The Best T-Shirts for Men, Period

From bulk-buy stalwarts to small-batch splurges, these are the superlative tees worth your money right now.

In menswear’s hierarchy of needs, the shirt lies at the base of the pyramid. The best T-shirts for men, though, are more than foundational basics—just add a pair of rugged blue jeans à la Marlon Brando (or, for that matter, Jeremy Allen White), and the right one can be a big fit in and of itself.

Under normal circumstances, the sheer abundance of tees on the market would make narrowing down the options to a compact list kind of tricky. Thankfully, these are not normal circumstances. Because over the course of the last few months, the GQ Recommends squad trekked across the vast, overgrown T-shirt landscape and returned home with the booty: an infallible list of the absolute best T-shirts for men, regardless of style, budget, or situation. Here’s everywhere our journey took us.

The Best Men’s T-Shirts, According to GQ

• The Best White T-Shirt Overall: Lady White Co. Our T-Shirts, (2-Pack), $110
• The Best Budget T-Shirt: Kirkland Signature Crew Neck White Tee (Pack of 6), $45 $29
• The Best Undershirt: Calvin Klein Cotton T-Shirt (5-Pack), $70 $40
• The Best Workout T-Shirt: Rhone Reign T-shirt, $68
• The Best Oversized T-Shirt: Uniqlo AIRism Cotton Oversized T-Shirt, $15
• The Best Heavyweight T-Shirt: Buck Mason Field-Spec Cotton Heavy Tee, $55
• The Best Cropped T-Shirt: Abercrombie & Fitch Vintage-Inspired Cropped Tee, $29
• The Best Running T-Shirt: Bandit Drift Performance Tee, $68
• The Best Merino Wool T-Shirt: Proof 72-Hour Merino T-Shirt, $78