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Summary: Cleric collars in fashion resemble collars of the iconic poker dealers of yesteryear. Learn to draw small cleric collars from a fashion designer in this free fashion illustration video.
Laurel Armstrong is in graduate school for fashion design and is knowledgeable about everything fashion: design, sketching, pattern drafting, draping, sewing construction, etc. Laurel...read more
"Here we have what's known as the cleric opening, cleric collar. Not a clerk, cleric. This is going to be a shorter standing collar, and it's going to have, it's going to fold over, but it's going to fold over, and it has curved, soft lines, as opposed to harsh lines. Think about like the, I'm trying to think, the poker dealer type shirt. That's kind of what this is. It's going to also have, as I've indicated here, the stitching, on it. That's going to be another physical aspect, and it's going to be more rounded, than a regular collar. A regular collar would have more diagonal lines, as opposed to this little, shorter, rounded version. It's like a Mandarin kind of, it's kind of like a Mandarin collar, only pulled down and out."