Sleeveless Chambray Button Up Shirt

A sleeveless button-up shirt in lightweight cotton chambray, cut relaxed through the body.

Chambray is a lighter, more breathable relative of denim, and that is why this works in heat where a denim shirt would not. It is 100% cotton. The front carries pockets, the closure is a full run of buttons, and the sleeves are simply absent, so the shape is a shirt with the warm parts taken out of it. The fit is relaxed rather than close. The model is wearing a small.

Buttoned up it is a top on its own; left open over a tee or a cami it becomes a layer instead. That flexibility is the whole argument for owning one. It handles a hot day without giving up the structure a shirt provides, which very few warm-weather pieces manage to do.