The Fall 2016 Way to Wear a Plaid Shirt

One of Hailey Baldwin's sartorial special skills is to take practically any item in her closet and style it in a way that's alluring and cool. The latest example of her skill in action was her effortless way of wearing a decidedly not alluring piece: a flannel plaid shirt. Baldwin ingeniously took the current cool way to wear your jacket—off the shoulders—and applied that to the flannel shirt by buttoning all but the top few buttons and pulling one side off of her shoulder. It instantly makes the old favorite shirt style very of the moment for fall 2016, and it's an easy way to jazz up an outfit that could otherwise seem a little basic. Baldwin paired her Saint Laurent men's plaid shirt with leather skinny pants and ankle boots, which were the perfect match for the oversize top. (Ditto in the case of leggings and skinny jeans.)
Keep scrolling to see Baldwin's easy shirt styling trick and shop some of our favorite flannels!
On Hailey Baldwin: Saint Laurent Nashville Flannel Shirt ($690) and Stretch Leather Skinny Pants ($2950); Alaïa Lace-Up Leather Platform Ankle Boots ($1760).
Shop our plaid flannel shirt picks:
Have you tried fall's makeshift off-the-shoulder trend? Tell us in the comments!
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Allyson is a senior editor for Who What Wear. She joined the company in 2014 as co-founder Katherine Power's executive assistant and over the years has written hundreds of stories for Who What Wear. Prior to her career in fashion, Allyson worked in the entertainment industry at companies such as Sony Pictures Television. Allyson is now based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She holds a BFA in theater arts. Her path to fashion may not have been linear, but based on the number of fashion magazines she collected as a child and young adult, it was meant to be.
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