During the final season of Deep Space Nine and the fifth season of Voyager, there began a trend of clipping the "hero collar" seam allowances to ⅛" or so on the latter show.
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| DS9, 7x25 "What You Leave Behind" |
This was done almost entirely independently of Deep Space Nine, however; the hero collars on that show remained the (previously) standard ⅜", with the exception of Bashir's collar in Deep Space Nine's finale:
This does make a certain amount sense considering that Deep Space Nine's seventh season and Voyager's fifth season aired more or less simultaneously, and the trend to clip the VOY undershirt collar/collar facing seam allowances to ⅛" would have begun that production year (late 1998).
Even though the uniforms and construction/aesthetic standards were different on the two shows, it's natural to infer a certain amount of back-and-forth and overlap regarding trends and other new costume directions; previous examples included the Sisko's DS9/NEM "captain ensemble" and Janeway's VOY commando-style (pants + tank top) uniforms being introduced in their respective shows almost immediately after TNG's First Contact was released (during which Picard exhibited the various layers of the new Starfleet uniforms), as well as the trend of the VOY jumpsuit sciences yoke transitioning from the TNG-ish teal to the DS9/NEM-ish green despite being an independent element on the other side of the galaxy and its crew still wearing the older uniforms.
We like the ⅜" hero collar much better and consider it the DS9/NEM standard since it was consistently practiced for so long, but we thought the VOY-style ⅛" experiment on Bashir was an oddity worth mentioning.
The weirdness of both the "Bashir experiment" and Voyager's ⅛" hero collar trend (which continued for two more years after Deep Space Nine concluded) was that in Nemesis, not only was Data the only main character with a hero collar (with the possible occasional exception of Worf, who may have been wearing one of his older DS9 division shirts), but his hero collar had the (previous) standard ⅜" seam allowance!
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| Nemesis |
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| Nemesis |
In other words, the ⅛" clipped seam allowance became the standard in late Voyager, made an appearance during the final episode of Deep Space Nine, continued for 2 years on Voyager, and then was either forgotten or dismissed as the standard in the final production using these uniforms in their arguably idealized, final versions.
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