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I like to wear a collar pin when I wear a tie. I used to have a 2'' one but I lost it by accident. Now I'm using a few 2.5'' ones. Both 2'' and 2.5'' work well for me. AFAIK royal navy from UK/Australia/Canada didn't wear collar pins during WW2. CWAC and RCAFWD from Canada wore them a lot, and...

For those of you guys who wear collar pins/bars or tab collar shirt to keep a better look of the tie knot, I'm curious about which one would you choose and why. Replies and discussions are appreciated!!

(Photo credit: Elinor Florence, url: http://elinorflorence.com/blog/rcaf-dorothy-garen) If you look carefully at the shirt collar, it looks like a detachable collar. I'm curious that if detachable collars were still be worn as part of any uniforms during WWII?

As far as I know CLC had a very strict uniform code around 1950s, and the armies must surely also have such a code. Given there're so many other schools where students wear a collar pin with their uniforms, I guess a collar pin should not be counted as extraneous accessories/jewellry. What...

That's true, and wearing a collar pin is indeed more stylish. I can't forget the two scenes (getting changed on a train & talking with her lover on phone) where Joan Fontaine was so very charming!

So that means students usually bought shirts for their school uniform by their own choices?

(Continued) Barbara Streisand (circa 1960s). I also find some modern photos of this topic. Pia Antignani Some gorgeous American Saddleseat riders. Notice that they are wearing bar-style collar pin instead of safety-pin style ones shown above. (Perfect Silhouette!)

Hi everyone! It's my first time posting things here and I wanna share one of my (interesting) observations. I'm a suit and suit-style uniform lover and I collect quite a bunch of photos where women of different ages wear suit and tie or different types of uniforms. I find one thing very...