The all time award for the best, whitest, most perfect, most crease-free, white shirt on television in news in forever goes - for now and for evermore - to CNN International's (DStv 401) white-so-right Nick Paton Walsh.
If there's one colour frowned and shunned from being worn on television, if not actually outright banned (besides thin stripes) it is glorious, fantastic white.
The TV trope no-no stems from the difficulty to lit it right and cameras unability to prevent the wash-out effect which can cause a blurry-type "glow effect" as a transmission problem.
Yet white - crisp, perfect cut, crease-free, stiff open collar white - is exactly what Nick Paton Walsh, CNN International's senior international correspondent reporting live from Beirut, Lebanon wore on Monday night.
And he wore it best for the ages.
Soo many things - so many different variables - came together to help form the perfect on-air image. Take one away, and the effect no longer works.
The cut off the white shirt for Nick Paton Walsh is perfect. He either put it on just before going live or didn't move all day - it was basically purely crease-free.
The collar - left unbottoned as an open neck - still sported a stiff collar. Only the TV gods will truly know whether its starched or whether Nick Paton Walsh freshly ironed it while the shirt was actually on his body.
And take a look at the lighting - absolutely just perfect to make the white pop without blowing up, and framed against a beautiful black and amber Beirut backdrop.
Did even the CNN control room graphics person and the cameraman play and conspire along to make Nick Paton Walsh in white look smashingly amazing?
The black lapel mic is literally hidden just below his second shirt button at the exact place where the top of the blue banner starts.
The picture proportions and everything inside the shot is framed so perfectly, as to enable the blue bottom third on-screen banner - and where that has to be placed on the screen - exactly obscure the black lapel pic to the millimetre where it fastened on the shirt.
This is how you wear white on television.
Look and learn, people, look and learn.
