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Today we will be introducing the famous button-down collar, collars that have small buttonholes at the tip of each collar point which corresponds to a small button on each side of the shirtfront.
Let's get one thing straight. The button-down collar is a casual collar, and by casual we mean it shouldn't be worn with a suit, or at your work place. Before we go into the reasons why it is so, let's look at how the button-down collar came about. The button-down's roots can be detected on the polo fields of England during the 19th century, where the polo players wore traditional shirts for polo matches and in order to prevent their collars from flapping up (riding around in giant stallions causes that), causing a visual distraction, they sew buttons on their collar tips, fastening them down for matches.
Now, many may argue that buttons are perfectly acceptable on both formal and informal garments, citing suit coats that has numerous buttons. However, we need to understand that the buttons on suit coats, no matter how many, all have their purposes, which is to close the garment. The function of a button down collar is to fasten the collar tips so that it doesn't flap up. Let's look at the collars normally worn with a suit, be it a straight point collar or a cutaway collar. These collars have collar stays and are stiff enough so that the collar tip doesn't fly around. Unless you ride a horse during work, there is no way your collars will be flying around and thus, a button-down collar has practically no uses when it comes to formal dressing.
That being said, the button down collar is a fantastic collar when it comes to casual wear, or even during Friday dress downs. You can rock it with suit pants during a Friday dress down or with a pair of jeans during your “lazy-Sunday” brunches. It is one of the collars that people absolutely love when it comes to casual wear.
Remember, a button down collar is a great collar, for casual wear, not for formal wear. You'll never find a suit wearing model wearing a button-down collar in proper shirt-maker catalogues. For those who know about shirts, anyone wearing a button-down collar with a suit can instantly be identified as uninformed.
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