Advice appreciated on my shirt collar

[The Dirty Pigeon]

I'm looking for some advice/direction on front of of my collars. I get these from a made-to-measure company and I have some flexibility to alter the height and measurements in detail. To me, it seems like the line of the collar takes drastic pitch downward right before the collar button, as seen in the side view photos below. This makes the tie sit in a way that appears as though it is pulling my shirt collar down from the front or something like that.

My front collar band height is 1" and the back band height is about 1 1/8". I am a shorter guy so this seems about right as far as proportions go. I wouldn't want to go higher in the back and it would seem odd to have a higher collar band in the front than the back, right? The collar is snug around my neck and not loose. Does anyone else see something that can be improved here? If so, what could be going on? Thank you in advance.

 

[breakaway01]

I wonder -- is it possible that what you're seeing is not that the front collar band needs to be raised but rather that the tie space (the gap between the collar leaves) needs to be decreased slightly? IMO the tie space is a little on the wide side.

I do think that 1" is on the shorter side for the front of the collar band. On the other hand, it would be odd for the front to be taller than the back. I would also consider increasing front/back slightly but I know you don't want to increase the height at the back.

 

[Leiker]

I think you could go up just a bit on both front and back.

 

[suitedcboy]

My shirts range a bit in this same area. From my fussing around with the shirts I think the band height is part of it but taper in the band also affects it. I'm using "taper" to describe circumference of bottom of the band being larger than top of the band. It seems on my shirts that if the lower band is smaller that it pushes the collar up on my neck. I'm sure it is more complicated and one thing changes another changes another in shirt collar construction.

 

[The Dirty Pigeon]

Is it possible to make the front of a shirt collar, where the tie knot is, sit higher up on the neck toward the Adam’s apple without making the collar band bigger?