I’m out on camp shirts. I wish that weren’t so, but I believe in data—and the data says I haven’t worn a single one in 2025, ...

Right? Wrong. If your dress shirt has some form of spread or point collar — which, if you’re wearing a tie, it almost certainly does — then you’re not wearing a button-down shirt at all.

After I moved back South, I shifted to the modernized "point collar" dress shirt. BUT, these had to be heavily starched, in large part to keep the collars from flapping up.

Point Collar: the most widespread collar style, the straight or forward point collar is cut using straight lines with a somewhat small spread. This is the collar on the classic men’s dress shirt.

The collar is where most men run into problems when buying a shirt. Any reasonable variation of the basic collars -- regular (also called straight or point), button-down and spread (including both ...

Q: I hate button-down collars. They’re too Ivy League and casual for my taste. Spread collars are not high on my list, either. Of course, I’m familiar with the basic point collar shirts… ...

These days at GQ HQ, we swear by the spread collar. Actually, in our guide for nailing office style, it was half-jokingly recommended that you trash all your point-collar shirts and start afresh ...