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Monday, April 22, 2013

FALSE COLLARS – A FASHION TREND IN CHINA AGAIN


False collars, also called as detachable collar, it is a shirt separate from the shirt, fastened to it by studs, belts, or clasps…
 
False collar was very popular during 1970s inChina, at that time, most of the people are very poor, further more, people required tickets when purchased something. For example, if you want to buy a clothing, you have to get enough money, and need to get the ticket for fabric, weave ticket and so on. There fore, people would not buy garments unless festivals. Shirts is one of the top garment, once you wear it, you will become much gentle. However, to buy a shirt at that time was very expensive and required fabric tickets. So, people developed the false collars by shred, because shred did not require tickets. People wore a false collar inside, and then wore a Zhongshan suit outside, it seems like that wore a shirt inside. It is said that the false collars was developed by Shanghai people. False collars became popular in China very soon, because it was very economic, and it looked same as a shirt inside, besides, false collars was easy to wash because it was just a small piece cloth. At that time, false collar was a fashion for gentlemen.
 
With the economic development, false collars not wore by people in past decades years. However, false collars are getting popular again since 2012 year. Now, false collar is not only for men, but also a decoration of garments for women. Many ladies wear false collars to decorative with their dress/ shirt which without collar. Now, Chinese handmade false collars factory have designed many fashion designs false collars. There are not only simple fabric material as before, but also lace false collars, rhinestone false collars, pearl false collars, resin false collars… Besides, many fashion designs offalse collars are offered in China now.