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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Chloe Mac Donnell

Sales of white ‘boyfriend’ shirts soar as Victoria Beckham endorses trend

Victoria Beckham wearing a roomy white shirt and blue denim jeans, sitting on a dark grey sofa with pink flowers in the background as she is interviewed
Victoria Beckham wore a roomy white shirt for her interviews in the Netflix documentary Beckham. Photograph: Netflix

It has long been a permanent fixture in the boardrooms of financial institutions but now the button-up business shirt is manspreading its way from the square mile to the high street – making the “boyfriend shirt” a must-have fashion item.

In the new Netflix Beckham documentary, Victoria Beckham endorsed the trend by choosing an XXL white shirt to wear for her at-home interviews.

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