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Referring to the collar of pullover garments and usually of sweaters and T-shirts, when circles the neck. Often crew necked.
2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in the Guardian:
The designer herself was wearing tailored caramel-coloured trousers with a toning crew neck knit, because “it’s work, and I have too much to do to get dressed up”.
Referring to a collar, whose front is meant to ride up onto the neck, sometimes to Adam's apple level, more often termed as high crew.
2009 March 15, Geoffrey Wolff, “Suburban Suffering”, in New York Times:
For a writer celebrated for his control of his characters’ inner lives, for a husband and father notoriously prickly about his expression of the suburban proprieties — the crewneck Shetland sweater and khakis, the plummy faux-Brahmin accent, the adoring Labrador at his feet, the woodpile neatly stacked and grass hand-scythed — here was scandal in full spate, sludge flooding over his family and friends.
