Is it in style to pop your collar?

Are popped collars still in style? Of course, it’s always fun to add a little attitude to your look and a popped collar does just that. Any and all crisp or semi crisp button-down shirt is a candidate to pop. I love also adding a brooch at the throat which really keeps a woman’s collar up!

Why did people pop their collars?

That’s right: The first popped collar was not only intentional, but practical. The practice of wearing your polo shirt with the collar folded down didn’t catch on until the wealthy spectators, to whom avoiding the outdoors was a raison d’etre, adopted the style.

When was popping your collar cool?

Popped collars were a 1980s country-club trend that went mainstream with the rise of brands like Abercrombie & Fitch, American Eagle, and Aeropostale, and throughout the aughts were sported by everyone from Jersey Shore patrons to Kanye West.

When did men wear their collars up?

Despite our modern association of epic shirt collars with old-timey garb, collars didn’t really show up in the Western world until the mid-1400s.

What does a popped collar symbolize?

Today, some Americans regard the trend as having worn out, and thus the wearer of an upturned collar can be the object of mockery and scorn.

Can you wear two collars?

Wearing two collared shirts, one popped and one unpopped doesn’t even bear thinking on. One collared shirt at a time, properly folded over. The second thing to watch for is overlap with lapels if you wear a jacket — the points of the collar should never protrude beyond the edge of the jacket lapel.

When did shirts start having collars?

History. Today’s shirt collars descend from the rectangular band of linen around the neck of 16th century shirts. Separate ruffs exist alongside attached ruffled collars from the mid-16th century, usually to allow starching and other fine finishing, or to make collar-laundering easier.

When did button-down shirts start?

1896
Button-down collars, or “sport collars” have points fastened down by buttons on the front of the shirt. Introduced by Brooks Brothers in 1896, they were patterned after the shirts of polo players and were used exclusively on sports shirts until the 1950s in America.