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- Ruffled Evening Shirts of The Regency Era
- Stiff Fronts & Collars For Victorian Evening Shirts
- Stiff Or Soft Shirts For The Edwardians
- The Rise of Soft-Front Shirts
- Diverse Evening Shirts of The Interwar Period
- Dramatic Mid-Century Evening Shirts
In the early nineteenth century, day and evening shirts were constructed like nightshirts that slipped over the head and were generally made of white muslin (a loosely woven cotton). While the choice of white material might seem entirely unremarkable today, back then the wearing of white shirts, waistcoats and neckcloths was a subtle indication of ...
Stiff-Front Shirts
The popularity of lavishly ruffled shirt fronts declined throughout the conservative Victorian era in favor of delicate pleats or a plain front, the latter option becoming the most common style by the 1850s. Plain fronts required a thick bosom to maintain an unrumpled appearance on a shirt that otherwise fit very loosely. Eyelets began to appear at the same time to accommodate studs while starched cuffs made cufflinks more fashionable. The late Victorian period ushered in the stiff evening sh...
Detachable Collars
As the story goes, detachable was invented in 1827 by a housewife in Troy, New York who was tired of trying to remove the “ring-around-the-collar” from her husband’s shirts. Having a collar that was separate from the shirt was not only more efficient for laundering but was also more economical as it allowed the soiled collar to be replaced without having to buy an entirely new shirt. Initially manufactured by hand and constructed of cotton, paper or heavily starched linen, its popularity quic...
Detachable Cuffs and Bosoms
Sleeve cuffs were also available in detachable celluloid styles but were not as popular on formal shirts as were their collar counterparts. While the detachable collar was able to offer a variety of styles and a suitability to different neck lengths, detachable cuffs were simply a way to reduce laundering costs which were not supposed to be a concern for respectable gentlemen. A Dickey (alternately spelled dicky or dickie) is a type of false shirt-front that appeared in the 1820s as a permiss...
Stiff-Front Shirts
As in the previous era, the Edwardian full-dress shirt featured a stiff bosom of piqué or plain material and the number of studs ranged from one to three throughout the period. New to this era were soft pleated dress shirts with French cuffs which were appropriate only with the dinner jacket, although some mavericks adopted them for full dress. By the turn of the century the most popular collar styles – whether attached or detachable – were turndown, poke (i.e. upright or “imperial”) and wing...
Beginning at the turn of the century, etiquette guides were allowing plain or pleated front shirts with turndown or wing collars to be worn with the informal new dinner jacket. By World War I these shirts were specifically referred to as soft fronts as in this excerpt from Marion Hartland’s Complete Etiquette: Gold studs and gold link cuff buttons,...
Stiff-Front Shirts
Social formalities were significantly relaxed for practical reasons during the First World War and remained that way after peace returned. Consequently, full-dress was worn much less frequently and there were few developments the corresponding stiff-front shirt. Although the trend of having a shirt bosom, waistcoat and bow tie of matching piqué continued to grow, this was an expensive perk limited to those who could afford custom tailoring. Consequently, plain linen bosoms remained very popul...
Soft-Front Shirts
By 1928, the Prince of Wales had publicly condemned the boiled shirt of his ancestors and two Men’s Wearsurveys from that year revealed that American men seemed to share the sentiment. The periodical reported that while most men continued to favor wing collars and stiff-bosom shirts with their dinner jackets, some of the younger generations had taken to wearing negligee shirts with soft attached collars. The magazine’s editors scolded that “This style mirrors the quintessence of informality,...
Although social standards were relaxed once more following World War Two there was initially little change in shirts other than the fact that the detachable collar was relegated almost exclusively to white-tie attire which was now rarely seen. As for dinner shirts, the 1948 Vogue’s Book of Etiquettelisted some relatively new alternatives: besides t...
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Originally called the detachable bosom, the dickey shirtfront, made of rigid plastic, was the fashion in shirts in the late 19th century; the dickey also was one of the first successful, commercial applications of celluloid. Like the detachable shirt collar, the dickey (a bosom-front for a dress shirt) was invented as a separate accessory for ...
The term 'DETACHABLE SHIRT FRONT' refers to a type of shirt that has a detachable front panel, often referred to as a DICKEY.This type of shirt is designed to give the wearer the option of wearing a shirt with or without the front panel, allowing for more versatility in their wardrobe.
Detachable starched collars became commonly worn on men's shirts around 1850. The idea was to present a clean appearance to the world without the expense of laundering the whole shirt. As the century progressed collars rose and fell in height according to the fashion of the time reaching their most extreme height in the Edwardian era at the ...
Buttons on cuffs and stud holes at the center of the back neck and in the front for a detachable collar. Bibbed Front 100% cotton shirt has 4 button front closure, not including the stud hole for the collar. It is available in White, Red Stripe, Black Stripe or Navy Stripe. This is a slightly more dressy shirt than the plain front shirt.
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