I like it!

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Holy smokes!!! I'm SO into that!!!

xo.
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I actually really really like that !!!

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I am absolutely loving this. How long before it catches on among the more trendy suit-wearers in Europe and North America? Quite impressed with them doing something so minimal, yet directional and unabashedly cool with the suited look.

Michelle

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Interesting approach, for sure!

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speachless!!

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Sartorial Japan…is that in the North?

Well it does make them seem more non chalant, but I think it looks sloppy. But that's just me!
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in an era of pre-stressed jeans, this is an elegant subtle tweak.

Haha that's interesting, might try it sometime and see the reaction I get ;D

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I love it!!!!!!

I am a fan of all things Japan, but this is definitely a "Dislike".

interesting..

I just love how the Japanese manage to subvert things all while showing deep respect. It takes a very evolved mindset to succeed at doing that.
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Perfect touch

Amazing. How does one "flip' their collar? With an iron?

Maybe the next sprezzatura trend should be unfinished hems. It's to the point where I almost want to ridicule the calculating, creativity-drained people who are Agnelli wannabes. Fashion editors: stop promoting this chalant bunkum!

That's interesting x

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very cool

I love it! I'd like to see some dapper Americans try it.

Its quirky but I think it looks a little untidy dont you?

Pop your collar?

hahahhaha Cool!!!

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I certainly dig it, though I feel like it wouldn't stay in place for long, especially if one is engaging in anything more active than walking around the city.

Trying to look effortlessly cool is very effortfull!

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Love it!

Japan knows whats up. Keep shooting in japan!

I like that.I do stuff like ghetting all suited up and the no socks.

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I like the people who is sure of yes same at the moment of dressing and who has personality at the moment of doing it. Regards from andalucía!
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Oh my, that is so cute !I love how creative the japanese can get, haha !

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Love the flower on the lapel. I used to live in Japan (blew all my money on designer clothing in consignment shops. For example a Costume National wool coat for equivalent of $80!I highly recommend you find some). They have so much fun with fashion over there.

Kakkoii! :) I would try it

Soon they'll be popping their collar all the way….

hah! cool.

i was there last spring doing some work.

must be a new thing.

rad!

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going back to the romantic style? it will be nice.

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wow small thing makes big difference! genius. x

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Can't wait to spot one here on the west coast.

Most my shirts do that naturally from neglect! ebay time!

I love that the first photo looks so accidental.
How tiring though, to have to work at looking nonchalant.

i likey these

I LOVE it. Panache with cute. I wonder how they flip it, though. Artful ironing with starch?

I LOVE IT!!!!

That's fun. :)

The flower lapel pin is made by Lanvin. It came free in last month's issue of a Japanese men's fashion magazine called "Men's Precious." I actually wore mine for the first time a week ago; got a million compliments on it! Comes in a bunch of different color combinations– mine's the same as the one in the picture here.

This is really interesting..I enjoy seeing how different parts of the world differ in how they dress up.

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Very elegant. I like the kawai little flower

this is a really cool detail…I'd like to see it fully executed

I would love to see someone with that. I seems stylish

I had no idea. I'll have to keep a look out for it!

then what are Collar stiffeners for?

This is fairly common in India as well – a carryover from 60's and 70's Bollywood style. Interesting to see it in a place as different from India as Japan.

Actually, this is a Saville Row thing. Certain gentleman who get their shirts custom made have been specifying that one collar point be longer than the other for decades (to achieve this very effect).

I did NOT know that!

I think Japanese guys often get on and take off their jackets and don't pay attention to their collars. I think that's how these happen.
Or, we have a short neck and if we straighten(or tuck in) a collar, it looks a bit tight around a neck. When I wear a button-down shirt, I never button two small buttons on the collar.

On Wall St. this "look" happens when you don't check yourself in the mirror before leaving for work.

During my trips to Japan I couldn't help but notice how stylish the men and women were, but this collar thing? I wish I could reach into that first photo and smooth down that collar!

I agree with those that say this is contrived… How odd to have to "do" something to "appear" nonchalant. You either are, or you aren't.

ugh…horrible

it is so calculated that how in the world could this appear nonchalant? Having dinner with a guy that flips his collar? Like pulling out fingernails one. at. a. time.

But is it nonchalant to work to appear nonchalant? Not so much. It would be cooler if it just "happened".

like the idea of men's suits being lightened up.
women's clothing has evolved and so should men's.
what makes the first photo interesting is the shape and colour of the geometric in the tie, mimics the floral lapel pin.

the non chalance of a flipped up collar is fresh.

Mmmm, I'm undecided! It's a thin line, stylish vs. pretentious… love that the Japanese play with the subtle details, and keep classic style alive (check out the reissued 'Ivy Look' book for preppy heaven), but maybe I'm too conditioned by collar stays…

The Savile Row thing about stays from Anonymous is interesting…I don't think there can be any stay in the top pic, short or not.

As usual the blog continues to challenge, and so it should. Bravo!

I never knew this! but i love it!!

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It is a take off on Italian Style. Scott detailed it himself in the beginning when he discussed Fabio Borrelli removing his shirt stays. Although Fabio is a salesman and massages the habit "to be comfortable", not wearing stays in your shirt, a common practice in the South of Italy, creates this look as your shirt collar starts to stick up and out. No offense to the Japanese, but this another thing they took from Italian styling.

Haha, where did that come from? Would love to know who or what originated it..

The annoying thing about trends is that the moment something becomes a trend, it's already passé really..

Not to be negative, just an observation :)

I LOVE IT!!!! :)

I rocked this look last Thursday when I forgot my collar stays- everybody at work "fixed" my collar all day- Don't know if Atlanta is ready for this look!

I've actually noticed this in some french new wave films! Have you seen The 400 Blows by Truffaut? The little boy's father has his collar like this the entire time.

There is such a clear distinction between the purposeful collar flip and the unkempt accidental collar flip. Honestly, does the guy in the picture look like an absent minded school master or a trader who just forgot to check the mirror before heading to work? Of course not. The line between the sloppy and the rakishly nonchalant is obvious here. Don't cross it and you're golden.

It looks a bit ridiculous with the suit collar, but I think it might work without the suit.

i dunno. trying too hard? but look at your post of 9/3/10! the difference between effortless and contrived…

yes, i like it too! although, i think using the collar flip requires a degree of being overall, formally polished. nothing else can be out of sorts – it would seem – if you are going to use the collar flip. otherwise it would appear unintentional, haphazard.

Its not that original tuxedo shirts have collars that I am sure inspired this look. To me it looks like he needs his suit lapel and his shirt collar pressed.

This is just a sign of an untidy mind.

Come on people. Over here (in Finland) all the teenagers in middle school do that. Seriously….

Looks like wings… but careless.

Pre-fab sprezzatura for the masses – I think I'll pass…

I love Japan!

Oh gosh! That looks so spontanteous…

Shouldn't nonchalance give, well, a nonchalant look?

I guess it is possible to catch one or two litte japanese men, carefully placing their collars in that position, hoping noone will see them doing it.

Synthetic sprezzatura gone bad.

Wow, that's so funny!

The shirt looks like it needs to be ironed.

I didn't know these were deliberately done!
my b/f got one of these in Japan and I thought it needed to be ironed
but I guess I was wrong!!
collars up/ hands up!
nonchalant it is!! :)

I think I will definitely have to be trying this.

I've never seen it though I'm living in Japan right now…
hmmm, gonna try to find it.

Been searching all over for a lapel flower like that. Found some that might just be cooler at JandHP.com

Great pic.

whatever…..

This is really easy to do.
Wear a widespread collar in the morning without the collar stays.
By the afternoon the shirt will develop a natural "roll" like this and it looks more relaxed yet elegent and tends to lengthen our "short" necks.

BUT taking yanking it out of the jacket…I find too manipulated…and it shows that you tried too hard…

I guess I'm more traditional than I thought, but, uh… no!

In a word. No.

I decided to try this out today. I'm curious as to whether anyone will comment on it.

ridiculous

Love this! I remember in Hong Kong everyone in the business district (I mean EVERYONE) was in a black suit. Man or woman, so sometimes pants and sometimes a skirt with the woman, but always, always, ultrablack fine fabric. And the shirts were white or some shade of blue in 99.9% of the cases. Don't know if you can compare this with Tokyo, but I'm thinking you'd latch onto any little personal style fillip you can get away with….

Never seen or heard about flipping collars…though I've lived in Japan almost 30yrs. I wonder how the collars are kept flipped…

mmmmmmm…………it looks like some was on a rush and forgot to fix the shirt. sloppy! i love fashion, but sometimes we can go over the top!