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Jul 24, 2023

Best Short Sleeve Shirts for Men 2023: 21 Game

By Reed Nelson When the best short sleeve shirts for men are running amok, no

By Reed Nelson

When the best short sleeve shirts for men are running amok, no one needs to sweat their way through summer for the sake of style. This isn't a brave statement to make, but considering the number of inexplicably sleeved arms swinging around on any given sweltering day, it seems worth mentioning. Besides, we’re riding a pretty strong short sleeve wave at the moment—it’d be a shame to waste it. And it ain't not just camp shirts that are thriving, either. Featherweight seersucker is back in the chat, bouncy-ass linens are everywhere, embroidery hasn't had this much fun in decades and if you want see-through, you got see-through, my dude. And if you want to let those arms breathe, mess with some button configurations, be (at least a little) more comfortable this season, and look great while doing it, we grabbed our 21 favorite short-sleeve shirts for you to get into right now.

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Don't overthink it: wear it with the same ease as its long-sleeved striped brethren.

You can make this one as sexy as you want to—and we suggest turning that dial up to 11.

Deep inside its early-00s hot concrete skatepark bag, also perfectly capable of Normal Shirt work.

A linen from a legendary mill, a beefed-up stripe pattern that already looks like it spent the summer in the sun and a price south of $60. Sheesh.

Sweater? Polo? Regular shirt? When it plays with everything you already own, who cares. (Note: We do. Deeply. Linen doesn't usually stretch though, so let's go with regular shirt.)

A shirt that looks just as good worn open over a white tank or all on its own.

Lightweight, packed with some cheeky texture and cut loose to keep that torso breezy even on the hottest days.

By Gerald Ortiz

By The Editors of GQ

By Gerald Ortiz

Camp-collar Alohas are still the category powerhouse, but this unhinged Nicholas Daley joint hasn't heard of them and doesn't care.

A cheat code for compliments and the unequivocal star of any outfit it features in. In other words, a real headliner.

Keep the pockets of your other teched-out jackets, lose the parts that make you sweat.

By Gerald Ortiz

By The Editors of GQ

By Gerald Ortiz

Standing out can be as simple as moving some pockets around. (Can be.)

Sometimes literally all you need is a good blown-out floral print to turn your go-to outfit into your summer outfit.

If a sumptious-ass, mustard-yellow, wood-paneled boat was a dumb good seersucker shirt, it would be this seersucker shirt.

By Gerald Ortiz

By The Editors of GQ

By Gerald Ortiz

This one might not qualify because there aren't any buttons, but the rest of it is so good that excluding it would feel wrong and also it's woven so it's also technically not a polo.

On some Rat Pack Poolside During the Vegas Residency type beat.

Not sure who was clamoring for a polo-workshirt hybrid, but we have one and it's great and makes way more sense than it should.

By Gerald Ortiz

By The Editors of GQ

By Gerald Ortiz

IDK it's warm out. Have fun, wear a loud shirt, try to make sure that it goes as hard as Jacquemus’ do.

The good pattern makes it pop, the good color makes it easy to style.

Looking like a translucent tennis ball been has never been this mf sexy.

By Gerald Ortiz

By The Editors of GQ

By Gerald Ortiz

Loud embroidery is having itself a little moment—this is a slightly quieter entry point for the curious.

Kapital went and put a patchwork shirt inside a gauze shirt and then destroyed the shirts and then fixed them and it was all 100% worth it.

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