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A dog collar is a piece of material put around the neck of a dog. A collar may be used for restraint, identification, fashion, protection, or training (although some aversive training collars are illegal in many countries [1] [2]). Identification tags and medical information are often placed on dog collars. [3]
Italian Army gorget patches (Italian: Mostreggiature or Italian: Mostrine) are worn by all army personnel on the collars of the shirts and jackets of their service uniforms and formal uniforms. The gorget patches identify the arm (Infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineer, signals, transport and material), corps (Health, commissariat, engineers ...
A typical shock collar. Shock collar used on a riot police dog in 2004 in Würzburg.Two years later, [1] Germany banned the use of shock collars, even by police. [2]A shock collar or remote training collar, also known as an e-collar, Ecollar, or electronic collar, is a type of training collar that delivers shocks to the neck of a dog [3] to change behavior.
The traditional full collar (the style informally described as a dog collar) is a ring that closes at the back of the neck, presenting a seamless front. It is often attached with a collaret or collarino that covers the white collar almost completely, except for a small white rectangle at the base of the throat, and sometimes with the top edge ...
Gray collar – Refers to labor which blurs the line between blue- and white-collar work. Gray collar work requires both physical and intellectual labour, and may require specialized training or college degrees. Commonly given examples of gray collar workers are first responders, electricians, nurses, technicians, conservationists, and pilots ...
Two Muscadins, or Incroyables, in 1795, carrying their "constitutions" The Jacobin Jacques-Louis David; self-portrait in jail in 1794. The term Muscadin (French:), meaning "wearing musk perfume", came to refer to mobs of young men, relatively well-off and dressed in a dandyish manner, who were the street fighters of the Thermidorian Reaction in Paris in the French Revolution (1789-1799).
A collar pin (closely related to the collar bar and collar clip) is a piece of men's jewelry, which holds the two ends of a dress shirt collar together and passes underneath the knot of a necktie. Functioning in a similar way as a tabbed collar , it keeps the collar in place and lifts the knot to provide a more aesthetically pleasing arc to the ...
Circa 1817, First Lieutenant Charles Rumsey Broom, USMC, sports a black leather stock beneath a high collar, which gave birth to the term "leatherneck" Leatherneck is a military slang term in the U.S. for a member of the United States Marine Corps. It is generally believed to originate in the wearing of a "leather stock" that went around the neck.