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British Workwear

esteban68

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Have a look on the www.classicwardrobe.co.uk site there's a fairly nice penny round on there currently on sale it even has holes in the collar for collar bars / pins.....sadly limited stock!
I was always told a penny round was essentially a 'standard' classic style collar with the points rounded off ant the straight with curved ends as a club collar....as always it's all in the language!
 
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Two Types

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I think I have a photo somewhere of my great-uncle wearing a similar collar with pin. It must be no later than very early 1920s (since he ied in the early twenties).
 

herringbonekid

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from the 1954, Marshall Ward catalogue:

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Dostioffsky

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I have seen quite a few long collars in those Canadian magazines. This picture has one with rounded tips, too. I think it must be from 1917 or so.

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I myself have a somewhat longer rounded collar from the era too, though not quite as long as the ones in the photo:

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Eddie Derbyshire

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Lovely collar, and a great little advert there. I suppose collars were another affordable way for regular gents to express their own style. Regular gents don't get the option these days. It's spread or right angular or nothing!

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Dostioffsky

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Oh, yes I have a folder full of collar ads, just from those Canadian magazines.

I think 'tape links' refers to a tape with a button on each side that goes through a button hole on each side of the collar.

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Eddie, thanks! Yes it's quite a shame about today's collars. I really like the option of picking whichever collar I feel like when wearing a collarless shirt.
 
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Dostioffsky

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Will do when I get home tonight! I am not sure if I have a clear/definite picture of this button link, though. I do have a few variations in link or button types... Like the 'Tooke hook', but more of that in the right thread, tonight!
 

Barmey

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Merry Christmas folks

This probably belongs in the British Suits thread, but here's a cool peice of tailoring being used in this lads work attire.
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Love this 1943 photo taken by Cecil Beaton. You can see by the Cresent pockets that this was cleary once a very fashionable jacket. Edward VIII popularised cresent pockets in the mid 20s. Here's another example HBK posted on page 44 of the British Suits thread.

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esteban68

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When old fashioned becomes workwear!
As an engineering apprentice is the early 1980's many of the older guys would come to work in odd suit parts , tweed jackets and their like ....wool was preferred as it didn't burn as easily as terylene....I guess looking back now I suspect much of the stuff they were wearing would have been from the fifties or earlier.
 

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