Low-Key Cult : 002
You Don’t Just Wear This Shirt, You Enter A New Tax Bracket Of Taste. It’s the shirt I would rescue from a burning building- right after my cat, possibly before my passport.
In fact, my entire wardrobe is now just trying to live up to a shirt. This shirt.
The micro-prison-stripe Miera shirt from Nili Lotan, which has become the piece I reach for when I want to appear like I’ve made an effort, but not too much effort. It’s the shirt that makes me want to throw my entire wardrobe (ok, 90% of my wardrobe) into a canal and start again.
Without fail, every time I wear it on a Live Stream, someone DMs me about it. When I’m wearing it IRL, people look at me differently. Like I’ve figured something out.
The Miera is the shirt equivalent of replying to an email with “Circling back on this!” when in fact you completely forgot it existed. But let me be clear: this is not your usual crisp, iron-up-and-button-up. This is the shirt for people like me, who live in a perpetual state of almost-wrinkle. The shirt for people who never quite got the hang of starch or garment bags or tissue-wrapping the contents of their suitcase. It has snug-shouldered tailoring with a loose-bodied shape that forgives absolutely everything, including that week you travelled quite a lot for work and successfully completed the Bag of Gummy Bears in Every Airport (the ones with ‘real fruit’ added, obvs) Challenge.
The subtle ruffly collar? A non-committal nod to formality. It doesn’t try too hard, and that’s its power. You can wear it half-tucked to a pitch meeting or a parents’ evening, or fully-unbuttoned over a t-shirt while standing next to someone famous and intimidating in the condiments aisle at WholeFoods, and it’s always saying the same thing: “Yes, Ialways look this effortlessly pulled together while buying mustard.”
There is always one Miera shirt packed in my luggage, I have briefly panicked about leaving mine in the hotel closet, I’ve catastrophized about it perishing in a laundry incident involving something red or the too-hot setting or a rogue iron set to ‘lava’.
If I ever go missing, start by asking this shirt where I’ve gone. We’re never far apart.
Shirt: The Miera Shirt by Nili Lotan
For: The starch-averse, effort-ambiguous, soft-structured dressers among us
Key Features: Micro-prison stripe, loose fit, mini-ruffle collar
Wallet Risk: High. Once you have one, you can’t imagine life without another…
get it: https://www.nililotan.com/products/miera-shirt-2?variant=41081929236598