MINQUIERS MODERN
Authentic Breton Stripe Shirt | Soft Cotton | Men Fit
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Light and versatile, the Breton striped shirt or marinière MINQUIERS MODERNE embodies a French state of mind.
Its masculine straight fit around the waist and down the hips with full-length sleeves make it suitable for both men and women looking for a boyfriend fit. Please refer to the sizing guide to identify your best fit.
Fashion tip: when wearing their beloved MINQUIERS MODERNE, many women like to roll up their sleeves as they are longer than average. Perfect to bring in some French girl effortless style!
Like all Saint James fabrics, our hospitality industry-endorsed light cotton is engineered to stand the test of time and countless cold washes.
For a more substantial, textured, authentic weight and similar outstanding quality, choose MERIDAME (women fit) or MERIDIEN MODERNE (men fit).
Measurements for size Medium : total length is 27.25' / 69cm, half bust girth: 19' / 48cm, sleeve length: 26' / 66cm.
Straight shape.
Made in Saint-James, Normandy, France.
A military ruling in 1858 introduced the striped tee to the official wardrobe of quartermasters and sailors in the French Navy with its particular characteristics: 21 white stripes measuring 20mm and 20 or 21 blue stripes measuring 10mm. The 20th century brought this nautical motif into the mainstream. Sailors in the Merchant Navy and fishermen and the boating community brought it on board, and it wasn’t long before it became a fashion must-have picked up by creatives and intellectuals (think Coco Chanel, Pablo Picasso). Since then, celebrities and fashion designers have turned it into a symbol of vintage French fashion – universal and timeless.
Material
100% lightweight cotton jersey.
Care Instructions
Machine wash. Do not tumble dry.
Size Chart
| Total Length | 1/2 Bust Girth | Sleeve Length | |
| XS | 26" | 16.5" | 25" |
| S | 26.5" | 17.5" | 25" |
| M | 27" | 19" | 26" |
| L | 28" | 20.5" | 27" |
| XL | 28.5" | 22" | 27.5" |
| XXL | 29.5" | 23.5" | 28.5" |
| XXXL | 30.5" | 25" | 29" |
| 4XL | 31" | 27" | 30" |
Made In France
Saint James is the Normandy-based purveyor of the original Breton Striped Shirt. This item is produced in its employee-owned atelier in France, where only the finest ingredients are sourced for pieces that last decades and using panels of fabric for minimal waste. Learn more about our heritage and production methods in the "Since 1889" section.
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United StatesA Poem in a Shirt
A poem need not be overly complicated to express complex sentiments inherent to the human condition. Similarly, this shirt sticks to the poetic essentials, not verbose or overly-patterned but just right. It’s the sort of shirt that can make a humble chap feel like that pinnacle of manliness, Idris Elba. The sort of shirt that captures hundreds of years of shirtmaking craft and human experience in blue and white fibres. The sort of shirt that, when you wear it, makes you feel like you could scale not just puny mounts like Everest but the greatest mountain of them all: doubt. The sort of shirt that softens hardened hearts, that makes the impossible possible, that evokes the peerless beauty of Tom Selleck running around in a Hawaiian endless summer. Joseph Campbell was missing one thing about heroicness; a hero may wear a thousand different faces, but all it takes is one shirt to make an Average Joe into a hero. And this is that shirt. In short, this shirt is everything that my review is not: concise, beautiful, and a work of empowering art.
United StatesLove my shirt!
Perfect weight and drape. I would love Saint James to make the same shirt in charcoal grey and white stripes! More versatile colors
United StatesBeautiful shirt!
This is an absolutely beautiful shirt and very well made. This has already become a treasured part of my wardrobe and I can tell that this will continue to get better with age and wear. I get complimented whenever I wear this shirt and will be buying more in different colors. The wide choice of colors was the most difficult part of choosing a shirt - quite a wide-array of choices!.
