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NOS 20's spearpoint dress shirt with unique texture

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While buttoned through shirts certainly existed, I would have thought that this feature would place it more likely into the 40's, no?
 
Tunic shirts are vanishingly rare (except stiff-fronted dress shirts) in the US from the middle 20s onwards. Everything (and certainly at the lower-middle end of the market) was full button front in the 30s.

Europe of course is a different story. There is a scene in the book "The Gilt Kid" (a British socialist proto-noir from 1936) where the Gilt Kid, just out of prison, in a barber's being shaved and trimmed send the barber's helper out to buy a shirt "Yankee-style, you know the kind with a collar attached and you put it on like a coat".
 

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I'll Lock Up
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Kays catalogues appear to show tunic shirts all the way into the mid 1950s. It seems to only be full button for some casual shirts.
 

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I'll Lock Up
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Just to correct that: in 1953 Kays offered the 'Stardust' shirt which was a "new style shirt which is becoming all the rage". It would seem likely that this refers to a button through shirt. So we can assume that tunic shirts remained predominant until at least 1953.
 

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