Planning on flexing your sartorial muscles in the blog arena? You’ll need to come packing. And no, we’re not referring to your pocket square game. Every week on The Eye, we’ll cover a basic term you ...

LITTLE ROCK — Q. When you wrote about button-down collar shirts recently, you referred to “the roll” of the collar. I really don’t get it. Is the roll meant to add flair? I sometimes notice that the ...

“Life is really simple,” said Confucius, “but we insist on making it complicated.” Case in point: men’s shirt collars. About The Star ...

It may be considered the quintessential dress shirt today, but the button-down collar shirt actually traces its history to the sport of polo. As the story goes, in 1896, John Brooks, grandson of ...

Although American businessmen from the heartland and their boys in Congress believe that the button-down is a dress shirt, it is a casual style. This isn’t to say you can’t wear a tie with one (as old ...