Collar (clothing)

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William Shakespeare in a sheer linen collar of the early 17th century, a direct ancestor of the modern shirt collar.

In clothing, a collar is the part of a shirt, dress, coat or blouse that fastens around or frames the neck. Among clothing construction professionals, a collar is differentiated from other necklines such as revers and lapels, by being made from a separate piece of fabric, rather than a folded or cut part of the same piece of fabric used for the main body of the garment. A collar may be permanently attached to the main body of the garment (e.g. by stitching) or detachable.
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1 Origins 2 Terminology 3 Types of collars

3.1 Collar styles

4 Buttoning 5 Extended meanings 6 See also 7 References

8 External links

[edit]Origins
The Oxford English Dictionary traces collar in its modern meaning to c. 1300. Today's shirt collars descend from the ruffle created by the drawstring at the neck of the medieval chemise, through the Elizabethan ruff and its successors, the whisk collar and falling band. Separate collars exist alongside attached collars since the mid-16th century, usually to allow starching and other fine finishing. During the Edwardian period and sporadically thereafter, ornamental collars were worn as a form of jewelry.

[edit]Terminology

Band - a strip of fabric that fastens around the neck, perpendicular to the body of the garment, to which a collar proper may be attached.

Collar stiffeners, bones or stays - strips of baleen, metal, horn, mother of pearl, or plastic, rounded at one end and pointed at the other, inserted into a man's shirt collar to stiffen it and prevent the points from curling up; usually inserted into the underside of the collar through small slits but sometimes permanently sewn in place.

Points - the corners of a collar; in a buttoned-down collar, the points are fitted with buttonholes that attach to small buttons on the body of the shirt to hold the collar neatly in place.

Spread - the distance between the points of a shirt collar. Stand - the band on a coat or shirt collar that supports the collar itself.

[edit]Types

of collars

Collars can be categorized as:

Standing or stand-up, fitting up around the neck and not lying on the shoulders. Turnover, standing around the neck and then folded or rolled over. Flat or falling, lying flat on the shoulders.

Collars may also be stiffened, traditionally with starch; modern wash-and-wear shirt collars may be stiffened with interfacing or may include metal or plastic collar stays. Shirt collars which are not starched are described as soft collars. The shape of collars is also controlled by the shape of the neckline to which they are attached. Most collars are fitted to a jewel neck, a neckline sitting at the base of the neck all around; if the garment opens down the front, the top edges may be folded back to form lapels and a Vshaped opening, and the cut of the collar will be adjusted accordingly.

[edit]Collar

styles

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Names for specific styles of collars vary with the vagaries of fashion. In the 1930s and 1940s, especially, historical styles were adapted by fashion designers; thus the Victorian bertha collar, a cape-like collar fitted to a low scooping neckline, was adapted in the 1940s but generally attached to a V-neckline. Some specific styles of collars include:

Type

Other names

Ascot collar

stock collar

A very tall standing collar

Albany collar

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Band

Grandad collar

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Barrymore collar

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Bertha collar

A wide, flat, round collar, and resurrected in the 194

Buster Brown collar

A wide, flat, round collar, boys' shirts from c. 1880-

Butterfly collar

The same as the wing coll

Button-down collar

A collar with buttonholes

Camp collar

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Chelsea collar

A woman's collar for a low

Clerical collar

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High neck collar

A collar that covers all or

HRH collar

Stand-up turned-down collar

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Imperial/Poke collar Jabot collar

A stiff standing collar for the front

A standing collar with a p

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Peter Pan collar Piccadilly collar Pierrot collar Poet collar

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A shirt collar with a wide

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A shirt collar with only a collar using shirt studs.

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A stiffened half-circle col

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