It’s a lot of positions for one garment to play, which makes it all the more important to get the right T-shirt. Each of us have searched nearly our entire lives for the perfect plain white tee.

If you can't ace the most basic part of your wardrobe—that is, a plain white T-shirt—you might as well give up on dressing now. Okay, I'm being hyperbolic, but I stand by the sentiment that a ...