The Winter Edit: How to Wear Printed Shirts When the Temperature Drops

Printed shirts read as summer clothes until you learn the winter tricks. Then they become the thing that stops cold-weather dressing from turning entirely grey. Here's how to carry your prints from November through January — with picks from our Snow & Winter edit.

Pick deeper grounds

Winter light is softer, and prints on deep bases — black, teal, forest green — sit better in it than high-summer pastels. Our dark-ground prints and mountain scenics like the Alpine Escape Shirt were made for exactly this season.

Full sleeves are the winter default

Every piece in the winter edit favours full sleeves and layer-friendly cuts. A full-sleeve cotton shirt under a blazer or cardigan adds real warmth without bulk — and the collar and cuffs peeking out do the styling work for you.

The overshirt move

The most useful winter trick we know: wear a printed shirt open over a plain tee or thermal, as a light jacket. It adds a layer, shows the full print, and comes off indoors when the café heating is doing too much. We wrote a whole guide on it — The Layering Edit.

For the mountain holiday

Hill-station packing rewards prints: they photograph beautifully against snow and bare landscapes, and they hide the creases of a duffel bag. A scenic print — pines, peaks, alpine skies — against actual pines and peaks is the photo that wins the family group chat. See the Snow & Winter collection for the shortlist.

Wash-day note for winter

Cold-water washing — which our anti-bleed prints prefer anyway — is easier on fabric in winter, and shade-drying indoors works fine: our prints don't need sun to keep their colour, they just need to not be wrung out. Full care guide here.

Sizes S to 2XL, free shipping across India, COD and 7-day returns — and five new prints every Friday in the Friday 5, all winter long.