Roll Necks - Page 3

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Originally Posted by williamson 

Beware confusion! isn't it simply that roll-neck = UK usage, turtle-neck = USA usage?

Yes, but there is that other style that I mentioned - hard rolled halfway down. Wearing one today.

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Originally Posted by NOBD 

My first association is French existentialists, but I'm not sure they even wore them...

Impossibly cool.

Thought I knew a shot of Camus in one, but it was this:

Wonder what kind of buttons he has on that peacoat?

Flynn in black:

And the papa of all turtlenecks:

lefty

Here: http://asuitablewardrobe.dynend.com/2013/01/traipsing-around-dress.html

I don't do (or aspire to do/look like I do) anything nearly rugged/macho enough to want to wear really chunky/cable turtlenecks and share little aesthetic sympathy with the black turtleneck brand of cool, but I do like more typical turtlenecks. I have a bright red, a burgundy, and just received a great beige one. I've also got a white one on order. They're pretty versatile items.

But you know my absolute favourite thing about them? Wearing one means one less shirt to iron at the end of the week.

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Originally Posted by NOBD 

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Originally Posted by Holdfast 

I don't do (or aspire to do/look like I do) anything nearly rugged/macho enough to want to wear really chunky/cable turtlenecks and share little aesthetic sympathy with the black turtleneck brand of cool, but I do like more typical turtlenecks. I have a bright red, a burgundy, and just received a great beige one. I've also got a white one on order. They're pretty versatile items.

You'll get there, you'll get there. The chunky ones are the best.

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Originally Posted by Holdfast 

But you know my absolute favourite thing about them? Wearing one means one less shirt to iron at the end of the week.

Do you iron the shirts you wear beneath V neck sweaters? I hardly iron shirts in autumn/winter...

I'm far too prissy - and happily so - to wear the cable ones. Don't get me wrong, I actually like the look in an abstract sense. It's just not for me & my lifestyle.

As for the ironing, I don't wear a jumper or waistcoat every day, even in winter, and do all my ironing in one go at the end of the week. So yeah, I end up having to iron all my shirts. One less to do because I happened to wear a turtleneck during the week makes it feel a bit less of a chore...

I really like the fit on this.

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Originally Posted by NOBD 

Fitpic:

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Originally Posted by NOBD 
Get one, Dave

SNS Herring, right? You picked it up at Frans Boone?

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Originally Posted by NOBD 

I understand, Holdfast. The blue Boglioli I posted might fall just within your prissy bounds? Smooth ones are a bit boring, I think, and you've shown you can handle some texture; in your jackets, for instance, right?

Oh yeah, I could definitely wear something like that one, for sure. It's the really chunky ones that I don't think I could work into the rest of what I wear. But I don't mind a little variegation. For example, the beige rollneck I got recently is smooth, but has a lot of heathering/marling which gives it a more interesting colour than flat beige. I think the smooth, solid colour ones work better with suits whereas the marled (or in your case, thicker) ones work better with cords/jeans or whatever.