Collar (clothing)

Since the 13th century there is the collar as a decorative element to the clothing. Once only fixed to the jacket, then even the shirt, the shape of the collar of political and ecclesiastical authorities and dress codes has been influenced, and later of industrialization, mechanization, and not least of fashion and the particular way of life.

Development

The existing fine linen starched, pleated and externally reinforced with a wire millstone ruff of the 16th century is considered the largest and most prominent collar. The millstone collar took at times so large forms that dippers have been extended to carry the food to the mouth can. In Spain later dress codes prohibited oversized luxury and led a small, disc-shaped collar one, the Golilla.

At the time of Louis XIV, the Sun King, the collar almost disappeared under the full-bottomed wig, just a jabot adorned the chest slit a man's shirt. During the French Revolution was dispensed equally to an eye-catching collar jewelry and held the collar end only with broad cloths with many binding variants high.

The parricide the Biedermeier period was a stand-up collar with a stiffened neck and stiff and pointed collar parts that reached down to their cheeks. When the suit ( and the frock coat ) to the turn of the century fashion were, the collar was smaller again. The solid collar was replaced by abknöpfbaren collar of paper or rubber. About the (possibly differently colored ) shirt you wore a chemise, a shirt front.

Due to industrialization and thus the assembly of individual clothing garments such as shirts were a total simpler but also more independent, so that for example, may look impressive even without jacket. In today's fashion collars are comfortably cut and show a variety of forms that have the soft processing, and the shapes of suits and ties adjusted. Insert processing give the collar grip spite weggefallener collar stays.

Collars

Ruff

Kollar

Pierrotkragen

Turtleneck

Shawl collar

Stand-up collar

Parricide

Stuartkragen

• Peter Pan collar
• Kent collar New Kent collar

• Parricide