In need of distraction from our on-going dumpster fire as we head to the 2022 mid-term elections, I saw this shared on Twitter:
The image came from this blog, plaidstallions.com, which has the tagline "Reviving the 70s a catalog page at a time." (There's more where this came from under the site's fashion mockery tag.)
The funniest comment in response, on either the original blog or the Twitter thread, was this: "This is so much shirt that the woman behind him doesn't need one!"
I'm confounded not just by the collar but by the color combinations available. No toxic masculinity for guys back in the early ’70s!
And the price is pretty high. I don't know exactly what year the catalog is from, but if it's 1972, $17.95 would be about $120. If it's as late as 1975 (which I doubt, from what it looks like), it would be $94.
I wonder what catalog it was from? I almost wonder if it's real, but the other pages on the blog look like things within the range of fashion styles I remember, so I'm giving the benefit of the doubt.
In general, a dog ear collar — which I had never heard of before — is much more reasonable and looks like this:
From photos of the other versions I see online, this type of collar is something you generally only see in women's blouses and dresses.
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