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This type of collar is called a double breasted notched shawl collar. That's a tongue twister
and a half. Now the double breasted part of the term comes from the fact that it's, one
half of the jacket is folding over on the other half of the jacket in order to close
it. So there's double, one part of it, two, there's my five again, two parts of it. Now
the notched part of it, is as I've said a zillion times, where the notch comes in. The
shawl part of it comes from the curvature of the actual lapel, the fact that it has
a curve and the fact that this part of the lapel is going to curve too. So if this were
to continue, if this were just going to be a regular shawl collar it would, it would
go all the way up like this and curve. But since it's a notched collar, we have to take
out a notch, therefore you have to label it double breasted notched shawl.