Patent ID: 7409730

Claim:
Apparatus for magnetically holding a shirt collar in a position and orientation on a shirt front, comprising in combination: an elongate collar stay adapted for attachment to an inside surface of a shirt collar or positionable within a collar stay pocket of a collar, the collar stay comprising a material attractable by a magnet; and a magnet positionable against an inside surface of a shirt front opposite a collar thereof and operable for magnetic attachment to the elongate collar stay through the shirt front, for holding a collar to which the collar stay is attached, against the shirt front, wherein the collar stay includes an inside surface oriented for facing the magnet when the stay is attached to an inside surface of a shirt collar, the inside surface of the stay including at least one detent protruding therefrom for substantially limiting relative longitudinal movement between the stay and the magnet when magnetically attached thereto through a shirt front.