Cuffs on a contrast collar shirt

[alden]

To bring the discussion round full circle one can categorically state that attached, contrast collars are never button downs with or without French cuffs.

Manton, I do remember seeing those in a department store one time. Terrifying.

[manton]

Sometimes I even see them on the street. New York can be tough town.

I am also seeing, more and more, contrast collars other than white. One popular thing is to take (say) a green checked body and put a green striped collar on it. Not my thing, to say the least.

[dopey]

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[westender]

Rereading this thread it strikes me that we are not separating out the types of detachable collars. There are both hard collars, in England these are typically winged collars and white, and soft collars (now extremely rare) that are usually self coloured. I had some shirts with detachable soft collars years ago, sadly they are now defunct however I turned up one of the collars only the other day in a clear out.

According to New & Lingwood we have the IIndian Civil Service to thank for the survival of the detachable collar as they are still widely used and that is where their supply comes from. They are also still part of the school uniform at some English publich schools.