Improvements in Shirts.
Year: 1897

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shirts.
We, GILES WARD of 260 Flinders Lane, Melbourne in the Colony of Victoria,
Salesman and JOHN EDWARD DODGSHUN of 260 Flinders Lane, Melbourne in the
Colony of Victoria aforesaid, Merchant 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:-—
The object of this invention is to provide shirts with certain permanent collar
attachments, which may be either displayed and used presenting the general appear-
ance of an ordinary collar, or, at the will of the wearer, be hidden so that any
ordinary collar may be attached to the shirt in the ordinary way.
To render the precise nature of our attachment manifest we will refer to the details
lettered in the attached sheet of drawings, in which
Figure 1 shows portion of a shirt with the collar attachment in its hidden position;
Figure 2 shows the same parts with the collar attachment in its displayed or used
position; Figure 3 shows the same parts with the collar attachment in the "stand up
collar" position; and
Figure 4 is a representation of the parts with the collar attachment and the ordinary
collar band of the shirt separated from one another as far as possible, to show where
the connection of the attachment to the shirt is made.
In each figure the same parts are represented by the same letters of reference and
the parts are shown approximately as they would appear from above when the attach-
ment is flattened out upon a table. Dotted lines show the position of certain parts
which are below others, and seams are not indicated.
A is the upper part of the back of an ordinary shirt, having a neck band proper B,
with back studhole or the like C. The interior sides of A and B and C (seen clearly
in Figure 4) are marked A', B and C respectively. The attachment comprises,
firstly, a permanent collar, E representing the side thereof displayed and used in the
position shown in Figure 2, and E¹ the other side, said collar having a studhole or the
like (having its respective sides shown by F and F adapted to coincide with studhole C
as shown in Figure 2; and secondly a neck band, hereinafter called for distinction
the false neckband, which connects the said permanent collar to the inside A¹ of the
shirt, along a line lower down than the neckband proper. The side of the false neck-
band which contacts with the side A' of the shirt, in Figure 1, is marked D, and the
other side D (see Figure 4) contacts with the side of the neckband proper
whenever the parts take the position shown in Figure 2 or that shown in Figure 3.
Further means of attachment as button and buttonhole G, G' may be provided to
keep the points of the permanent collar against the shirt in the position shown in
Figure 2. The false neckband is of so much greater size than the neckband proper
that when the parts are in the position shown in Figure 2 the upper edge of the false
neckband will be as high as or even slightly higher (vide Figure 3) than the upper
edge of the neckband proper. Care is necessary as to the shape, size and position of
connection of the parts of the attachment, in order that the shirt provided with the
same shall prove comfortable to the wearer, which will be the case only when the
attachment sets evenly or smoothly in each of its positions. In the position shown in
Figure 2 a stud or the like is employed connecting the permanent collar to the neck
band proper. This stud is prevented from reaching to the wearer's neck by the false
neckband.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The general combination and arrangement with a shirt having a neckband
proper, of a permanent collar and the false neckband as and for the purposes herein
described and as illustrated in the drawings.
Dated this 15th day of February 1897
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.