Buying Alexander McQueen Skull Shirt comes down to a few checks you can do from the product page. Everything else is preference. The shoulder seam should sit on the bone, not past it. Hold it up to the light. Opacity is the thing product photography hides best. The groups below run from the decision that matters most to the ones you make afterwards.

What decides this is shoulder seam, sleeve length and opacity. Everything else is preference. Two from the first group show the range: A.L.C.'s Leanna Silk Top at $495, and Isabel Marant's Igwen shirt at $595. The first is the easy entry point; the second is where the money goes. The shoulder seam should sit on the bone, not past it. Hold it up to the light. Opacity is the thing product photography hides best. A higher price mostly buys materials and finishing, and occasionally it buys nothing at all.

If the top is the point, keep everything below it plain. From the second group, Ann Demeulemeester's Andre Classic Shirt ($990) is the one that earns its place, because it works in more than one context without being restyled. The third group is smaller and deliberately narrower, tops, for the decisions you make after the main one. None of this needs the whole group. One piece from each is usually enough.

There are 20 tops here from 11 brands, $415 to $990, all in stock when this was written. We would not buy all of them, and neither should you. Leo Lin's Kathleen Striped Silk Blouse - Scarlet at $415 is the low-risk way in, and Ann Demeulemeester's Andre Classic Shirt at $990 only makes sense if this is a category you already use constantly. On alexander mcqueen skull shirt specifically: the difference between the top and the bottom of this list is real but smaller than the price gap suggests. Nothing here is included because it is famous, and price is not used as a proxy for quality anywhere on this page. If you take one thing away: pay for the thing that touches your body and economise on the thing that sits on top of it.