How Do You Wear Your Collars?

[Kora]

I usually wear them up, It make feel more trendy (especially at work) not just like wearing a plain old shirt!

 

[Harvz88]

i've been debating if wearing them down is "anti-trend" seeing as wearing them down was the original intent...

 

[highheels]

We'll i just bought this jacket today and i'am definetly wearing the collar up.

 

[sbbbjm]

i remember working as a sacker on sunday mornings at the yuppy grocery store, and there was this older man had to be in his late 50's early 60's who always came in bought a paper and a cup of coffee and just sat out on the patio and read the paper. same sunday uniform everytime -- some brightly colored lacoste polo, that looked effortlessly thrown on with the collar flipped up (unironed, but in a goodway), some coordinating chino shorts (my fave were his faded red ones and mint green ones or even seersucker) some golf cap, classic ray ban tortise shell sunglasses, and driving loafers. it looked like a second skin on him. everything just look so effortless and he wore that collar up very well. he had clearly been doing this before the trend. it looked like a part of his lifestyle.

. . . not like some AnF worker who wears it up because that whats their managers tell them to do (ooh and they so do dictate what their gonna wear. my friend worked there and she said her managers said she had to go buy a certain pair of puma's for work)

 

[orlem]

I don't have any shirts with collars but I flip up the collar of my trenchcoat, it makes the lapels stick out a little at the top too

Maybe it's Dracula-like; I think of it as more of a political revolutionary/conspirator look

 

[alyssaasd]

I'm new to the board, but this post caught my eye bc everyone at my school is wearing their collars up... especially people who just can't pull it off and it drives me nuts. My friend showed me this "editorial" from the Georgetown Heckler

Georgetown Hecker

I don't agree with this at all, but I thought that the absurdity of it was funny. Take it with a grain of salt....

Opinion
Wearing Your Collar Down is for Poor People
By I.M. Adick, III
When my ancestors came over to this great country 400 years ago, they had a vision for a utopia, free from minorities, liberals, poor people, homosexuals, and immigrants. There are few today who share such lofty ideals, but we're easy to find: Pastel polo shirts, loafers without socks, tucked-in shirts, but most importantly, collars up.
Call me a douchebag. Call me an arrogant little cocksucking d*ckhead. Beat the sh*t out of me if I'm not with fifteen of my B-frat friends (unlikely). But just know this: I interned at Smith Barney this summer. Where did you work? A Blockbuster? That's right you insignificant sack of dogshit; I'm going to be your boss. So take your t-shirt wearing, financial aid, blue-collar *** over to Blockbuster and get me a copy of Old School. Do you even own a tuxedo?
Look at my girlfriend. You think she'd go for someone who didn't have his collar up? I don't think so. I remember the night I met her. I bought her so many $9 drinks she couldn't even walk. So I drove her home in my BMW 328ci, but not before I took a few "liberties" with her. The next morning I took her to brunch and went to the mall, where I bought her some blouses. You assholes don't know the first thing about being a gentleman. You probably don't even know how to sail.
When I get out of business school, I'm going to be making $120,000 a year. Add that to my trust fund, and I can buy a country club membership, a ski house, and still have enough money to go barhopping around the city in my designer clothes and sh*t-eating grin. Maybe I'll offer you a hundred bucks to flip my collar up for me. I earned it you middle-class f*ck up. I bet you went to public school.
You're so predictable. I bet I can guess your political party just by looking at you. My cronies and I range from elitist northern liberals to heartless conservative bastards. I've wasted enough time with you. Get some rich parents, an internship, and a pink polo with the collar up, and then maybe I'll let you hang out with me.

 

[As You Like It]

Originally posted by alyssaasd@Oct 15 2004, 01:17 PM
I'm new to the board, but this post caught my eye bc everyone at my school is wearing their collars up... especially people who just can't pull it off and it drives me nuts. My friend showed me this "editorial" from the Georgetown Heckler

Georgetown Hecker

I don't agree with this at all, but I thought that the absurdity of it was funny. Take it with a grain of salt....

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Sarcastic humor at its finest!

 

[Harvz88]

welcome welcome!

what a fabulous article alyssaasd!

 

[Alejandro]

I wear them up, on Lacoste polos im pushed to wear it up all around, on some jackets and shirts I only pull up the back side.

 

[Misako]

Ha! I saw that article ages ago, but completely forgot about it! (I love that school, hope to transfer there).

Yeah, it's a very popular thing there to pop the collar...at least I won't stick out there if I go. lol.

I love the sarcasm in that article. Love that site, period. Haha.

 

[mdankwah]

this tread reminds me of next month's karl largerfeld collection for h and m, i saw soem pictures of it in british gq yesterday and they seem kinda nice
sorry to go off topic

 

[bohemian rhapsody]

Originally posted by alyssaasd@Oct 15 2004, 12:17 PM
Georgetown Hecker

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Seen it before, too. Quite funny.

I like to pop that collar on occasion... it's more flattering to my face (as are turtlenecks/mocknecks).

It doesn't work with all shirts and the flipped-up collar just doesn't agree with some ensembles.

 

[twilight fairy]

DHiofdghdfoihg I really don't like popped up collars. DOWN ALL THE WAYY!

 

[marcXcore]

Originally posted by PrinceOfCats@Sep 10 2004, 05:32 PM
No, it makes you look like Count Dracula on a bad hair day.

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If done right, you could look like Count Dracula who has a well framed face.
I find collars do wonders for showing off beatiful jawlines, and showcasing the face.
And if the shirt is white, even better. Serves as a wonderful 'uplight', which floods the face in an amazing glow and gets rid of that unsightly darkness under the eyes, which horrible 'top of the head light' often casts, even on the most beautiful faces..

Maybe it's just me.
But I'm for this 'trend'.

 

[marcXcore]

Originally posted by Alejandro@Oct 17 2004, 03:13 PM
I wear them up, on Lacoste polos im pushed to wear it up all around, on some jackets and shirts I only pull up the back side.

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Here here.
I felt a bit cheated when Will on Big Brother stole my thunder by showing the entire country his popped up Lacost collar.

Sometimes I wish I was on national television.

 

[hilfiger10025]

UP!

To me it's only natural , i grew up at the golf course where everyone did it and to this day my aunt STILL wears her collar up with her 20 year old Gucci handbag that she bought when she got out of college.

so it's not really a trend here (i think im the ONLY one in school that does it) but to me its only natural, nothing more nothing less

 

[Vinniccio]

I agree with Enrichi. Katherine Hepburn made it look good. However, she had the neck for it. People with short or thick necks should not do this. I attracts more attention to this fact. For me, personally, it all depends on the article of clothing. Most of my outfits, it looks better having the collar turned up. But in the case of wearing a denim jacket, a suit, or my tux, then of course the jacket collar stays down. Leather it is always pulled up on the backside. It just gives the look that much more B)

 

[Misako]

It's not a trend at my Uni either - the people that do wear it up (like myself) come from a place that does have it as sort of part of the tradition. Although I have this polo that's part cashmere from RL, and I'm a little disappointed because the collar doesn't pop the way I want it to. It's too soft, and I won't starch it.

I agree with Vinniccio, too, though - you kind of have to have a certain look to pull it off REALLY well - I've seen people with short necks try it, and it just looks awkward. But most of the time I like it.

 

[southerncutie]

After reading this topic and commenting, I actually realized that my mom and dad both will pop their collars w/o being trendy- when I was little, I copied my mom and did it as well... all of my friends will sometimes pop them, as will I- it's more flattering! But- my lacoste won't stay- I'm considering starching it... it wilts after a while

 

[tresjolie]

dunno if you guys have seen this but....
http://www.duke.edu/~dce/comic1.jpg