Pie-crust, Peter Pan or puritanical… Statement collars can elevate the ordinary into something very special The Tudors were on to something.
Obviously not with the beheading or using lead as foundation, but with the ruffs. Weren’t they magnificent? So spectacularly lacy and dripping with pearls and rubies that you’d honestly never notice the smallpox scars.
Five hundred years on and everything and nothing has changed. Especially when it comes to matters of facial framing. Just as Elizabeth I needed those ruffs to project power, nowadays, the statement neckline is also used to project majesty – it’s all about the oomph a collar adds to a selfie.
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