Patent ID: 8296865

Claim:
An apparatus designed to operate with a shirt collar so as to provide stiffness to the shirt collar, the apparatus consisting of: a circular, semi-rigid element for surrounding the shirt collar, wherein the semi-rigid element is coextensive with the shirt collar and includes a gap located at a placket of a shirt and wherein the semi-rigid element contacts an interior of a collar fold of the shirt collar; a first elongated element coupled to a left side of the semi-rigid element at a first distance from a left end of the semi-rigid element, wherein the first elongated element projects downwards at an acute angle from the left side towards a center point of the semi-rigid element and projects downwards at an acute angle towards the left end of the semi-rigid element, and wherein a flat bottom end of the first elongated element contacts a shoulder of the shirt; a second elongated element coupled to a right side of the semi-rigid element at a second distance from a right end of the semi-rigid element, wherein the second distance is equal to the first distance, and wherein the second elongated element projects downwards at an acute angle from the right side towards the center point of the semi-rigid element and projects downwards at an acute angle towards the right end of the semi-rigid element, and wherein a flat bottom end of the second elongated element contacts a shoulder of the shirt; wherein a juncture of the first elongated element and the semi-rigid element comprises an adjustable joint wherein the acute angles of the first elongated element are adjustable; and wherein a juncture of the second elongated element and the semi-rigid element comprises an adjustable joint wherein the acute angles of the second elongated element are adjustable.