Sentence examples for collars tight from inspiring English sources

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Everything had the trussed look of torturous chic, with blown-up collars, tight waists and skirts spreading stiffly in peplum ripples.

Girls clatter down Old Compton Street, pulling their collars tight.

A group of girls clatter down Old Compton Street, pulling their collars tight.

Let the sleeve rotate by not making the inside collars tight against the sleeve.

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The construction worker arrived at West Street, maybe on Day 4, wearing canvas overalls and a sweatshirt with a collar tight on his muscular neck.

In his dancing days, many sartorial encumberances had been cleared away, his suit was cylindrical, his collar tight, he was sensibly dressed, for the slow whirl and the gentle bounce.

Other collar types include pin collars (which feature holes on each side of the collar to accommodate a collar pin), tab collars (with small cloth tabs that button together, holding the collar tight around the tie), and banded collars (a less formal narrow collar that does not fold down, normally worn without a necktie).

Kane's collection of black leather and lace overstitched with meadow flowers and crystal starbursts, balanced androgynous touches (schoolboy-style shirt collars) with tight tailoring and lashings of bare thigh.

His eyes are tired, his collar too tight, his necktie a noose.

As always, on this day he was wearing a striped, monogrammed shirt, his collar clipped tight by a gold clasp.

These might include, say, red leather trousers, bow ties, Lycra, bomber jackets, leopard-print, cartoon sailor collars, white tights, military frogging, deckchair stripes, blazers, bikinis, giant checks and more of the massive, clownishly shouldered jackets that Diana would accessorise – often to 1980s acclaim – with panto tricorns, pillboxes the size of cake tins.

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