Shirts with buttons on collars

[Richard1978]

Re: Shirts with buttons on collars

I'm also not too on shirts with different coloured cuffs & collars.

Del had some in the earlier series of OF&H, & they have been in fashion more recently.

[stuckinthe80's]

Re: Shirts with buttons on collars

I think Ben Sherman followed this Road thinking about it on reflection but i'm unsure - can anyone else recall if they did? I know they were popular (button-wise) on the Collar and you could fasten them or not. Having them fastened or not in my are, if you went out dressed smart) earned you "The Dan" status through wearing such a Shirt anyway.

What are you on about? This makes no sense at all.

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And whats 'The Dan status'??? 'Dan'....lol

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Never understood the sartorial need for them...its not like the collar will fly off, up, up and away! Mind you, this should have been invented with the old removable whale-bone collar that went with the 'Nehru style shirt of yore... I think...

I don't like those shirts with 2 or 3 buttons at the throat area with a really thick, higher collar...Lawrence Lewellen Bowen and Johnathan Ross wear them amongst others...I just hate them...and also shirts with white collars and cuffs and a different coloured pastel or striped shirt...yuck.

Speaking of M & S, thats where I used to buy business shirts for suits as well as suits...good value. Its silly going to 'T.M. LEWIN' or any other designer label, its all probably made in the same factories in the same countries these days, they just slap a different label and alter them a bit...

I do have a few with the button down collar though, never really wear them much now...I much prefer smart casual, fitted shirts from H & M for value...

[zip55]

Re: Shirts with buttons on collars

I think Brooks Brothers in the US made them popular in the 60's and Ben Sherman copied the trend.

[Richard1978]

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I've got a few shirts with button down collars, the most recent were by Blue Harbour from Marks & Spencer.

[80sChav]

Re: Shirts with buttons on collars

I think Ben Sherman followed this Road thinking about it on reflection but i'm unsure - can anyone else recall if they did? I know they were popular (button-wise) on the Collar and you could fasten them or not. Having them fastened or not in my are, if you went out dressed smart) earned you "The Dan" status through wearing such a Shirt anyway.

[darren]

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where they just one or where the shirts you mean have more than one colour on them.

i should remember them only a pic might jog my memory.

did they have a well known name on them for example fruit of the loom.

[80sChav]

Can anyone else recall how these used to be the rage in the late 1980s to early 1990s?! I thought they were fantastic at the time, more so the type of Shirts that I called "scrunchy" (I am sure there is another descripitive name) buyt I can not think of it sorry. Thanks for any replies.

80sChav