#starching

Have you tried to starch the collar? This would be my first recommendation because it is widely practiced to make collars stiff outside of the cosplay world. (1 2)

If this doesn’t work I would suggest opening up the collar and adding interfacing. This is often iron on and really easy to do, but would involve ripping the seams of your jacket. (1) 

Another way that might work, but would also involve deconstructing the collar, would be to add in a thin, flexible wire around the seam to make the collar more flexible. I’m having trouble finding a tutorial for this but here is a post discussing wire in cosplay (1) 

As for open binding, this is potentially really dangerous because you need to use tape to open bind, but luckily for you I’m trans and know my way around this predicament. 

Some warnings before I get into it:

Never bind with duck tape or ace bandages. These can very easily damage your ribs. If anything starts to hurt, stop as quickly as you can. If you end up binding with a traditional binder, only wear it for a maximum of 8 hours. I strongly recommend to not buy cheap ebay binders and invest in a gc2b or underworks binder if you’re buying anything. 

Binding with KT tape or Trans Tape is the only way of safe open binding that I would consider to tell you guys about. (1 2 3 4* 5)

if anyone wants more information on binding (open or closed) feel free to send in an ask!

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Hoorahh! Good news for every woman wearing a pretty polka-dot apron! Someone had women's workload in mind - or, at least there would now be no need to spend the household budget on starch. The shape of this card, with its sloping "shoulders", shows that it was once inserted with a packaged or folded shirt. The woman's clothes suggest a mid-1940s date, but the card may date from as early as 1939, when Lichfield "Point-setter" shirts were advertised in the Christchurch Press: "Buy a Point-Setter coat shirt. Here’s a tonic for your shirt wardrobe, and your bank account as well. ... This Lichfield Shirt with the Point-Setter collar comes in the form-fit design. It slopes with your shoulders, tapers with your arm-—drapes you in at the waist. ...“Point-Setter” spot welded collars mark the greatest improvement that has taken place in collar trade since its inception. Thrifty housewives like them, too, they are easy to wash and iron, and do not require starch". Advertisements for the shirt continued through the early 1940s.

Lichfield Shirts :Less work for women; look how easy it is to launder these Lichfield Point-Setter collars. R.T.M. 32715. [1940-1950s].