Last edited by jsprowls9 (2007-02-10 09:01:42)

Interesting stuff.

Hypothetical history ofthe club collar in 10 steps


Maybe:

1. Boys wear Eton collar at Eton. Like those hats at Harrow, it becomes a trademark of boys going to that school.  As in, when there are a bunch of boys getting on the train after vacation, you can tell the Eton ones by the collar.

2. American prep schools have always imitated famous English schools like Eton.

3. One of them, or various students at all of them, participate in the English Speaking Exchange Program, at Eton.

4. They return to America, with some of those Eton shirts. They wear them around campus. They are considered interesting, edgy, weird, or otherwise attention getting.

5. Brooks representatives have already seen this interesting collar when in England. 

6. As these boys grow up, they ask if Brooks can make the collar.

7. Brooks can.

8. These boys, their friends, their distant admirers, and soon the whole Ivy gang adopts the club collar.

9. 10 years later these boys are out of college and at country clubs.

10. Brooks markets it as the Club Collar.

I think I finally figured out what "trolling" means. I had the image of a "troll", like something you expect to find in Norse mythology, but it just occured to me it means like a fisherman dragging a line and seeing what he can catch. Sort of makes more sense now ...

Duh

Last edited by Coolidge (2007-02-13 09:47:37)