Unhynged

A shirt label that avoids print

Most menswear at this price reaches for a print when it wants to be interesting. Unhynged reaches for texture instead. The range runs Cuban collar shirts from INR 1,499, seersucker at INR 1,999, crinkled long-sleeve cotton at INR 2,399 in navy, black, chambray and a blush pink, and hand-embroidered shirts at INR 3,999. What you are paying for as the price climbs is construction and handwork, not a louder graphic.

Which fabric for which weather

• Seersucker — the puckered weave holds the fabric off your skin, which is exactly what you want in Indian humidity. The most genuinely useful summer shirt here.
• Crinkled cotton — the crinkle is the point: it is meant to look lived-in, so it does not need pressing and does not punish you for a long day. Four colourways at the same price.
• Cuban collar — the open, flat collar sits away from the neck and is built for wearing untucked. The entry price and the most casual cut in the range.
• Hand-embroidered — Tarang, Saavan, Neel Pankh and Da Slow King at INR 3,999. Occasion shirts, and priced as such because the work is done by hand.

The honest trade-off on crinkle and seersucker

Both fabrics are designed to look textured, which means they will never read as crisp. If you need a shirt that looks pressed at 6pm after a day of meetings, neither of these is it, and a plain poplin elsewhere in the men's range is the better buy. If you want a shirt that looks the same at 6pm as it did at 9am because it was never trying to look sharp, this is the right label.

Care for the embroidered shirts

Hand-embroidered panels are the most fragile thing in this collection. Wash cold, inside out, and do not wring the embroidered section. Skip the dryer entirely. Treated properly the embroidery outlasts the shirt; treated like a t-shirt it will pull within a season.

Where to go next

See the full men's casual shirts range for other labels, trousers to pair with them, or the whole men's edit.