Beyond Solids: Prints and Patterns in Dress and Woven Shirts
Promotions Now is always your reliable source for classic, solid colored dress and woven shirts with your logo, but if you’re looking for something a little out of the ordinary, we’ve got you covered there as well. Branding is our specialty, but we also like to focus on style, ensuring your promotional apparel doesn’t just make your marketing efforts look good, but they make you look good as well. That’s why our selection goes far beyond solid colors to include prints and patterns that are currently on trend. Here are a few that we have to offer.
Crosshatch
Crosshatch is basically a simple crisscross pattern. It can be made with perfectly straight lines intersecting at 90 degree angles or with broken lines that more closely resemble brush strokes. Crosshatch patterned shirts can easily be dressed up for business casual working environments and semi-formal social gatherings but also look great with jeans and any other casual attire.
Plaid
Plaid is an extremely popular pattern consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines in two or more colors in a woven cloth. It’s typically considered a casual pattern but with its growing popularity in current trends, it’s more widely accepted for any type of dress code. It’s not uncommon for men to pair plaid woven shirts with suit jackets or women to wear them with pencil skirts or dress pants.
Tonal
Tonal, tone-on-tone or color layering fabrics consist of 2 or more saturations of the same color in any number of patterns, particularly stripes. The result is very subtle and can appear similar to pinstripes. This is a pattern that is frequently used in dress or work shirts because it comes off as very clean and sleek looking.
Checks and Gingham
Checkered prints usually consist of a series squares in either two different colors or one color with either white or black. This assemblage creates a pattern exactly like that of a checker board. Gingham looks very similar to checks but it actually contains crisscrossing lines of the same color that are equally spaced out on a white background. Whenever the lines intersect, they form a square that is a darker shade of the lines themselves. Another pattern that is similar to checks and gingham is buffalo plaid. All 3 of these prints are currently trending in popular fashion and can be paired with just about anything.
Washed Chambray
Though chambray and denim have a very similar appearance, the two fabrics are woven together in two completely different manners in order to achieve separate results. Chambray is generally lighter in weight and, depending on the tightness of the weave, it can have a crisp, shiny finish or a noticeable fabric slub, resulting in a loose, gauzier appearance. This is why the formal or casual nature of a chambray shirt depends on each specific garment. Chambray is given a washed finish through a special process which causes a slight fading at the seams, adding more casual appeal.
