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The Havana Breeze is the dinner shirt in the Coastal Closet: 85 percent silk, 15 percent cotton, a spread collar, and a loose cut made to hang untucked. It’s the one that goes on after the pool, not into it.

We haven’t travelled with this one ourselves, so what follows is the spec and what owners keep saying about it.

85 percent silk, spread collar, nine prints

The blend is 85 percent silk and 15 percent cotton, and it’s machine washable on cold and gentle with a low tumble dry. Spread collar, short sleeves, button front, straight boxy body. The cut is relaxed and sized to American measurements, so the listing chart goes by chest and sleeve rather than by letter. Sizes run Small to XX-Large, though not every size is in stock in every print. Our pick is the yellow with grey-green botanical leaves, and the amazon.ca listing carries eight other prints and plains, from a navy floral to a black leaf to a plain white.

Seven o’clock, off the sand

Shower, this shirt, linen shorts, the terrace. Silk breathes in humid heat and hangs off the shoulders instead of sticking, so it stays comfortable through a long dinner. Then it goes in the machine at home afterward, which most silk shirts don’t.

What keeps coming up

The praise is for the make and for how cool it stays in heat, and the print gets called subtle rather than loud. Three things to know before it arrives. It runs big: the cut is roomy and the sleeves land past the elbow on a smaller frame, so size down if you want it to follow your shape. It doesn’t feel like slippery silk, because the hand is closer to a soft cotton. And the colour in the box is not always the colour on screen, since the yellow arrives brighter than the photos and the print reads more washed than the listing shows.