A grey and orange windowpane check dress shirt in a soft cotton twill from Sweden. The base is a fine white and pale grey glen check with a thin rust orange overcheck that lifts the whole shirt without shouting. Cut in the Regular fit with a spread collar and a barrel cuff, ready to sit under a navy or brown jacket, or open at the neck with denim on the weekend.
Stenstroms opened as a tailor shop in Helsingborg, Sweden in 1899 and has stayed in the same town through five generations of family ownership. Sea captains from the Helsingborg harbour carried the shirts on their voyages, which is how a small Swedish house became a global name. It is the oldest family-owned shirtmaker in Scandinavia, and it still cuts twofold cotton on the same standards that put it on those decks a hundred years ago.
The grey and orange pattern is a quiet earth-tone dress shirt that pairs with brown wool, camel, olive, cream, and mid-blue denim. It is a shirt that carries a jacket well but does not need one. Buy it when your rotation is heavy on solid blues and whites and you want one patterned shirt that plays with the browns and greens in your closet.