British Workwear

i wouldn't have expected to see something that long from 1921 would you ? (although there are some unusually long sports shirt collars from the mid-teens to early '20s in photos of cricketers etc.).
for a longer collar though i still prefer the pointier end rather than those round tips.

 

Aren't they called ' penny round'collars?

 

i haven't heard that before, but it sounds good !

 

You see I've heard both the old double-round collars called that, as well as the 1970s manifestations. I've never been clear what exactly a 'penny round' is

 

Google search seems to suggest the 'penny round' is the narrow rounded 'club' type of collar.

 

Try '1970s penny round collar'. Monstrous.

 

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!

 

from the 1954, Marshall Ward catalogue:

 

The tweed trousers are interesting. Apparently my wife's grandfather had a thick pair of tweed trousers that he wore for farming all weathers, hot or cold.

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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.



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

 

so much collar variety from that period.

('tape links'... interesting)

 

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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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.



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.

 

please post a pic if you have one (in the 'shirt collar oddities' thread)... i'm looking for evidence of how these button links were constructed.

 

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!

 

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.


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.

 

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.

 

My grand parents, my grandfather was a gardener, picture taken mid 1960s