Birds of a feather

For Christmas, my dad got this "Falling Feathers Shirt"  on Atom Retro which at first look seemed a bit bizarre, a bit in your face. However, when you look a bit closer, you can see it doesn't go all that over the top (especially compared to paisley) and is actually pretty smart, with each feather having a slight blue streak as well as grey, black and white. Overall, pretty artfully done for a novelty pattern. It doesn't have a button down collar, but then you can't have everything.

Helpfully it also follows on from my earlier piece about how hard it is for new patterns to emerge - we generally stick with the traditional, tried and tested. Maybe this breaks the mould slightly, but then again it is limited edition, so perhaps not.