Eton collar

A dark suit with Eton collar for the classroom.

He was now in dark blue with an Eton collar and he looked younger than ever!

They may be right in either reaction, but no more right because 1 wore an Eton collar.

Inger Jensen in an Eton collar being her adorable self.

At 11, he attended his first boarding school, dressed in the stiff Eton collar which he came to hate.

We all wished to be invisible in our uniformity; a mere pattern of Eton collars and coats.

In those days, if you were a boy you had to wear a stiff Eton collar every day, and schools were usually nastier than now.

They had Eton collars!

For special occasions, they wore Norfolk suits with broad Eton collars, and the same caps as their elders.

He dried it on his sleeve and said, 'I've a snapshot at home of myself aged ten wearing an Eton collar.

The question is not whether boys are still buckled into Eton collars on Sunday, or told that babies are dug up under gooseberry bushes.

Eton collars were worn until the 1920s together with a blue cap surmounted by the arms of St Edmund or a bowler hat.

Now I am choking and sweating, itching too, in thick dark stuff, throttled by an Eton collar, my feet already aching with unaccustomed boots.

North Stainmore school, Hannah's father in Eton collar, back row, behind the long-haired girl in white dress.

Uniforms in 1891 consisted of a dark blue jersey with sleeves, a porkpie cap and an Eton collar worn on Sundays and special occasions.

Later, Tibbetts makes his way to Kombooli High, where his students wear Eton collars alongside their native garb.

Richie appears to be around seven to ten years old and wears a waistcoat, a white shirt with an Eton collar (which is obscured by a giant red bow tie), and blue shorts.

I am well aware that some will feel disgust and some will laugh, at the idea of a loutish, well-fed boy in an Eton collar, passing an unfavourable judgement on the cosmos.

"He showed up with an English twang to him" - Mr. Taylor's father is English - "an Eton collar and with a slight reserve, and he played one of those Messiaen works.

Top hats and "Eton collars" were abandoned in favour of a more comfortable and practical uniform and English, French and German were taught in place of Classics (Latin and Greek).

The grinning skull finally peered through all disguises; the last hour, held at bay by every device our will and imaginations knew, came in the end, and once more it was the bowler-hat, the Eton collar, the knickerbockers, and (clop-clop-clop-clop) the evening drive to the quay.

From 1820 until 1967, boys under the height of 5'4" were required to wear the 'Eton suit', which replaced the tailcoat with the cropped 'Eton jacket' (known colloquially as a "bum-freezer") and included an 'Eton collar', a large, stiff-starched, white collar.

He brushed his new suit where it had been messed up on the girders, put on a clean white shirt with an Eton collar, put a new baseball cap on the back of his head and then packed a shoulder-strap satchel which looked, for all the world, like one of these kiddy schoolbook bags.