In clothing, a collar is the part of a shirt, dress, coat or blouse that fastens around or frames the neck. Among clothing construction professionals, a collar is differentiated from other necklines such as revers and lapels, by being made from a separate piece of fabric, rather than a folded or cut part of the same piece of fabric used for the main body of the garment.
William Shakespeare in a sheer linen collar of the early 17th century, a direct ancestor of the modern shirt collar.
Image: Japanese market pointerbrand wool band collar jacket (9598148489) (cropped)
Image: Actor John Barrymore (SAYRE 2535)
Image: Portrait of Hannah Fry (by Andrew Geddes)
A shirt is a cloth garment for the upper body.
Charvet shirt from the 1930s, Norsk Folkemuseum, Oslo, Norway
Factory sewing
Shirts on a conveyor
Shirts awaiting finishing