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This fine looking young man from the 1890s is wearing a Windsor
tie, in patterned silk, tucked in after a fashion that seems
to have been popular in the US (I have seen several examples
of it).
His collar is the winged style often called "Patricide",
based on a fictitious story that a young man returned from
university wearing the new style starched collar (new in the
1850s). When his father embraced him, the points on the collar
cut his father's throat.
This, of course, never happened but the story was enough
to name the collar. This style was frequently worn with frock
suits, morning suits and evening wear (he seems to be wearing
a morning suit). It was seldom worn with sack suits.
Stiff collars were usually removable, so they could be washed
and starched apart from the shirt, and thrown away when they
became worn, while the shirt could remain in service for years
to come.
Removable collars were usually made of linen. Cheap paper
and then celluloid collars came on the market at the end of
the 19th Century.
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Click Here for an Example of an Original
19th Century Shirt |
