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Collar bars / collar pins and where to buy online?

Sanguis Mortuum

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Originally Posted by SkinnyGoomba
they're supposed to be worn with a point collar, or button down collar with the buttons undone.

I've never heard or seen of anyone wearing one with an unbuttoned button-down. Only with long points or club collars...
 

dron

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anyone know where i can get a collar bar like this in the EU/UK?
cj_VT100325Hs-SP_Collar_Bars_Silver_Plate_2_12_inch_Heavy_Duty_gold-collar_.jpg
 

Ianiceman

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Originally Posted by Blackhood
Maybe I'm too english for this thread but seeing people wear these bars/pins makes me feel sick. Its like wearing a button-down with a tie, so unnecessary and generally just too.... affected. Its like they wish to be on a late 70's front cover of NME.

+1 from a fellow Anglo.
 

Ianiceman

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Originally Posted by le.gentleman
+1 never seen or heard of that before

I have a picture of Fred Astaire with a tie, button collar shirt an a collar pin. What kind of hurricane force winds was he expecting that he needed two methods to control wayward collar points?
 

SkinnyGoomba

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Originally Posted by Sanguis Mortuum
I've never heard or seen of anyone wearing one with an unbuttoned button-down. Only with long points or club collars...

look closer or more often.

Also worn with club collars and those really short point collars.
 

amplifiedheat

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Originally Posted by Ianiceman
I have a picture of Fred Astaire with a tie, button collar shirt an a collar pin. What kind of hurricane force winds was he expecting that he needed two methods to control wayward collar points?

I think he was expecting to leap through the air and tap-dance furiously. The man occasionally employed explosives in dance. I always got the sense that the pin was more to lift the tie than to tame the collar.
 

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