Neat way to write loop that has special logic for the first item in a collection

Question

Often I have to code a loop that needs a special case for the first item, the code never seems as clear as it should ideally be.

Short of a redesign of the C# language,

Answer 1

The way you wrote it is probably the cleanest way it can be written. After all, there is logic specific to the first element, so it has to be represented somehow.