The Hunt: Faux Collars for Layered Work Outfits (aka Dickies)

Positive, everyone knows what wardrobe necessities for work skilled ladies are presupposed to have of their closets, however for those who’re shopping for one for the primary time or changing one you’ve worn into the bottom, it may be a ache to search out precisely the precise incarnation in shops. In “The Hunt,” we search the shops for a fundamental merchandise that each girl ought to have.

In case you’re attempting to look extra polished, one of many basic seems to be is the layered search for sweaters. It looks as if a easy concept in concept — button-front shirt + sweater, BOOM, proper? However then you definately run into issues with static cling and bulk.

One of many basic methods to unravel this drawback is with the standard faux collar, aka the dickie. (Generally additionally spelled dickey!) Every technology appears to find these anew, so I assumed I’d spherical up just a few which can be on the market proper now.

What Are Dickies?

If you’re unfamiliar with dickies, these are what can finest be described as faux collars — they’re greater than a clip-on collar, however not the total shirt. Basically, they’ve a partial shoulder and often some sort of elastic strap “sleeve” to maintain the entire thing anchored to your chest and mendacity neatly.

(As we’re within the age of crop tops, don’t be confused – these are not crop tops. Don’t put on them by themselves. Particularly to not work, however, actually, I’d suggest in opposition to it wherever; a dickie is rarely going to look as cool as an precise backless shirt.)

What Are the Advantages to Sporting Dickies As a substitute of Shirts?

There are literally an a variety of benefits to sporting dickies or faux collars with work outfits. They’re rather a lot much less cumbersome than blouses, for instance, and so they’re far simpler to get issues to put correctly. Since you’re unlikely to be spilling meals on the faux collar or sweating on it (though it relies on the particular dickie), you will get away with dry cleansing them much less.

Value is one other large profit — the whole lot on this Hunt is beneath $100.

In addition they match it doesn’t matter what measurement you might be, typically — and you may even maintain them on the workplace if you wish to immediately make your outfit really feel extra polished.

A Last Be aware on Discovering Dickies for Work Outfits

I’ll be aware that this was fairly a Hunt as a result of, haha, everybody hates the time period dickie. Which, hey, 1000%. However trying to find “collar” on web sites is… lower than useful. (In case you attempt to go this route, be sure to don’t find yourself shopping for an precise canine collar. Sigh.)

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Pictured on house web page however not beneath: this frilly faux collar from Etsy (with matching cuffs!).

Some Nice Faux Collars for Layered Work Outfits

In case you’re on the lookout for a crisp collar, Amazon is without doubt one of the best locations to search out one — there are a ton of sellers with shirts in fundamental white and pastels, in addition to plaid choices, fake jeweled choices, and extra.

(You can even discover fake turtlenecks!)

The pictured one is from vendor Tatuo; you will get a two-pair in both measurement medium or massive for beneath $16.

I’m certain you may be shocked to listen to that Etsy has a ton of nice choices for faux collars, all for actually inexpensive costs.

I’m picturing this lacy one with sleeves simply to indicate that they do generally include sleeves — this one notes within the description that it may very well be worn beneath a costume; I additionally just like the look of the collar matching the cuffs. (Resembling, for instance, this frilly collar with matching cuffs (pictured on our house web page), though it’s a must to hunt a bit to search out the matching cuffs.) (The Etsy vendor right here, bloominglace, appears to concentrate on these sorts of collars — ooh, and he or she has cuffs accessible individually.)

I’m in love with this crisp multi-collar look, this frilly one, and this artsy one, all beneath $20. The pictured one above is $15.99.

They’re not likely promoting this one with the photograph, now, are they? Nonetheless: Anthropologie has just a few “collar bibs,” as they name them, and so they’re all on sale for $30 proper now.

I’m in love with this black and white possibility — though right here she’s sporting it on high of a shirt (?), if it had been tucked in beneath a sweater appropriately it might be actually cool, I feel.

The Victorian-inspired, lacy collar above is from Lele Sadoughi — she has a bunch of cute, ultra-twee collars with lace and pearls and gems, most beneath $100. You’ll find them at shops like Bloomingdale’s, Neiman Marcus, and naturally her personal web site.

Admittedly, the whole lot else within the roundup is a bit buttoned-up and type of girly — so I assumed I’d embody this fascinating cashmere dickey in enjoyable colours from Visitor in Residence. I feel the colours are actually enjoyable, though I feel I is perhaps bothered if the knit of the dickey contrasted with the knit of the sweater I used to be pairing it with. However perhaps that’s simply me.

(In case you, like me, had been unfamiliar with Visitor in Residence: it’s a “direct-to-consumer cashmere model based in New York by Gigi Hadid, who serves as inventive director.”)

The pictured dickie is $95, and likewise is available in a taupe/lime combo.

Readers, do you want fake collars for those who’re going for a layered search for sweaters? The place have you ever discovered nice ones?

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Social media pictures (girl with ponytail sporting plaid blazer, beige sweater and white collar) through 123rf / serezniy.