There is a version of the tucked shirt that looks considered and a version that looks like an afterthought, and most men are living in the second one without realizing it. The problem is rarely the tuck itself. It is the shirt. A shirt designed to be worn out has too much fabric in the body, the tail is too short to stay put, and by mid morning the whole thing is coming loose and bunching at the waist. A shirt built with a tucked silhouette in mind is a different object entirely. Shorter tail, cleaner side seams, fabric with enough body to sit flat without pulling. We have been specifically looking for shirts where the detail work, the placket, the collar roll, the cuff construction, actually holds up when the shirt is worn in rather than just laid flat on a photographer’s table. These are shirts that look better on a person than they do in a photo.