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Which is your favorite dress shirt collar

Which is your favorite dress shirt collar?

  • Straight Pointed (or Barrymore Collar)

    Votes: 6 8.2%
  • Spread (excluding cutaway)

    Votes: 53 72.6%
  • Button Down Collar (like Brooks Brothers)

    Votes: 8 11.0%
  • Tab Collar (worn by The Beatles in the 1960s to Don Rumsfield in the 2000s)

    Votes: 2 2.7%
  • Two-Button Collar (like in the early-mid 2000s)

    Votes: 2 2.7%
  • All

    Votes: 2 2.7%

  • Total voters
    73

MyOtherLife

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I wear spreads for work but I will always prefer a nice bd. Button downs got my vote.
 

connor09

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Torn between the spread collar and button down but I voted for the spread as that's what I use most of the time.
 

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I like the extra wide spread collar by Modern Tailor.
 

Mr Cucumber

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Why is not cutaway an option? With some exceptions, it is the only collar that I use.
 
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Stupid to require a single answer. I have no doubt that most of us have at least two collar styles that we always use, if not more. For me they are medium spread and button down. I don't prefer one over the other, they each have their place.
 

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Here's a picture of Sir David Frost from 1972 wearing a navy double breasted blazer, Turnbull & Asser spread collar shirt with trademark three-button cuffs, and blue necktie. Very classic and spiffy.

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Man, I wish I had a bespoke shirt like he had on :)
Do they have the exact fabric like the shirt Frost had on in this picture in the T&A archives?
 
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I would wear button downs exclusively if I could. I have some shirts that I happen to like with spread collars. I'm considering looking at some hidden button downs and seeing how I like them.
 

Makoto Chan

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I'll take advantage of this thread to ask a dumb question. Brooks Brothers has what they call an "Ainsley collar." I like it - it's not too pointed, not too wide. What do you call it?
 

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