Liam, I think your modifiers are dangling.

Do you find it hard not to think of removable collars ? Or is it hard not to think about the detachable collars that you find ?

I shall find no rest until you clarify this.

I guess we will now be treated to a discourse on the most iGent collar studs.

Pity I don’t still have my old RAF shirts with detachable collars from the late 60’s they might be worth a bit with the right promotion.

^
I thought Lacan was dead...!

I would argue that the removable collar is an example of the increasing commodification of costume practiced by the petite bourgeoisie (i.e., the proto- iGentry) during the transition to late capitalism. The petit bourgeois becomes increasingly alienated as he is caught between the pressure applied from above by the haute-bourgeoisie and the restless rage of the proletariat seething beneath him.  Balanced on the horns of this dilemma - a Scylla and Charybdis, as it were - the anxious petit bourgeois affects a wholly false insouciance by making disposable as much of his costume as possible, hence more expensive.  This feigned indifference to price is characteristic of a class whose material foundation is being slowly ground away by the insatiable demands of capital to seek higher profits in places where they are not; thus, rather than rebel against his inevitable immiseration and loss of status, the petit bourgeois's alienated rage is turned inward, upon himself, and he rents his raiment in a stylized fashion by discarding the symbolic covering of his throat.  There, before a mirror in his bedchamber, he can brazenly expose his throat to his own, solitary gaze; the throat that both of his antagonists would gladly tear open to wash their hands in his surging blood.

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...I'm waiting for someone to link all this up to the square root of -1

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Speaking of which:

http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?113145-quot-Only-Brown-quot-Belt-Review
Andy shills for a Singaporean retailer of Scottish belts (belts, not pelts, so do not expect a macabre pale pink and red throw rug, as I did).

http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?113286-How-does-one-tell-if-a-button-hole-is-hand-sewn
Tocqueville wonders how you can tell that a buttonhole is hand-sewn, then casually mentions that a hand-sewn buttonhole implies an "at least half-canvassed" jacket. This is like claiming that a car with a hand-felled radio antenna probably has a leather interior.

http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?113285-Jovan-s-issues-with-rise
"Jovan's issue with rise." In this thread the Great Twizz demonstrates that he has no issues with rise by getting a boner when a friend's grandmother tells him that he looks nice.

http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?113264-My-wedding-tuxedo-please-critique
The Andyland Black Tie Brigade goes on red alert when a groom from Missouri posts a sub-par evening wear plan.

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