Your closet should include some space for white dress shirts, preferably several in varying degrees of formality. The white dress shirt is a perfect base from which to build your look, an essential, like flour in the pantry.

White dress shirts are the perfect base from which to build your look.

• There is nothing quite as sharp as a crisp white dress shirt.

• Even if you're foregoing a tie, a white dress shirt amps up your style.