Formal Shirts

Men's Formal Shirts for Business and Evening Wear

Welcome to Formal Shirts, the web site dedicated to helping you find the perfect formal shirt for business or evening wear, at the right price! Our formal shirt choice is hand picked from some of the best UK shirt retailers, and offers something for all budgets, and is selected only from reliable retailers in UK.

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Below are just a few of the finest formal shirts for men. Use the links on the right to find more of the best formal shirts, in a range of colours, materials and styles to suit you.

We have hand picked the very best men's formal shirts available, so you don't need to spend hours searching through all the fashion and clothing web sites - you can find the right formal shirt here, at a glance. Our choice includes formal shirts from many famous names, including classic traditional British shirt makers such as T M Lewin, Charles Tyrwhitt and Austin Reed, plus many famous, modern designer names such as Hugo Boss, Ted Baker and Paul Smith.

Types and Styles of Formal Shirts

Essentially there are two types of formal shirts for men; a dress shirt, which is also called an evening shirt, and a business shirt, simply known in UK as a formal shirt. A dress shirt sometimes has a wing collar and is designed to be worn with a bow tie and tuxedo or dinner jacket. A business shirt has a standard style collar, designed to be worn with a neck tie and usually a lounge suit or business suit. Both types of shirts can come with either a standard button cuff sleeve, or a double cuff (often called a French cuff in America), which is worn with cuff-links or silk knots.

Formal Shirt Colours

As you would expect, there is a large number of colours available for formal shirts, including some stronger, bolder colours such as dark blue, green, red, purple and even black. However, as most formal shirts are to be worn for business or a formal evening event, you may prefer one of the more trusted, standard colours for formal shirts, such as white, pale blue, grey, and pale lilac or pink for example.

Striped Shirts and Checked Shirts

There are plenty of formal shirts with stripes or check pattern, some including 2 or 3 vertical stripes in contrasting colours. These striped shirts and checked shirts are popular for business wear, although care should be taken in choosing the right tie to match.

Designer Shirts and Brands

There are many well known fashion houses and designer names offering a wonderful choice of quality, stylish formal shirts, such as Hugo Boss, Paul Smith, Crombie, Hackett and Ted Baker. All of these names have a reputation for luxury and high quality designs, and many, such as Paul Smith and Hugo Boss, have indeed made their name in men's tailoring and men's fashion.

But there are also many wonderful formal shirts produced by shirt and men's tailoring specialists rather than the super trendy, international design houses. Names such as TM Lewin, Charles Tyrwhitt and Austin Reed are synonymous with English shirts and tailoring, and have been providing men with formal shirts for years.