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A pal and I were talking about placement of shirt collar points: hidden behind the coat's lapel or showing.

The current conventional wisdom is that the points should be hidden.

However in AA illustrations we regularly see both treatments; indeed, points showing is actually much more common.

What are your views?: should points be hidden or showing?

What do you specify if you have your shirts made?

I should have thought it depends entirely on ones style of collar; a traditional point collar will invariably show the points, as will many starched seperate collars - but a more spread and cut-away collar will result in the points being hidden: vide Mr. Alden's shirt in the thread on the club tie. My preference is for the latter style, as being less fussy, if you know what I mean.

Algernon

Altough the topic of this subject was the placement of shirt collar points, I have been strongly impressed by the cream DB presented in the first post (3.24 p.m.), published in AA. The suit is one of the most beautiful DB that I have ever seen for both the splendid rolled lapels and for its cream nuance. I would suggest to Mr.Alden to propose such a suit ,made of solaro or gabardine fabric , as one of the classics for the spring summer/season.

Angelo

Dear Angelo

I agree with you. My first choice would be unlined Irish linen, followed by Gabardine and then Solaro. All would be very handsome.

M Alden

Ofcourse, these tan suits are beautiful, Summer classics.

Below are some further illustrations of tan suits and jackets, taken, with thanks, from Etutee's wonderful reference series of posts.

Ofcourse to fuily appreciate the outfits, the illustrations should be viewed in conjunction with Etutee's commentary found in the Archive of Featured Articles here in London Lounge.

An enigmatic 'point' configuration and placement. Fashion's mysterious genius: Cristobal Balenciaga