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Tucking a collar's wings behind the tie is extremely common and 100% incorrect.
Reflectively I want to say INCORRECT, but maybe we are saying the same thing.
From what I've seen I think the flattened wing tip is a perversion of what the wing tip collar was originally intended to look like... The original wing tip collars had the points sticking out horizontally from the collar--the points were like "wings"...hence the name. And they had to be stored in a collar box to prevent those wings from being crushed and...ahem...flattened.
Tucking a collar's wings behind the tie is extremely common and 100% incorrect.
It really depends on the collar. If you've got an authentic wing collar, it will be quite tall, and the wings will actually be above the bowtie, making this a non-issue.