In the 1810s, the shirt was hidden, with only two small, soft points of the collar protruding from the white ascot, along the jaw, touching the sideburns.
This collar descends very slightly and soon these two points become horny under the chin.
The white collar thus arranged then gives the impression that the head is placed on a Corinthian capital, the tie - now colored - acting as acanthus.
An incredible look, but dandyesque!
The bourgeois society that is establishing itself rationalizes this a little.
Around 1850, the collar became a rigid, white, impeccable, rigid and icy tube, with two small points bent forward: this is the broken collar.
But very quickly, the (current) drooping collar arrived and, from the 1870s, it somewhat outdated its overly dressed ancestor, to be reserved for the evening.
A movement which accelerated when icing and starching marked time in the 1930s. This prestigious collar disappeared in favor of the contemporary collar.
From 1950, there were no…
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