A choke collar, often known simply as a choker, a necklace that is very tight around the neck. it dosn’t fall behind the collarbone or chest, but sitting around the neck like a necklace. Collier short name means that if it was a little tight, it could strangle the wearer.
Necklace evolved fashion of wearing the belt around the neck. In the worst excesses of the French Revolution, young women in England and elsewhere, took the fashion of wearing red ribbons around the throat as a symbol of those who had died on the guillotine - and perhaps soon to use the tapes as a gesture of sympathy and solidarity with the class of victims.
