accessory.
GUYS rarely need to debate matters of casual style. For the most part, the rules are settled.
Socks, until you're ready to take Italian-style risks, should match trousers, not shoes. (It cufflinks for Monday-to-Friday wear. Keep obtrusive logos to a minimum, lest you be mistaken for a billboard.
It's all easy, shirt, when hell can break loose.
that objects are not merely objects, but also signifiers saddled with "cultural meaning") to a teenager, you would find it hard to do better than to bring up polo shirt collars. A polo shirt collar might look like nothing more than a harmless strip of pique cotton, but man, the way you wear it is loaded.
ever been committed by someone with a fully upturned collar. No one pitch in at the soup kitchen." An internet user's definition of "popped collar" on ?
"A sure sign of evil." And then there is a parody of trust-fund Robinson. Its title: "Collars down are for poor people.
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To the man who favours the upturned polo collar, the equation aristocratic bully boy" - might seem somewhat unfair. After all, didn't seem especially evil. And throughout the late 1980s and early '90s, one couldn't turn on the cricket without seeing Steve Waugh in the gully, nonchalantly chewing gum with, yes, his collar up, and now he is the key sponsor behind an orphanage in India.
Take that, Mr Village Voice!
Who is responsible, then, for the poor reputation of collar poppers? One may as well finger that omnipresent bogeyman popular culture, which has made preppy collar poppers one of its most reliable categories of villains, just behind Nazis, communists, Arabs and cigarette smokers.
James Spader used to wear an upturned collar in seemingly every other film, as did Tom Cruise's character in Risky Business and R B star Usher, who even named a song Pop Ya Collar in 2001. (Actually, the last two This is all a shame, because the upturned collar does make a certain amount of aesthetic sense, adding a vertical element around one's neck and framing the face in a flattering way, rather like the winged collar of a white formal-dress shirt. This is not a new stylistic principle, by the way.
Watch the gentlemen traipse as to the origins of the modern-day trend.
My final view: if you want to wear your collar up this spring, go ahead and do it. But keep in mind these three rules.
1. Upturned collars only work if your polo shirt is made of a Nothing looks more ordinary than a limp popped collar.
2.
Those polo shirts that reveal a blaring brand name when you wear the collar upturned? No. They truly are naff.
(I'm looking at you, Industrie designers.)
3. Whenever you wear an upturned collar, you run the risk of being perceived as an arrogant fraternity boy by those around you, so compensate.
Comport yourself with some modesty. Let the other guy through to the front of the drinks queue. Try not to disturb School.
Give way to the merging car. Surprise the hecklers and act like a decent human being.
Actually, that last rule is of more general application.
Manners are a fine accessory no matter what you are wearing.
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