Turning a collar

What I did:

Before

The collar of my husband's shirt was worn.

button down dress shirt in small white/blue plaid, front view of just the collar, showing worn fabric at the fold of the collar

Before: front view with worn fabric where the collar folds down

back view of collar of white/blue plaid shirt showing worn fabric at the collar fold

Before: back view of the collar, worn at the fold

closeup of worn fabric in collar of shirt, inside/front view

Before: closeup of the worn collar, from the front/inside

closeup of worn fabric in collar of shirt, back view

Before: closeup of worn collar, back/outside view

After

I turned the collar: now the worn part of the collar is not visible when the shirt is right side out with the collar folded and buttoned down.

button down dress shirt in small white/blue plaid with no visible wear on the collar

After: viewed from the front, the worn fabric is now hidden under the fold of the collar.

back view of collar of shirt, folded down, with no visible wear

After: neither is there any worn fabric visible from the back when the shirt is worn (as it usually is) with the collar folded down.

outside of shirt with collar folded up so that you can see the worn fabric that is normally hidden when collar is down

After: the magic of this type of "mend" is that it isn't really mending at all. As you can see when the collar is popped up, as it is in this picture, the collar is still worn. I didn't change that. All I did was to flip the collar around so that (when the it is folded and buttoned down, as it normally is) the worn part is invisible.

inside view of collar, popped up, with the un-worn side showing: when the collar is popped down, that un-worn side will show on the outside

After: here's an inside view, with collar popped up. You can see that the unworn part of the collar is on the inside. That doesn't make sense until you realize that when someone is wearing the shirt, the collar will be folded and buttoned down so that the inside of the collar is what is actually visible on the outside of the shirt.