Ben Sherman stuff which has some nice purples, and the cheaper Thomas Nash stuff that did a nice pink and purple.
Realistically though the Thomas Nash is not as nice quality (and not even 100% cotton) compared to what you find in BHS & M&S.

It seems that the major retail stuff just doesn't do a large selection of colours, tending to stick to more conservative stuff.

ash_scotland88 said:
topman/h&m had them in their winter range, but being spring/summer. Didn't have the slight shiney effect. May be worth a look, a lot of place will start stalking pastel and light shades now.
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I checked out...
FCUK, BHS, M&S, Debenhams, Topman, Zara, Next, err and some other places today, and the most I could find were purple and pink shirts in Debenhams :(

I would figure that coloured formal-style shirts would be all year round, rather than by season.
 
Thomas Pink, Charles Tyrwhitt and TM Lewin are where I mainly get my shirts.

I would imagine the reasons that most places don't have the colours that you want is because they're not popular. You could try getting some shirts made perhaps - that way you'll get the fit and finish you want...

One thing to say though - unless you're tall, slim and dark like Oswald Boateng, you're going to have trouble pulling off his look. There's a reason people take the mick out of Jonathan Ross's dress sense (and he's toned it down lately...).
 
Well I am tall and slim, but I'm also not going for the wild shirt and suit combo ... in fact I want slightly more toned down shirts than what he uses , I still want the orange, purple, blue, red, pink, dark green stuff ... but with less of a "in your face" colour pop

I know it works just fine on me, as I have some Ben Sherman purple stuff and a Korean Wine coloured shirt that just looks awesome on me.
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Ignore the crumpled look, that is the style of the shirt
 
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rypt said:
I checked out...
FCUK, BHS, M&S, Debenhams, Topman, Zara, Next, err and some other places today, and the most I could find were purple and pink shirts in Debenhams :(

I would figure that coloured formal-style shirts would be all year round, rather than by season.
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Coloured are, but in summer when its warmer they tend to be lighter colours, and winter tends to be deeper, darker colours.
 
Hmm, perhaps :(

Though I disagree with that as I would say you want the more colourful stuff in summer when everything around you is colour
 
Hugo Boss have some nice stuff it seems, but at prices that make me cringe
I just want to avoid going "designer" (with the associated costs) for shirts I'm going to wear casually.
 
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