Gladstone collar

English

William Gladstone wearing his eponymous collar

Etymology

Popularized by the British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.

Noun

Gladstone collar (plural Gladstone collars)

1. A standing collar with the points pressed to stick out horizontally at the side-fronts, worn with a scarf or ascot tie.
   • 1910 October 1, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, “The Queer Feet”, in The Innocence of Father Brown, London, New York, N.Y.: Cassell and Company, published 1911, →OCLC, page 80:

     Mr. Audley, the chairman, was an amiable, elderly man who still wore Gladstone collars; he was a kind of symbol of all that phantasmal and yet fixed society.

   • 1918, Sinclair Lewis, The Willow Walk:

     Jasper scrambled to unlock the bottom drawer of the bureau, yank it open, take out a wrinkled shiny suit of black, a pair of black shoes, a small black bow tie, a Gladstone collar, a white shirt with starched bosom, […]