Sunday, November 15, 2009

Ranting Stan's Irrational Hatred Of The Week: White collars .....

.... on coloured or striped shirts.

You know the sort of thing - often favoured by corpulent members of the legal profession or city bankers they are shirts with coloured or striped bodies with blindingly white collars - and usually cuffs too - that stand out incongruously. They became popular - I think - back in the 1980's and they should have stayed in the decade that taste forgot.

They look particularly bad when the collar is not only white, but a cutaway style too.

Revolting, tasteless and devoid of style. I hate them.

4 comments:

Pavlov's Cat said...

Back in my day as a City oik, they however quickly went out of fashion in the dealing rooms (if not the board rooms)
and became known as wearing a 'Wogan' due to that chat show hosts fondness for them in the late 80's

Much scorn and banter was hurled at the wearer.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Agreed. What were they thinking?

bernard said...

Red trouser braces parabolising over a corpulent front are still popular though...

Striped shirts said...

Not sure what to think of striped shirts to be honest.