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[Hobot]

The trends when I was in college seem almost quaint. The main non-sensical item was taking brand new baseball caps and dragging the brim across the sidewalk to fray it, then throwing it in the mud before wearing. The hat was then worn with dress shirts, blue and orange ties, and khakis.

So you went to UVa?

[KeithHernandez]

So you went to UVa?

Or Florida?

[pmcd9]

I have no idea what a popped collar is.  What does this mean?

~Paul

[jough]

Yeah, what the hell is a popped collar?

[oball]

Wearing a collar folded up (so it covers the neck) instead of normally.  Like what you do with a coat if it's really cold and you don't have a scarf.

[jough]

And... people would do this, without being mocked?  And wear more than one shirt with more than one collar?

[FlipConstantine]

I've never seen the more than one shirt popped at once.  That sounds pretty heinous.  These people need to be controlled.

Something like this seems appropriate...

[KeithHernandez]

And... people would do this, without being mocked?  And wear more than one shirt with more than one collar?

The stereotype of frat guys is to wear pink polo shirts with popped collars.  The double popped collar is around, but it is probably for like the stoner/ frat clown.  I don't know, I don't really talk to people with popped collars, and especially two of them.

[V-Adore]

I don't get the pink polo shirts, either. Leaving "gender-appropriateness" alone for a moment -- when did pink become trendy again? It looks bad on more or less everyone, especially in polo shirt form. Can anyone explain this to me?

[AugustWest]

Man, that shit was stupid and annoying in the 80's.  You're telling me that assholes are still doing it?   Man.

[KeithHernandez]

Man, you cats haven't been to any college town bars lately, have you?

[robot_god]

I think the idea of a dude wearing pink is to be daring.  It's supposed to say, I'm so confident in my masculinity that I can wear pink and still be masculine.  The trend possibly started by the rapper Cam'Ron.

Over here, you probably won't find frat kids wearing any kind of shirt with a collar, unless at a club or upscale bar, but that is a different story, 'cause those places have dress codes.  The only heads wearing this "popped" collar would probably be straight-up G's.  I'm not saying G's sarcastically, I'm talking about G's on the real.  I would probably see alot of this in the city, but I don't spend that much time in the city.

[CortJstr]

So you went to UVa?

Indeed. Hence my trip back to C-ville last weekend for the Shakespeare on the Lawn reunion.

[Drastic Action]

What are G's?

[acoxcae]

What are G's?

In the parlance of our times, "G" has become synonymous with "gangster," in the urban sense.  Additionally, "O.G." means "original gangster," used to reference a person who has been a G since small times.

See also: Rap stars