Be Kind Or Be Quiet Shirt

Be Kind Or Be Quiet Shirt loved nothing more than to lounge foppishly in a silk paisley smoking jacket and cravat. That Wilde and his demi-monde friends loved paisley – the painterly textile pattern that resembles a teardrop or seed-shaped vegetable – is no surprise. More surprising is how paisley has endured, and how the apparently immortal print has been enjoying yet another peak of fashionability – the catwalks of London, New York, Milan and Paris have all seen a flutter or flash of it in recent seasons.

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Paisley’s journey from Persia to the Beatles, via the Scottish textiles town bidding to become UK City of Culture 2021. Lindsay Baker reports. Be Kind Or Be Quiet Shirt should either be a work of art or wear a work of art,” said the famously flamboyant Oscar Wilde, “Paisley has been a popular motif in fashion for centuries,” Jeremy Langmead, brand-and-content director of luxury menswear e-tailer Mr Porter , tells BBC Culture.

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“And especially in the West following the hippie-inspired styles of the 1960s and 1970s, which have been having a resurgence of late with brands such as Saint Laurent, Burberry and Gucci adopting paisley. Etro, the Italian brand, has also long-used the design in its menswear, especially in suit and jacket linings.” In womenswear, too, designers from Dolce & Gabbana and JW Anderson to Raf Simons at Jil Sander have incorporated paisley in Be Kind Or Be Quiet Shirt.