Why are dress shirts striped vertically and polo shirts horizontally?

[LS20]

ponder

 

[shortspanishguy]

The fashion Gods demand it.

 

[XZeroII]

vertial makes you look taller. horizontal makes you look fat.

think about it.

 

[mugs]

Maybe because dress shirts would look funny with stripes running across but a line running down the middle where the buttons are.

 

[JS80]

I invented the piano key neck tie! I invented it!

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Aesthetically, horizontal stripes just don't work well on longsleeve shirts.

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
Aesthetically, horizontal stripes just don't work well on longsleeve shirts.

long sleeve polo shirts (rugby shirts) are horizontally striped

 

[jtvang125]

Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
Aesthetically, horizontal stripes just don't work well on longsleeve shirts.

Well after I thought about it, I've never remember seeing a long or short sleeve shirt with horizontal stripes. Not even the casual ones.

 

[DAWeinG]

They probably did exist at one point in time or another but it was soon found out that they didn't sell very well.

 

[sdifox]

dress shirt with horizontal stripe makes you look fatter. Polo shirt are not cut the same way so it doesn't have as adverse an effect as dress shirt.