# Do you like turtlenecks?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 13, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982 "2003-11-13T05:56:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982/1 "2003-11-13T05:56:24Z")
Not those wrinkly necks on turtles, but the sweaters with the cloth in the neck area that goes up high, often folding over. I think they look better on some people than on others. I like soft silk ones, nothing tight around my neck.
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### Author:  [@Nvme77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nvme77)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982/2 "2003-11-13T06:17:19Z")
I have no neck. I think turtlenecks are restrictive and attempting to kill me.
But then I feel the same way about my children. đ
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### Author:  [@SunTzu2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunTzu2U)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982/3 "2003-11-13T06:19:44Z")
I wear them when I snow ski. Great for keeping drafty winds and snow from going down the back of your neck.
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### Author:  [@applejamie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/applejamie)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982/4 "2003-11-13T06:22:46Z")
Love them. Big chest here so it hides the ladies well.
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### Author:  [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982/5 "2003-11-13T06:26:29Z")
Very nice, but far too warm here to be of any use.
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### Author:  [@cankerist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cankerist)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982/6 "2003-11-13T06:33:25Z")
Feels like youâre being strangled by a really weak guy â all day long.
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### Author:  [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982/7 "2003-11-13T07:11:50Z")
I like them, as long as theyâre not too tight. I have a sweater my sister bought me at Express last winter, and it has this huge floppy neck that covers my face up to my eyes if I donât fold it over - itâs perfect.
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### Author:  [@Shana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shana)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982/8 "2003-11-13T07:24:47Z")
I love them as long as theyâre fitted and not too scratchy on my neck.
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### Author:  [@Ripley2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ripley2004)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982/9 "2003-11-13T07:26:23Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by cankerist \*
> \*\*Feels like youâre being strangled by a really weak guy â all day long. \*\*
Iâll second this, and add that indoors it is too darn hot to wear them!
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### Author:  [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982/10 "2003-11-13T08:03:47Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by cankerist \*
> \*\*Feels like youâre being strangled by a really weak guy â all day long. \*\*
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I second that! Thatâs frigginâ _hilarious_!!!
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### Author:  [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982/11 "2003-11-13T14:52:33Z")
cankerist funny!!!
I, however, love them. The turtleneck season is just starting and I will be living in them for the next 3 months (great white north). In fact, I am wearing one for the first time this season. I prefer the strangling feeling over the floppy gaping neck that lets wind whistle down your back. If the neck isnât tight, then whatâs the point?
I think women look wonderful in them as well. Man, when Sinead came out with âNothing Compares 2 Uâ and was wearing one, I couldnât get enough of that image (until the song became overplayed and really grating).
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### Author:  [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982/12 "2003-11-13T14:54:55Z")
I love the strangled-by-a-weak-guy ones, but I hate the gigantic 1970s Loni Anderson style cowl necks. Not only do they bug me, but they bug everyone else I know. Especially lately, any time I unfold a sweater at a store it has this dumb miniskirt attached to the neck.
I like a regular black turtleneck with jeans though and Iâve always worn that a lot in winter. My brother informs me that it makes me look more like a longshoreman than a sophisticate but screw him anyway.
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### Author:  [@Girlbysea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlbysea)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982/13 "2003-11-13T14:55:03Z")
Hate them!!!
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### Author:  [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982/14 "2003-11-13T14:57:28Z")
Iâm wearing one today, in fact, with a min-skirt and knee-high boots. I like the sexy secretary look. đ
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### Author:  [@Cat\_scratch\_fever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_scratch_fever)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982/15 "2003-11-13T15:05:43Z")
Depends on the legnth of your neck.
I think women pull them off better then men, especially bald men.
My boss (who is bald) wore a big red one last winter all the time. When he gets mad, veins on his head pop out, this making him look like a giant \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
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### Author:  [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982/16 "2003-11-13T15:15:43Z")
I like them for me. I donât like them on men.
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### Author:  [@Angel\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_Heart)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982/17 "2003-11-13T15:15:48Z")
Love them, if theyâre cotton/poly. Wool is too itchy. Great on their own or as a layering piece.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_scratch\_fever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_scratch_fever)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982/18 "2003-11-13T15:19:31Z")
Turtlenecks ok,
Dickies bad.
My aunt bought each of us a 10 pack of dickies for christmas one year. I handed them out to friends as a joke.
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### Author:  [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982/19 "2003-11-13T15:25:45Z")
Jenny, how YOU doinâ?
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### Author:  [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-turtlenecks/212982/20 "2003-11-13T15:35:59Z")
Doinâ just fine, cantara, how YOU doinâ?
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