The fake collar is not fake. It is actually a real collar, also known as economic collar and economic collar. It only takes the collar of the shirt, has a front piece and a back piece and buttons, and also retains the upper part of the shirt. Omitting the sleeves and the body, only two cloth belts are used to cover the arms and wear them inside, so they are not real clothes. Before the reform and opening up, due to the lack of material life, people had to buy things by ticket and provide clothing per capita. But with so many tickets a year, underwear is ignored when buying a coat. Until holidays, ordinary people seldom buy new clothes.
"If you are poor, change it." It is said that Shanghainese first made fake collars out of odd pieces of cloth, which did not need to be supplied by ticket, so this ingenious practice quickly became popular in China. Wearing a fake collar, the exposed collar part is exactly the same as a shirt, giving people the feeling that they are wearing a crisp shirt. Wearing a white clean fake collar inside, wearing a green military uniform or a Chinese tunic suit outside, and then deducting the discipline, that was the most standard man dress of that era.