What does HI-COL stand for?

High collars are preferable for men with long necks, while men with short necks should wear shirts with low collars.

On their way to lunch, Yvonne, 35, wore a fitted royal blue dress with a high collar and a cheeky slit down the front, and a short, cappedsleeved black jacket.

She has vowed to be back on TV for the Derby at Epsom on 6 June, wearing a jacket with a high collar to cover her neck.

Ruffles and high collars give the style a feel of Victoriana, while other cuts are right up-todate with maxi dresses, tailored jackets and layered frocks in rich black fabrics and monochrome prints.

50; high collar top, pounds 21; Lucia trousers, pounds 45; Parka jacket, pounds 85; Lace collar jacket, pounds 69.

The white outfit with a plunging V-neck and high collar features a blue-and-gold peacock design hand-embroidered on the front and back and along the pant legs.

The austere dresses with long-sleeves and high collars, loose-fitting pants, long-johns and modest blouses worn by members of the sect are reminiscent of 19th century American pioneers and highlighted the sect's isolation.

As Antonia Finnane points out in her overview of the clothes of the past century in China, and Valery Garrett shows in her clever and generously illustrated outline running all the way back to 1644, that suit was a genius compromise: its balance of length of jacket over trousers referred to Han Chinese working gear for both sexes across regions and epochs, while the built-in high collar ascended as a marker of modernity after the 1911 revolution (before that it had been an elite add-on).