The collar style of mens dress shirts comes in wide available selections. This is designed to fit completely every man’s face and body structure. You can try some of these styles on your custom made shirts. In this custom made shirts you can design your own dress shirt according to your preference in collar, cuffs, fabric, buttons, and color. But lets focus first in the collar.
The straight collar which is the most widely used collar these days, designed in varying degrees of “down”. There are a list of “spreads” available wherein it entails to being the amount of length visible between the collars, neck, where the tie onto placed.
Pick out too-narrow spread, and you could be on GoodFellas poster.
Another type is what we call “spread”, which is a straight collar which extends to the sides where it is not anymore considered straight. This is also pertained to be the cutaway collar, where there is a space between collar tips. This type of spread is also called the “British Spread”, and this has also been popular even to Americans, as they love to wear anything that is European. This kind of collar has a wide collection of spread distances.
Another type is the button-down collar which has a fixed button on the shirt. This style of collar is popularly worn by Mormons, consulting firms, and mod parties. It can be hip or square, depending on how you wear it on. If you wear this kind of custom dress shirts, always check for the buttons making sure it is completely fastened.
The curved straight collar is another type which has a slight curve going outwards. This is a different kind of style and this is sometimes worn by Steve Martin.
A tab collar is a kind of collar which has a small stap-tab which connects the two collar sides. This is not been widely used but the style of this is for added security to the collars of dress shirts.
The banded type is just plain and no collar, just a button on the neck, which has been worn by Michael Stipe around 1990 and by Robin Williams in some formal events.
These various types of collar are designed according to its use and it is more appealing to see mens dress shirts with properly worn collar.
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