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[10] They claimed that since the mod scene was so pluralist, the word mod was an umbrella term that covered several distinct sub-scenes. Terry Rawlings argued that mods are difficult to define because the subculture started out as a "mysterious semi-secret world", which the Who's manager Peter Meaden summarised as "clean living under difficult ...
Mod fashion was often described as the City Gent look. The young men [91] incorporated striped boating blazers and bold prints into their wardrobe. [92] Shirts were slim, with a necessary button down collar accompanied by slim fitted trousers. [4] Levi's were the only type of jeans worn by Modernists.
Gradually, as tennis shirts became more popular and were produced more widely, their use transcended tennis and was adopted for golf, polo, other sports, and everyday life. As the tennis shirt entered the popular culture, wearers were less apt to turn up their collar to block the sun if not wearing the shirt during sport or outdoor activity.
Women's dress shirts are generally cut and/or seamed to follow the natural curves of the body, i.e. full at the bust and hip, whittled down at the waist. Where the dress shirt has been slimmed for ...
A starched-stiff detachable wing collar from Luke Eyres. A detachable collar or a false collar is a shirt collar separate from the shirt, fastened to it by studs. The collar is usually made of a different fabric from the shirt, in which case it is almost always white, and, being unattached to the shirt, can be starched to a hard cardboard-like consistency.
White tie, also called full evening dress or a dress suit, is the most formal evening Western dress code. [1] For men, it consists of a black tail coat (alternatively referred to as a dress coat, usually by tailors) worn over a white dress shirt with a starched or piqué bib, white piqué waistcoat and the white bow tie worn around a standing wing collar.
Catherine reportedly said she wasn’t wearing a bra and had to turn around so the flight attendant couldn’t see the front of her as she put on a sweatshirt. Image credits: TIL Valhalla Project
Steve Jobs (left) wearing his signature mock polo neck by Issey Miyake [15] Polo necks have been used as substitutes for a shirt-and-tie since the 1920s. [16] This was sometimes frowned upon in upscale restaurants and at weddings. John Berendt wrote in Esquire [16] the turtleneck was the boldest of all the affronts to the status quo.