kpreed
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I was just gifted a set and have no-idea how to use them correctly. Regular Collar Buttons work great for me, but these are new for me. Can somebody help please? Thanks.
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Spring Loaded Collar Button HELP
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Orgetorix
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It's not a collar button. It's a shirt stud, used with evening wear in place of buttons to close the front of your shirt.
A detachable collar too.
Marc Chevalier
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It's a shirt stud, and nothing else. Not for a collar or a collar band; only for an evening shirtfront.
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kpreed
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I guess that is why it is so alien for me, I will keep using the regular collar buttons. Thanks
Question about shirt studs: Why did the set only have three Studs?
Question about shirt studs: Why did the set only have three Studs?
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They use shirt studs with attached collars?
Because in the pre-war era trousers were worn higher at the waist and only three studs were visible. Now that trousers are worn lower, a fourth stud is necessary.
kpreed
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Great info, Thank You!
Marc Chevalier
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The shirtfronts of evening ("tuxedo") shirts, even those that have attached collars, take shirt studs. Always have, and perhaps always will.
Trombone
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Pardon me if I'm stepping over everybody, but I recall on a thread somewhere here that those would be formal waistcoat buttons. Formal Waistcoats have 3 buttons don't they?
Trombone
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I'm making a contrast between Shirt Studs and Waistcoat Buttons because whenever I've seen Waistcoat buttons, they have had the posts that attach them, unlike shirt studs, most of which I've seen have the small flat disk behind them. Did your buttons come with any others, maybe cuff links and shirt studs?
Marc Chevalier
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Detachable buttons for waistcoats are larger in size than shirt studs -- nearly twice as large, in fact. The small stud that this thread erroneously called a "spring loaded collar button" is definitely a shirt stud, not a waistcoat button.
Before the 1930s, single-breasted formal waistcoats had four buttons. Beginning in the '30s, it became more fashionable for them to have only three buttons.
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kpreed
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The Set came in a case with places for the two Cuff Links and the three Shirt Studs.
Trombone
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Yes, after my post, I looked up pictures of waistcoat buttons and as you have said Marc, these are not.
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