Women's button up shirts

Button-up shirts are the quiet workhorses of a vintage wardrobe, and the good ones are getting rarer: 100% silk from the 90s, crisp cotton poplin, Italian linen, and 70s prints in colours that only the decade could do. We check every button and buttonhole, the collar points, underarms and cuffs, and we press each shirt before it is photographed so you see the cut, not the crease. Listings give the label size and our UK estimate, plus pit-to-pit, shoulder and length measured flat, because shirts from the 80s were cut generous and shirts from the 90s were cut close. There is one of each. Pair them with high-waisted jeans or a midi skirt, or see blouses for the softer, more fluid shapes.