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Our Peter Pan collar matches the styles we like the most, retro, boho, preppy and classic. See them here on our wonderful models.

Réjeanne is the epitome of boho chic. This style reflects creativity and freedom. In terms of clothing, this translates into a mix of styles, materials and accessories. This usually gives a natural and organic effect. Réjeanne wears her white shirt with fringes and embroidery and has combined it with her beige leather jacket and aged denim shorts. She has combined a mix of artistic and creative elements to create a very personal boho chic look. By adding the Peter Pan black collar with grey details, she adds a unique retro touch, which blends beautifully with the pearl necklace, for a chic, good-looking, classic and elegant BCBG note. With her leopard print dress and black scarf, she re-invigorates the preppy style, a little wild, always in very good taste. Wearing our pretty black Peter Pan collar with grey details on these two outfits whose styles are completely different, she shows that this little piece of clothing personalizes any outfit in an original way.

Marie looks very retro with her small cut to the waist fitted dress, very tailor fit, in the style of the 1950s. To achieve this perfect look, the little dress falls just above or below the knee. This 1950s look is very trendy this summer. With the little gray Peter Pan collar, it is a natural marriage that emphasizes femininity. A vintage look, without extravagance.

Kamylle is the epitome of preppy style. A neat and very modern look, a creative but classic combination of clothing that plays between femininity and masculinity. The preppy style is classic, but young, lively and reinvents itself according to each person’s personality. Kamylle has arranged her tight fit skirt, her net top and to complete her outfit, she wears her espadrilles. With our Peter Pan collar, she has reinvented a unique, sophisticated ans young preppy style.

We owe the word “preppy” to the most influential universities on the East Coast of North America. Since the 1920s, students from the highest social classes have been undergoing intensive training to enter the best schools in the United States. The name of this training is the “preparatory courses”. It was on the benches of these ultra-select preparatory classes that students reinvented their parents’ old uniforms. These schools are steeped in the world of the English “upper-class” tradition. The atmosphere is therefore very codified (uniforms, coats of arms, colors …). Ambassadors of the preppy? Ralph Lauren or Tommy Hilfiger, who never miss an opportunity to display them on their podiums.

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The little Peter Pan collar according to Lin + Quotidien

The small removable Peter Pan collar signed Lin + Quotidien is inspired by a Simplicity pattern from the 1950s. I completely redesigned it by modifying the curve of the neck so that it rises less high as well as the roundness of the collar to update the look. Made of pure linen with its raw edges and a big retro style fur coat hook to close it on the front or back, it’s a 100% original creation. To achieve this result, I made a lot of drawings and I sewed as many collars as I made drawings. In this process, several ideas emerged and they will be realized in the coming months.

For the raw edges, the idea came out of a failed production that, without this alternative, would simply have been shelved. The only thing to do was to cut the odious edges that had not been notched and think of a way to finish them differently. So it was a nice zigzag surrounded on both sides by a straight seam that gave the tone and originality to this new Peter Pan collar in addition to ensuring its solidity. Of course, the edges will continue to fray gently, but without going further than the zigzag. It will become more and more beautiful as it is worn, like all clothes made of quality linen, and more and more stylish.

The Peter Pan collar, a story of stars

The Peter Pan collar  has an extraordinary history, as does its alter ego, le col Claudine for French-speaking people. It was in 1900 that this collar, which already existed before, was given the name of col Claudine in French. Colette, a French litterature author, is at the origin of this name. She wore this wise little collar on the cover of her book published in 1900, Claudine à l’école. For its launch, the writer embodies her main character and is photographed with this pretty collar on the schoolgirl’s uniform she described. Since then, this type of collar, more or less large, with rounded or simply straight egdes, has been called col Claudine.

The name Peter Pan collar comes from the collar worn by actress Maude Adams in her 1905 performance of Peter Pan. The Peter Pan collar was a great success in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Then, in the 1950s, the Peter Pan collar came back into the limelight with actress Audrey Hepburn, who made it a legend in her red shirt. The collar becomes emancipated and from wise and model, it is bursting with red. And, again, with the sixties we dare to match it with the mini-skirt.  It is this very rock’n chic version that Twiggy, one of the most famous models of this decade, originating from the United Kingdom, will wear.

Designers from all over the world are reappropriating it, revisiting it and offering it in various versions for the greatest pleasure of all. Carla Bruni, Lady Gaga, Alexa Chung and many others are wearing it and gives it their special colour.  Here at Lin + Quotidien, we are no exception, we love this little collar and we’re not done with it yet!