In clothing, a collar is the part of a shirt, dress, coat or blouse that fastens around or frames the neck. Among clothing construction professionals, a collar is differentiated from other necklines such as revers and lapels, by being made from a separate piece of fabric, rather than a folded or cut part of the same piece of fabric used for the main body of the garment.
A collar may be permanently attached to the main body of the garment (e.g. by stitching) or detachable.
Collars can be categorized as:
- Standing or stand-up, fitting up around the neck and not lying on the shoulders.
- Turnover, standing around the neck and then folded or rolled over.
- Flat or falling, lying flat on the shoulders.
The major collars are,
- Ascot collar
- Albany collar
- Band collar
- Barrymore collar
- Bertha collar
- Buster Brown collar
- Butterfly collar
- Button-down collar
- Camp collar
- Cape collar
- Chelsea collar
- Clerical collar
- Convertible collar
- Cossack collar
- Detachable collar
- Double Round Collar
- Edwardian Collar
- Eton collar
- Falling band
- Fichu collar
- Gladstone collar
- High neck collar
- HRH collar
- Imperial/Poke collar
- Jabot collar
- Johnny collar
- Lacoste collar
- Mandarin collar
- Man-tailored collar
- Mao collar
- Medici collar
- Middy collar
- Mock collar
- Napoleonic collar
- Nehru collar
- Notched collar
- Peter Pan collar
- Piccadilly collar
- Pierrot collar
- Poet collar
- Popped collar
- Pussy bow
- Revere collar
- Rolled collar
- Round collar
- Ruff collar
- Sailor collar
- Shawl collar
- Spread collar
- Tab collar
- Tunic collar
- Turned-down Collar
- Upturned collar
- Van Dyke collar
- Windsor collar
- Wing collar
- Y-collar
Next will explain about each type of collars identifications
