Buy a Yellow Linen Shirt for Men — Lemon Yellow, Three Ways
Buy a Yellow Linen Shirt for Men — Lemon Yellow, Three Ways
A colour that belongs to warm places, offered in three different shirts, each for a different kind of day.
Yellow is a colour that depends on its cloth. In linen it loses the hardness it can have in cotton: the slight irregularity of the flax yarn breaks up the colour, so a yellow linen shirt for men reads as warm and soft rather than bright. Pieter Petros offers it as Lemon Yellow, in three different shirts.
The three are the Cuba Linen Shirt, the Bliss Linen Shirt and the Laos Short Sleeve Linen Shirt. All three are in the PP linen shirts collection, handmade in the Dubai atelier with natural buttons, and all three sit in the same family of pale, buttery yellow. The choice between them is a choice of cut and occasion.
“A colour is a feeling first. Yellow is the feeling of a morning by the sea.”
— Pieter Petros, founderThe Cuba Linen Shirt in Lemon Yellow is the relaxed one, the shirt for a beach lunch or a late breakfast on a terrace. It suits resort days, worn open over PP natural swim shorts in Sapphire Blue or with the PP Casual Linen Trousers in Vanille. There is more on the cut in the Cuba shirt guide.
The Bliss Linen Shirt in Lemon Yellow is the long-sleeved one. With sleeves to the wrist, it carries yellow into the evening and into places where a short sleeve would feel too casual: a dinner on a Mediterranean harbour, a garden lunch, an afternoon wedding in warm weather. Worn with the PP Trousers 100% Linen in White, it is one of the most composed summer outfits in the collection. The Bliss guide covers its fit.
The Laos Short Sleeve Linen Shirt in Lemon Yellow sits between the two. Short-sleeved but cleanly cut, it works in town and at the beach club equally well, and it pairs naturally with the PP Casual Linen Trousers in Sapphire Blue or Black for a stronger contrast. The Laos Short Sleeve guide sets out the shape.
Yellow combines more easily than its reputation suggests. With white, it is fresh and Mediterranean; with navy or dark blue, it is classic and nautical; with oatmeal and vanille, it becomes quieter and more tonal. It flatters skin that has seen a little sun, and it photographs well in strong light. The men’s colour guide places it in the full palette.
Those who like a single colour across the outfit will find Lemon Yellow elsewhere in the collection too: the PP Cardholder in Lemon Yellow and the PP Hat in Yellow repeat it in small doses. For women, the HER Cuba Linen Shirt in Lemon Yellow and the Amelia linen dress shirt in Lemon follow the same tone, in the women’s collection.
All three shirts are available in sizes from S or M up to 4XL, and the full range of colourways, including the pinks, the blues and the quieter neutrals, is in the men’s linen collection.
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