18 Best White T-Shirts for Men 2023

The T-shirt isn’t just a bona fide menswear icon, it’s an avatar of American cool that’s managed to catapult beyond its humble beginnings—remember, before Brando turned it into a sex symbol in its own right in A Streetcar Named Desire, the tee was generally regarded as an undergarment—and become the most dominant piece of clothing on the whole damn planet. Show me one person you know without at least one T-shirt in their rotation, and I will show you someone who is lying to you, my guy. And when it comes to tees, there is no version more elemental, more perfectly distilled, than the plain white T-shirt.

All of which is to say, if you’re one of those people who considers himself somehow above or beyond the white tee, you might want to reconsider. You can conjure images of Brando and Dean, if you like. Or you can simply consider the utility of the white T-shirt in your wardrobe and realize, yeah, it might be good to have one—or a few!—of those in rotation. After all, the options when it comes to this particular garment at this particular point in time are pretty much endless. You might have exacting tastes (of course you have exacting tastes), but when you’ve got pocket tees and curved-hem tees and boxy tees and organic cotton tees and good-old-fashioned crewnecks at your disposal, you really should be able to find something that strikes your fancy.

In fact, there’s so much going on in the white-T-shirt world right now that the biggest hurdle might not be deciding that you want one but deciding which one you want. That’s where the list below comes into play. Every single option on it is worth it, delivering exceptional bang for the buck whether the price is around $10 a shirt or ten times that. You might be in the market for bulk-buy options that provide exceptional value, or you might be looking to invest in something that feels truly luxurious. Hell, you might be looking to do both, or to play around anywhere in the expansive middle ground where you’ll find some of the coolest makers on the market breathing new life into old reliable. Whatever you’re looking to buy, though, start here.

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