A Retaining Device for Personal Wear, for Holding Shirt and Collar together."
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 19th Mar., 1892
COME LETE SPECIFICATION.
A Retaining Device for Personal Wear, for Holding Shirt and
Collar together."
I, CHARLES FREDERICK ROWE, of 90 Gracechurch Street, in the City of
London, Shirt Tailor and Hosier, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to a retaining device for personal wear for holding shirt and
collar together.
The object of my said invention is to enable the collar to be readily secured to the
shirt at the back of the neck thereof without the use of a button or stud, by strong
and simple means possessing greater strength, durability, and convenience than the
arrangement of button and button hole, or stud and stud-hole commonly employed
for the purpose. The said retaining device is moreover more comfortable to the
wearer.
According to my invention I attach to the neck band of the shirt at the back and
on that face of it which is away from the wearer, a loop or pocket of tape, or of
any other suitable material. Upon the collar, at the middle of its length, and on
that side of it which is presented towards the wearer I provide a stiff tag or tongue
of linen or of other suitable material preferably secured to the collar at a point near
its lower edge, and extending upward. By the simple operation of inserting the tag
in the loop or pocket the collar is held in place. The collar may also be removed
from the shirt. with equal facility.
In order that my invention may be readily understood I will now proceed to
describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
Figure 1 is an elevation of a collar to which the hereinbefore mentioned tag is
applied.
Figure 2 is a front view of a portion of a shirt upon which the said loop is
provided.
Figure 3 is a rear view of the upper portion of Figure 2, and,
Figure 4 is a central vertical section through the shirt on the line of the tag and
the loop when each is engaged with the other.
In the said figures A is the shirt and A' is the neck-band thereof. B is a loop
of tape securely sewn to the band at B¹. C is a collar and D is a tag or tongue
sewn to the collar at D' in such a manner as to lie fairly closely to the face of the
collar in the position seen in Figure 4 for example. To engage the collar with the
shirt the free end of the tag or tongue D is passed up under the loop B so that
the parts assume the positions indicated in Figure 4, and, when the parts are thus
in engagement they will remain so, for the collar as is well known, has a constant
tendency to rise upward at the back.
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The said loop may be either secured to or formed as part of the collar-band, and
the said tag or tongue, instead of being sewn on to the collar may be formed in one
therewith and bent upward in the proper direction.
Or, as an alternative the loop may be secured to or formed upon the collar, and
a downwardly extending tongue to engage therewith may be secured to or formed
upon the neck-band of the shirt. Or I may provide two or more of the said
tongues, and one, two, or more loops or pockets with which they may engage.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A retaining device consisting of a tag or tongue or tags or tongues provided upon

page_text: the collar or upon the shirt and a loop or loops or its or their equivalent provided
upon the shirt or upon the collar respectively, substantially as hereinbefore described
and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 13th day of February 1892.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.