Collar up on Polo Shirt - Why?

[EVENKEEL]

So, it would seem old guys have their collar ironed up for fashion? Does it make you feel younger? 

[JayClay]

Maybe it makes them feel less sun burned?

[Yellowtail]

It was a thing back in the '80s, yes? 

 

I think it's a gay think now. 

[Thailand]

I don't play polo so not really able to answer whether tis up nor down.

[bluebluewater]

You don't understand popped collar KOOL?

[terryq]

You have a special shirt just to eat mints ?

 

 

[EVENKEEL]

2 minutes ago, bluebluewater said:

You don't understand popped collar KOOL?

Didn't know the term popped was used for the silly collars starched up.

[Yellowtail]

4 minutes ago, bluebluewater said:

You don't understand popped collar KOOL?

Too kool for me 

[Yellowtail]

1 minute ago, EVENKEEL said:

Didn't know the term popped was used for the silly collars starched up.

[sapson]

 I hope your life is not impacted too badly from witnessing this fashion faux pas and you swiftly recover from any ill effects.

[KhunLA]

24 minutes ago, JayClay said:

Maybe it makes them feel less sun burned?

Or keeps the mozzies off the back of your neck.  Little bastards were chewing my A$$ up last week, and I actually put the collar of my shirt up, while out snapping photos.

 

Had to opt for trainers & sock vs open sandals, long pants & long sleeved shirt.  Don't they realize it's hot out and they make thing annoying.

[EVENKEEL]

6 minutes ago, sapson said:

 I hope your life is not impacted too badly from witnessing this fashion faux pas and you swiftly recover from any ill effects.

Not at all, makes for a good laff.

[Andrew Dwyer]

Think Americans first thought they were Kool doing this ?

The Fonz rarely put his collar down and didn’t James Dean favour the peaking round the collar look ?

[Yellowtail]

7 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Think Americans first thought they were Kool doing this ?

I think it was the French and the Brits first. 

7 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

The Fonz rarely put his collar down

The Fonz wore white tee-shirts

7 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

 

and didn’t James Dean favour the peaking round the collar look ?

Not his shirts. 

[EVENKEEL]

21 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

I think it was the French and the Brits first. 

The Fonz wore white tee-shirts

Not his shirts. 

That was the leather jacket with collar up look. 

[RayWright]

Maybe it's a political thing?

[Yellowtail]

5 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

That was the leather jacket with collar up look. 

Indeed

 

[LennyW]

Sun here can be a <deleted> on the back of the neck!

[toofarnorth]

8 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Indeed

 

Is that Thomas the tank engine over on the right ?

[scubascuba3]

Handy for golf otherwise you end up with rubber neck

[jvs]

1 hour ago, KhunLA said:

Or keeps the mozzies off the back of your neck.  Little bastards were chewing my A$$ up last week, and I actually put the collar of my shirt up, while out snapping photos.

 

Had to opt for trainers & sock vs open sandals, long pants & long sleeved shirt.  Don't they realize it's hot out and they make thing annoying.

Try this,

[KhunLA]

9 minutes ago, jvs said:

Try this,

Nah, I avoid chemicals on my body, or clothing.  For my sake, and the dog's, as she don't need to be sniffing that krap.

 

If an animal is smart enough to avoid it, or die from it, I think I'll pass using it.

[NativeBob]

Honkies consider thats kinda kool. Koreans, Chinese too. Some 50+ thais with berretta or glock polo shirts think it makes them look more masculine. 

Maybe that should read like "me play golf mak-mak, me is rich and successful businessman with contacts that I play golf mak-mak"?

Looks pathetic.

[Lacessit]

I turn my collar up to avoid becoming a redneck.

Of course, I could achieve the same effect by wearing a MAGA baseball cap backwards. However, I understand that would involve a drop of IQ of 50 points, and I don't want to revert to the mean.

[vinci]

i heard it was the golfer fashion back in the days is to protect their neck from the sun since you stand out there all day

[jvs]

13 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Nah, I avoid chemicals on my body, or clothing.  For my sake, and the dog's, as she don't need to be sniffing that krap.

 

If an animal is smart enough to avoid it, or die from it, I think I'll pass using it.

Yes sorry for suggesting this,Dengue fever is much better.

 

[Yellowtail]

39 minutes ago, LennyW said:

Sun here can be a <deleted> on the back of the neck!

At night and indoors? 

[Yellowtail]

16 minutes ago, vinci said:

i heard it was the golfer fashion back in the days is to protect their neck from the sun since you stand out there all day

I think tennis 

[EVENKEEL]

30 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

I turn my collar up to avoid becoming a redneck.

Of course, I could achieve the same effect by wearing a MAGA baseball cap backwards. However, I understand that would involve a drop of IQ of 50 points, and I don't want to revert to the mean.

Do you use starch for the crisp look. I'm a beach guy so being a redneck isn't an issue. 

[Walker88]

We all have things we don't think look good, but since none of us is a god or a monarch, we have to accept other people have different tastes.

 

Personally, I don't like the collar up look, despite an indicted former POTUS often sporting that look.

 

Nor do I like tattoos on anyone, as in my opinion they make no one look better, and if one needs a special reminder of something, commit it to memory, not ink. If the memory goes, no one would remember what the tatt was for anyway.

 

I think if one wears a backwards baseball cap, he'd better either be under age 15 or else have a rap album that went Platinum.

 

Wifebeaters are okay in the gym, but in a restaurant or shopping mall, no good. And on an airplane? Geesh. Plus, if one lacks definition in the shoulders, it's better not to broadcast that in a wifebeater. Worse is a tribal tattoo where biceps and triceps should be.

 

The new fad of man buns is also rather unattractive. Toss in the outdated mullet, mohawk, and 'fashy', too (the one favored by Neo Nazis like Richard Spencer).

 

Maybe I'm dead wrong, but I also think grown men, especially pensioners, don't look smart in the same clothes a 5 year old rural Isaan kid wears. Avoid Mike Shopping Mall to build a wardrobe.

 

And don't get me started on fat! The late American football great Jim Brown was 6'3" and 235 lbs, yet he had a 28" waist. No matter how tall one is, anything over 31-32 inches is unsightly. Spare tires belong in the car trunk. Oh, and men cannot get pregnant, so shouldn't try to pretend they are by carrying that bloated overhanging gut so many expats seem to have. Un-tucked T-shirts do not hide a multitude of sins; the excess adipose tissue remains plain as day.

 

Sadly, I cannot right the world's fashion and physical faux pas and must simply accept that we all have choices and are free to appear in whatever manner makes us happy. So for the Cialis Collar...up to you.