How to Style a Collar Clip - Tips for Men's Collar Clips, Bars, & Pins

About this video

The Gentleman’s Gazette team provides a comprehensive guide to collar clips, explaining how they differ from collar bars and collar pins, their history dating back to 1921, and the key considerations for wearing them stylishly. The team covers selection criteria including metal color and size, appropriate shirt collar styles, outfit formality, and demonstrates several sample outfits ranging from business formal to casual.

Key takeaways

• The Gazette team distinguishes three types of collar jewelry: collar pins (piercing, most formal but risk collar damage), collar bars (most formal but require specialty shirt holes), and collar clips (most versatile, using tension to grip collar points)
• The Gazette team advises that collar clips work best with point collars or spear collars and should never be worn with button-down collars, tab collars, bow ties, or extreme spread collars—though they now offer longer versions for standard spread collars
• The Gazette team recommends pairing collar clips with thin-interlining or unlined ties in smaller knots like the four-in-hand, positioning the clip under the knot to accentuate it, and matching the metal finish to other accessories in the outfit
• The Gazette team emphasizes that collar clips are relatively formal accessories requiring neckwear and work well across smart casual to formal contexts, including interesting combinations with cardigans and sweaters for a more relaxed appearance

Episode details: published July 31, 2020 · 48K views · 16:37 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. The style guidance summarized here is the Gentleman’s Gazette team’s own teaching and opinion, presented for education; product recommendations are theirs, not ours. Summaries are written by Self Growth Videos from each video itself.

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