Or when you wish you could have the fabric, collar, pockets and lining you've always wanted — not what some fashion buyer has chosen for this season?
At the corner of Bryant Avenue and North Monroe Street, in a quiet blue-collar pocket of West Baltimore, skirmishes ebbed and flowed.
Now he's a walking period piece, in three-piece suits, club collars, pocket watch stowed primly in his waistcoat pocket, hair slicked into a swooping wave.
Many hotel rooms include irons and ironing boards, and you can press the whole garment or just touch up cuffs, collars, pockets, etc. that didn't dry completely.
You can then select the fabric and different styles for the collar, cuff, pocket, vent, buttons and even an optional golf tee pocket.
Once you start paying attention to details of collar shape, pocket square selection, and all the other little details of dressing well, you start to notice them on other men.
Sandra Bullock's opulent navy Alexander McQueen, with a cascading waterfall of fabric that changed course across her body, was another entry in the timelessness genre; as was Amy Adams's Gucci gown (she was much-applauded for picking it out and dressing herself), with its demure folds gesturing at a collar and pockets.
I took my inspiration for the shape of the shoulders on my suits from the pagoda, whereas others just copied the details of the Mao jacket: the collar, the pockets, and so forth.
The collar and pockets are top-stitched.
Blouses: Small clerical collars, front pockets, full sleeves.
