1.   The dark blue collar and shoulder straps are lined with scarlet cloth and edged with white lace.

2.   The report showed that blue collar workers lost ten days a year due to ill health, compared with five days for white collar workers.

3.   They needed to put a little blue collar -- Carolina blue, if you will -- into all that pompous purple.

4.   They were blue collar in occupation, and they were haters.

5.   Though most managers recognised the remarkable achievements of the machinists, the programmers were unhappy that blue collar workers remained in control.

6.   Already, the department has halved its civilian clerical positions and cut blue collar slots by a third.

7.   And that unyielding nature and honest grit made him endearing to blue collar dreamers fighting the bosses and bureaucracy of life.

8.   And yet the Spartans from Flint wear their roots proudly, on their sleeveless arms and strong shoulders but mostly on their blue collars.

9.   As blue collar as they come.

10.   As Hollywood white collar and Shreveport blue collar eye each other with polite words barely disguising mutual horror, the story teeters constantly on the brink of the ridiculous.