The stripe tank top is one of those pieces that looks effortless on the right guy and slightly lost on everyone else, and the difference almost always comes down to fit and stripe weight. Too wide a stripe and it reads novelty. Too boxy a cut and it looks like something found at the back of a drawer. We’ve been looking specifically at options that sit properly across the shoulders, have enough body to them that they don’t go translucent the moment the sun hits, and carry a stripe that reads considered rather than accidental. These work over swim shorts at the beach, under an open linen shirt for an evening that goes later than expected, and on their own when the temperature makes layering a non starter. The Breton influence is real in a lot of these but it never feels costume. Some things are classics because they keep being right. These are the ones worth actually buying.