The rounded collar is the club collar, and it began at Eton in the 1860s as a way of telling one set of boys from another. It crossed to America and picked up a second name, the penny collar, and for the first half of the twentieth century it was the collar you wore with a pin through it, the pin passing behind the knot and pushing the tie forward into a small arch. Almost nobody pins a collar now, and the shape has outlived the practice, which is worth asking about. The reason is what it does to the face of a shirt. A pointed collar draws two hard diagonals down and away from the throat, and the eye follows them outward. A round one closes the shape instead of opening it. That reads softer without reading looser, and it is the only collar variation that changes the character of a shirt while changing nothing else about it.
Style Variants
Available Colors: White
Size Reference for Engineered Garments Rounded Collar Shirt
Available Sizes: M
