Dumb question: it would be preposterous to wear a cutaway collar w/o a tie, right?

[MetroStyles]

Just making sure.

 

[whiteslashasian]

Not at all.

I did it last weekend and thought it looked damn good. You should be able to find examples in the WAYWN thread which illustrate decent looking examples of this look. obscurity [sp?] does it well.

 

[MetroStyles]

Originally Posted by whiteslashasian

Not at all.

I did it last weekend and thought it looked damn good. You should be able to find examples in the WAYWN thread which illustrate decent looking examples of this look. obscurity [sp?] does it well.

Did you have any buttons unbottoned?

 

[Mr. Moo]

Do what you want and don't worry what others think.

 

[MetroStyles]

Originally Posted by Mr. Moo

Do what you want and don't worry what others think.

This is a general question, not a personal one.

 

[DocHolliday]

Simplest solution is just not to wear cutaways at all.

 

[whiteslashasian]

Originally Posted by MetroStyles

Did you have any buttons unbottoned?

I had the top 2 unbuttoned.

 

[MatthewN]

I'm wearing one right now. Top button undone. I prefer point collars when wearing them unbuttoned and untied, but I don't think a spread collar looks preposterous.

 

[Svenn]

I thought cutaways or extra-high collars (+1.5'' collar band) were the IDEAL shirts to wear without a tie and unbuttoned. Obviously if you get a huge disco collar it will look awful. Normal collared shirts look too low on the neck and lazy if they're ubuttoned w/o a tie. Higher collared cutaways, because of their height, keep a relatively equivalent amount of visible white fabric around the neck as a normal collared shirt would if it was buttoned.

 

[vitaminc]

those look like regular spread collar, not the close-to-180-degree-cutaway collar.

pitt is wearing regular spread for sure. the bottom red check looks like a slightly wider spread but not yet cutaway.

edit: yes i think it will look marsupialed.

 

[Mr. Moo]

 

[Svenn]

Originally Posted by vitaminc

those look like regular spread collar, not the close-to-180-degree-cutaway collar.

pitt is wearing regular spread for sure. the bottom red check looks like a slightly wider spread but not yet cutaway.

I didn't think cutaway was defined exclusively as 180 degrees, rather anything from 100 to 180... sometimes Americans define it as anything above 70 degrees. Yes, 180 degrees would look bad as in the pic immediately above, but that's also a narrow collar.

 

[Chim12]

I thought cutaways or extra-high collars (+1.5'' collar band) were the IDEAL shirts to wear without a tie and unbuttoned. Obviously if you get a huge disco collar it will look awful. Normal collared shirts look too low on the neck and lazy if they're ubuttoned w/o a tie. Higher collared cutaways, because of their height, keep a relatively equivalent amount of visible white fabric around the neck as a normal collared shirt would if it was buttoned.

+1, these are ideal... far too often do you see the shirt and jacket w/o tie look with the awful looking droopy collar that falls below below the jacket collar and simply looks sloppy. An extreme cut away may look odd, but the typical wide spread to moderate cut away is the perfect look when going unbuttoned with a jacket.

 

[MetroStyles]

For the record, I am referring to a cutaway to the degree of say, RLBL.

 

[SkinnyGoomba]

I think anything other then a point collar or button down looks strange without a tie.

FWIW, that BL collar is a spread.