Buster Brown collar

noun

1. a medium-sized, starched collar with rounded edges, lying flat on the shoulders, worn by women and girls.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Buster Brown collar¹

After Buster Brown, a comic-strip boy drawn by Richard F. Outcault (1863–1928), U.S. cartoonist

Example Sentences

Mother Cooper disagreed with her husband's ideas about private education, and one day, when Judge Cooper was off in Texas checking some oil properties, she sent John Sherman, neatly dressed in Buster Brown collar and knickerbockers and carrying an umbrella, off to the sixth grade at the public school.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dressed in blue knee pants and jacket, a Buster Brown collar and a big red tie, Garner prances blithely across the stage, wagging his head, whistling his sibilants, letting his tongue loll inanely between parted lips.

From Time Magazine Archive

Out into the road, in sailor hat, buster brown collar, short trousers and socks, came a fattish cherub waving his report card at an old gentleman labelled G. 0.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was a pink blouse, a red tie and a Buster Brown collar.

From Project Gutenberg

This was a pink blouse, a red tie, and a Buster Brown collar.

From Project Gutenberg