IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRT FRONTS AND IN ATTACHING COLLARS TO SHIRTS
Year: 1886

page_text: I, WILLIAM HUSBAND, Doctor of Medicine, 28 Clarence Street, Edinburgh, in
the County of Midlothian, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRT FRONTS AND IN ATTACHING COLLARS TO SHIRTS to be as
follows:-
The shirt-neck is made with two small perpendicular bands attached to it, A, B,
one on either side of the front, in a line with the button holes as represented in
figure 1.
The upper and lower edges of each band are sewed to the neck of the shirt: the
lateral or perpendicular edges are left free so that a transverse passage is formed
beneath the band.
When the shirt is put on and the front fastened by inserting the studs (the neck
being still unfastened) the collar is put on and adjusted by passing the ends of it
through beneath the band A, as shewn in figure 2, or as in figure 3, in which the
collar is so shaped that the ends lie horizontally.
The collar is now in position, and, even, without a neck-tie, remains fixed so far,
especially if it has the circular form and the spring which ordinary dressing gives
it. The neck-tie secures it perfectly.
Instead of both ends of the collar being passed through below A, one of them
may be passed through below B, behind. "But in either case the intention is that
the shirt-front shall be made reversible so that B may be either behind A or in
front of it.
The shirt-front is made reversible by leaving the left side of it, at the waist
(figure 4) unattached to the waist-band by the space of about an inch and a quarter
along the line be where it is ordinarily sewed down.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION (AMENDED).
Improvements in Shirt Fronts and in Attaching
Collars to Shirts.
I, WILLIAM HUSBAND Doctor of Medicine, 28 Clarence Street, Edinburgh in
the County of Midlothian do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRT FRONTS AND IN ATTACHING COLLARS TO SHIRTS and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The shirt-neck is made with two small perpendicular bands A, B, attached to
it, one on either side of the front, in a line with the stud holes, as represented in
figure 1. The upper and lower edges of each band are sewed to the neck of the
shirt; the lateral or perpendicular edges are left free, so that a transverse passage
is formed beneath the band.
When the shirt is put on, and the front fastened by inserting the studs-the
neck being still unfastoned-the collar is put on and adjusted in one of two ways,
at the option of the wearer, viz.—either by passing both ends CD of it through beneath
the band A, as in figure 2, or by passing one end through below A, and the other
below B behind, (figure 3). The collar is now in position and remains so until the
neck-tie, being tied, secures it perfectly.
In order that full advantage of the contrivance may be obtained, it is intended
that the shirt front shall be made reversible, so that Å may be worn alternatively
either in front of B or behind it.
This is done by leaving the left side of the shirt front (figure 4), at the waist,
unattached to the waist band by the space of about an inch, or a little more, along
the line b c where it is ordinarily sewed down.
That My invention supersedes all fastening of the collar by stud or button:
2-That by means of it the collar adjusts itself accurately to the neck band of the
shirt, securing perfect fitting and comfort to the wearer: and
3. That it provides for the reversing of the shirt front.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that
what I claim is ;-
1. The band A or bands A & B receiving the ends C & D substantially as described.
2. The combination, with the said bands A & B receiving the ends C & D), of the
opening at bc, substantially as described.
Dated this 16th day of August 1886