I had a Navy Blue shirt that I loved and have had for some time. It went the way of the dodo and I thought, “I’ll just go and pick one up this weekend at Target”. To my surprise that was not the case. Target, Walmart (I bought clothes there once), Kohl’s, didn’t have a Navy Blue button down long sleeve shirt with pocket. What? Maybe they’re just out of stock right now, right? Nope, even a check online revealed one place that has them and their primary business was mail order dress shirts. When you actually get to ordering it tells you, “this item is out-of-stock.” My mother-in-law, thanks Gaye, gave me a gift card to Steinmart and I thought, well we just might be able to find one there…and…no dice. They had many nice colored shirts, but no NBBDLSSwP. Polos, polos, and more polos of navy blue, even pockets, but not button down collared shirts.
Next step? Department stores. First of all, Target normally fills my every need when it comes to clothes (excluding suits), but a department store? In fact, Ginger was able to find and bought a NBBDLSS w/o pocket at Target, but it just isn’t the same. I resigned myself to go to Dillard’s, I even hate to type it, and voila a NAVY BLUE BUTTON DOWN LONG SLEEVE SHIRT with POCKET and it was on the clearance rack, $13 too! On the clearance rack, though? What’s with that? Is even conservative dressware dying? Professionals really want to look like they’re going clubbing? By that I mean, many of the nice colored shirts they had there and elsewhere had no pocket and other funky designs on them that said, $30K millionare, not professional.
Mind you, there are dress shirts galore, white of which I have plenty and Kohl’s (Mervyn’s when it was around) will fill that need quite nicely, light blue as well, light brown khaki if you will, isn’t a problem either. It’s just with Navy Blue.
They even have this color
Now I need to replace my dark green dress shirt that is on its last legs and from the looks of it, I may not be able to find one. I suspect there are more men like me, but fashion is dominated by women’s clothing so I’m sure nobody cares.
