This image is a front view of my variation on the class exercise (notched collar & lapel). The first thing I did was play with the proportions of the collar and lapel, lengthening the collar to the waist and making the lapel quite short and wide. Then I decided to slash and open the collar along the outer edge and add in small knife pleats too add another dimension. This was to see what kind of effect the pleats would have on the way the collar sits. With the actual collar I was happy with the result of the pleats as I think they make it sit up in an interesting way. However, I was a bit disappointed in the shorter lapel as I couldn't get it to sit quite right, it just kept poking out in a funny way. Even though it didn't quite work, I'm glad that I tried changing it completely so that I could learn if it would work or not.
So what you've done with this collar is add volime to it and used tucks to supress that volume back to the dimensions of the under collar. This is an intersting one and you may look at other ways of supressing volume. Intersting reflection on the diminished size of the lapel, maybe this would work nicely with a shawl collar where there is no need for a seperate collar and lapel. Can you try to make the pictures a bit bigger? The same width of the text. I do this using the Firefox browser in my blogspot. I scale the pictures up so they measure 400(whatever the units are) across. This doesn't work when using internet explorer. MP
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