Real Contrasting Collar Dress Shirts Don’t Exist.
Contrast collars are back. I guess they never officially went away, as men who really liked them seemed to always be able to find them. Take hockey commentator Don Cherry, for example, he has been sporting very high tight colors and very startched white collars for years. He must have his own custom tailor. However, big names are now producing them again as parts of their lines. It seems to me that “contrast collar” or “contrast color collar” was always a misnomer. You see, I have really never seen a contrasting color collar in anything but white. If they were truly contrasting, you would see other colors as well. Beige on Navy?
The actual real live color wheel suggests that white is not a contrasting color. Orange’s natural contrast is green, yellow’s natural contrast is purple. There is nothing on there to suggest the true contrast of light blue or navy or black is white. So, I propose a renaming of the shirts. I propose they should be called “white collared shirts.” Maybe “shirts with no-color collars would be more apropriate because white collared shirts have white collared shirts and I am not talking about them right now. Someone might get into a debate with me and say, “What are black colored shirts, then? Why are just white collars considered ‘no color.’”
Well, truth be told, when you are using colors with additive qualities, such as paint or dye, rather than things with subtractive qualities like using gels in lighting, white is the lack of color. When you add all the colors together you get a muddy black/brown, so black is closer to “all colors” as the base starts out as white. In lighting, if you have no light, things are black, but if you add a light of every color, add every color gel to a light, you get white when they are all added up. So you see where my argument lies for them being “No Color Collars.” If you were protesting these shirts, you would hold aloft a sign that would say “No No Color Collars,” and it may make people think you don’t understand double negatives that two “No’s” equal YES, so the shirt is saying you are pro COLOR collars.
Whatever side of the color wheel you are loyal to, there are enough choices out there for either wearing shirts that have collars the same color as the rest of the shirt, or “No Color Collars.” However, REAL contrasting collars I am still waiting to be widespread in dress shirts. How about you? Maybe just I want them made to prove they exist, versus me actually buying some for people as presents. So maybe it would not catch on after all?
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