Gladstone collar

English thumb|William Gladstone wearing his eponymous collar Etymology Popularized by the British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. Noun A standing collar with the points pressed to stick out horizontally at the side-fronts, worn with a scarf or ascot tie. The Queer Feet 80 Mr. Audley, the chairman, was an amiable, elderly man who still wore Gladstone collars; he was a kind of symbol of all that phantasmal and yet fixed society. en 1918 w:Sinclair Lewis The Willow Walk Jasper scrambled to unlock the bottom drawer of the bureau, yank it open, take out a wrinkled shiny suit of black, a pair of black shoes, a small black bow tie, a Gladstone collar, a white shirt with starched bosom, en eponyms en Clothing