Ben Sherman

About Ben Sherman

In 1963 Ben Sherman refined the shirt, creating an icon of British men’s style. Its basic design was influenced by the classic American Ivy League shirt but Ben’s design vision added the back hook, the button on the back of the collar, but most importantly his feel and passion for fabric, pattern and colour created a unique garment.

The modernist British youth culture embraced the Ben Sherman shirt, loving it for its quality, slim-fitting style and unique design. The feeling was that there simply had never been anything on the English scene like it. The Ben Sherman shirt was revolutionary and so was the ‘mod movement’.

Now having existed for 5 decades the Ben Sherman shirt and brand have been adopted by almost every youth culture or style movement of the last 5 decades, from the mods, to 2 tone and ska, to brit pop and is today still worn by the current bands and style leaders of the current decade.