A fad reborn?

[HeinekenMan]

Lord knows these things run in cycles. I'm seeing guys with their collars flipped up. I saw a guy at least 45 with a collar flipped up, but most were in their teens and early 20s. I pay absolutely no attention to clothing trends. Are the flipped up collars hip again? If so, I might cry. I didn't realize I was old enough to have the fashion trends of my youth repeated. For the record, I probably only flipped up my collar a few times back in the day.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

PROTIP: If it looks retarded, it's a trend.

 

[Clever username]

Yeah, I've seen it quite a bit among college-age dudes. My friends and I affectionately refer to those people as douchebags and handjobs. ****in' collar-poppers.

 

[zeke12]

There's a great T-shirt floating around out there that says "My other shirt has its collar up."

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

It's considered preppy. But most true preppies, the kind who actually attended a traditional prep school and are the offspring of prep school alumni, strive for a look that says, "I spent not a moment considering what I'm wearing or how I'm wearing it, I am following the dress code by the most minimal letter of the law and not the spirit of the law, and I would not debase myself by following the herd and popping my collar or doing anything else trendy like wearing a shirt with a logo on it, especially a ****ing polo horse."

 

[CollegeJournalist]

There's a great T-shirt floating around out there that says "My other shirt has its collar up."

http://www.chrisabraham.com/collarUp.jpg

 

[Oz]

I blame Pharrell and Kanye West for this.

 

[KP]

You guys are just noticing this now? Sadly, it's been a fad in these parts for wayyyyy too long.

 

[Beef03]

Personally I can't wait for this kind of a collar to come into style. The jacket not so much.

 

[zeke12]

You guys are just noticing this now? Sadly, it's been a fad in these parts for wayyyyy too long.

We're a slow lot.

My buddies only do it when really smashed, in an ironic way. They also unbutton their shirts three-quarters of the way down.

 

[Buck]

I think I grew out of the collar-up phase in 1982.
I was 12.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

The same dickslaps that are doing this are also the ones in the untucked, button-down striiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiped shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirts, with the spiked hair and slamming Jager bombs like it's their job. In short, they're these douchefaces. Nothing wrong with these guys that a good Budwesier bottle upside the temple won't solve.

 

[Chi City 81]

Is that cradlerobber on the right?

 

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

I live in a big-time golf area surrounded with seemingly endless supplies of college-aged kids who think they're going to be on the PGA tour someday.
The popped collar doesn't even set off my douchebaggerydar any more.

 

[Eddie_Vedder]

Yeah, I've seen it quite a bit among college-age dudes. My friends and I affectionately refer to those people as douchebags and handjobs. ****in' collar-poppers.

Well, I'm in college, so speaking for that demographic.... Yes, it's back, it's hip again. On frat boys, tools, douchebags, etc. Personally, I'd set myself on fire before looking like "one of those guys."

 

[Wonderlic]

My girlfriend has actually walked up to these douchebags at the bar and flipped their collars back down. God it's hilarious. Especially when they pop them back up, Fonzie style, making sure to point their forefingers to the sky with the follow through.

 

[HeinekenMan]

Well, I saw this on the golf course at a tournament on Sunday. So that would be a certain demographic. I recall a group of three that featured one guy in plaid shorts and a broad-striped shirt. He looked ridiculous in the same way fathers do when they hop out of their sportscar and walk into the grocery store wearing shorts and pulled-up blue dress socks. Or maybe that was just my father.

 

[EE94]

in fairness, a collar turned up on the golf course can often be a remedy for sunburn on the back of the neck.

but that picture of those clones (imagine this word with lines on it, like others can do) clowns is hilarious

 

[Flying Headbutt]

Please, jagerbombs are a source of goodness. Do not associate it with such idiocy. Jagerbombs aren't a drink of geeks, geeks just like jagerbombs like the rest of us.

 

[wickedwritah]

You guys are just noticing this now? Sadly, it's been a fad in these parts for wayyyyy too long.

At least since 2003 in Big State U Land.

Now that I live closer to civilization, I've seen much less of it. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough.

(And am I the only one who thought "it's Spandex!" when they first saw the title?)