did you know this silly thing is called an Elizabethan collar? they are named after the ruffs men, women, and children would wear around their necks back in the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan_collar
well let me tell you, they were NOT classy then and they are NOT classy now!
can you believe my parents have made me wear this for the past 4 weeks?!