Req: Essential 30s-40s Dress Shirt Pics

[BellyTank]

Eh What!

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[Marc Chevalier]

I mentioned this in another thread, but it may bear repeating.

SPREAD (or "cutaway") collars have been around since at least the U.S. Civil War, when detachable collars began to be in vogue. President Theodore Roosevelt wore spread collars all the time. In the '30s, James Cagney wore spread collars in his gangster films The Public Enemy and The Roaring Twenties. "Esquire" magazine and "Apparel Arts Quarterly" regularly showed fashion plates of men wearing spread collars with pinstripe suits and homburgs or bowler hats. It also helped that the trendsetting Prince of Wales/Duke of Windsor and his brother, the Duke of Kent, were fanatically "attached" (pun intended) to spread collars.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

That Brown Wool Gab Pendleton one's mine

Measure it up. There's a good chap.

Pip pip.

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[Tomasso]

The 70s did some pretty good repro of this style shirt collar, but the thing they got consistently wrong was the dimensions. The collars were always so damn HUGE. The 30s/40s shirts i've come across have (can't think of a good word) slim-line collars.

Yes, while the 30's/40's and 70's shirts collars both had long points, the 70's collar had a much higher stand(band) and leaf. The classic Armani collar is 30's/40's inspired.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Zach, The collar on the 30s 14.5 neck shirt i just received has the same measurements as the one i posted earlier (15 neck).

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