Do you use them, the collar stays?

[gladhands]

Recently, I've started wearing my shirts without collar stays. I prefer a nice collar roll, and feel that the stays detract from that. Metal stays work for me because I can bend them into the roll I want, but plastic stays do absolutely nothing for me.

 

[patrickBOOTH]

I feel like collar roll is achieved by not having them, but also a button down collar. Collars flipping up is something else entirely and only an old Italian guy can get away with it.

 

[Ebonyman]

Always. I have no use for my collar flipping up when I'm wearing a suit. Actually, I don't want it flipped even if I'm casually dressed...

 

[Blackhood]

I had some sterling silver ones engraved with my name so I use them for work. y rule is:

Windsor knot: Collar stays

FiH: No stays

 

[patrickBOOTH]

If you wear shirts with soft sewn in interfacing the band of your necktie can make an intentation on your collar. I don't like that.

 

[Cant kill da Rooster]

I always wear stays. I buy the hard plastic ones from BB. I find they are a bit stronger than any other plastic ones I have found. I can't really justify the expense of metal ones and god forbid MOP.

This might be a dumb question but why do you want a roll? If you mean for a casual, no tie look, then I would just not put them in.

 

[gladhands]

Originally Posted by Cant kill da Rooster

I always wear stays. I buy the hard plastic ones from BB. I find they are a bit stronger than any other plastic ones I have found. I can't really justify the expense of metal ones and god forbid MOP.

This might be a dumb question but why do you want a roll? If you mean for a casual, no tie look, then I would just not put them in.

The roll is just a preference. I like it with and without tie. I've never actually purchased a collarstays. If they didn't come with CT shirts, I probably wouldn't have any metal stays, myself.

 

[Manton]

Not for years.

Black tie tonight and I will use stays with my formal shirt but that's it.

 

[aravenel]

Always. I think it looks sloppy without them.

 

[SpooPoker]

FWIW, I put stays in when I remember, but there are days when I dont...and I have never, ever had a flipped collar. True story.

 

[JayJay]

I usually put mine in.

 

[tim_horton]

I always use them. I think it looks messy without them.

 

[Gus]

I have some shirts that seem to need them while others have a nice, gentle collar and don't.

 

[JakeLA]

Collar stays are for schmucks.

http://asuitablewardrobe.dynend.com/...mmer-suit.html

 

[Metlin]

Originally Posted by SpooPoker

FWIW, I put stays in when I remember, but there are days when I dont...and I have never, ever had a flipped collar.
Pretty much the same here. And I take them with me when I travel, although on a couple of occasions, TSA has asked to look at them.

Originally Posted by SpooPoker

True story.
This part? Not so much. But clearly, I'm not the Chuck "Spoo" Norris when it comes dress shirts.