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Tab Collars: Do You Own Any?

post #1 of 30
3/12/08 at 2:07pm
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I don't see tab collars much these days, but I've noticed in recent days that they seem to be a favorite of a certain ex-Governor.
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post #2 of 30
3/12/08 at 6:53pm
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Originally Posted by Quirk View Post
I don't see tab collars much these days, but I've noticed in recent days that they seem to be a favorite of a certain ex-Governor.

Hey! He isn't the ex-governor yet! Give it at least another 10-15 minutes!!!
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post #3 of 30
3/12/08 at 6:57pm
Rumsfeld would wear them too if you recall. Another option is to wear a collar bar under your tie with a straight collar, effectively making it into a tab collar.

Cordovan
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post #4 of 30
3/14/08 at 12:36am
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Do you think they had them made? I suppose Spitzer's gangly enough (and wealthy enough) that he might wear bespoke from head to toe. I can't remember seeing them for sale in the longest while, but maybe they usually just don't register with me.
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post #5 of 30
3/14/08 at 12:39am
I like and own tab collar shirts.

But, more importantly, re: Spitzer, that is a textbook example of the politician's repp. Study it. Learn it. Know it.
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post #6 of 30
3/14/08 at 12:42am
I am glad that Spitzer's replacement is legally blind, or I would not be able to forgive the fact that he wears Windsor knots with button-down collars.
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post #7 of 30
3/14/08 at 12:53am
I saw J.Crew was pushing the tab collar on their website. I remember seeing someone else advertising tab collar shirts as well. Maybe it's poised for a comeback. I was never a fan.
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post #8 of 30
3/14/08 at 12:55am
It's an early 90s look. It works OK with a medium width tie and a tight knot.
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post #9 of 30
3/14/08 at 12:57am
BTW, did anyone else notice the eerie similarity in appearance between his wife and his lady of the night (minus the wrinkles)?
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post #10 of 30
3/14/08 at 1:48am
tab collars.... I heard that's what the ladies who go to the Mayflower Hotel like.
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post #11 of 30
3/14/08 at 7:24am
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Originally Posted by greg_atlanta View Post
It's an early 90s look.
True, it is a more early-90s look. It is also an American phenomena: I can not recall ever seeing them elsewhere. I know I have never seen them here in the UK, or in Italy.
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post #12 of 30
3/14/08 at 11:39am
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Originally Posted by Crowlin View Post
True, it is a more early-90s look. It is also an American phenomena: I can not recall ever seeing them elsewhere. I know I have never seen them here in the UK, or in Italy.

I had a Polo tab shirt bought more recently (around the turn of the decade). Never truly adjusted to wearing it though and gave it away a couple of years ago. I might get another at some stage, but it's a long, long way down the list.
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post #13 of 30
3/14/08 at 11:41am
I always notice them on Germany's foreign secretary Frank-Walter Steinmeier:

I never thought of this looks as something linked to a certain period or a certain country. Maybe that's a sign for his secret love for America?
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post #14 of 30
3/14/08 at 3:20pm
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I always notice them on Germany's foreign secretary Frank-Walter Steinmeier:

I never thought of this looks as something linked to a certain period or a certain country. Maybe that's a sign for his secret love for America?

Many German men favor the tab collar, for example Rolf Breuer, former CEO of Deutsche Bank.

/Mr S
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post #15 of 30
3/14/08 at 4:00pm
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Originally Posted by Quirk View Post
Do you think they had them made? I suppose Spitzer's gangly enough (and wealthy enough) that he might wear bespoke from head to toe. I can't remember seeing them for sale in the longest while, but maybe they usually just don't register with me.

No. Strictly RTW, Brooks Bros. type of guy.

I read that he once tried a pale blue shirt, but he reverted back to white. He didn't feel comfortable in anything but a white shirt.
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