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Spear point collar shirts

alden405

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cptjeff

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Off subject, but the guy next to him proves that short crowned stingies did exist way back when. Sweet hat, that felt looks wonderful.
 

Peter

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Spearpoint shirts

Good day to one and all!

After the superb assistance I received in my quest for a suitable fedora, I have another question to throw open to the floor:

I am looking for a supplier of good (but not TOO expensive) spearpoint collar shirts, plain or lightly striped, interwar style.

always your servant

Peter
 

Doc Average

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Good day to you too!

You could try The Vintage Shirt Company. I was looking at their spearpoint shirts just the other day. They're a little on the expensive side for me admittedly, but they might be just what you're looking for.

Here's a link to their site. They have several available colours and colour combinations. They also have a "military" version in khaki (without pockets or epaulettes it appears), and an "American" version, with a stiffer, longer point collar. All look very nice in my opinion. A version with a little more curve in the collar would be nice though.

http://www.vintageshirt.co.uk/

If you are considering ordering, beware the fact that prices don't include VAT and postage. That hikes them up by a fair bit.

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Edward

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VSC can't be beaten on quality, though, yes, not exactly the sort of price that most of us could afford to snatch them up half a dozen at a time...

I have some shirts from the Saville Row company - www.savillerow.co.uk if memory serves - that came in at around twenty quid each on offer. All-cotton, double cuff, and with a nice pointed collar, came with a collar pin (nicely tailored holes in collar for the bar). Not quite the spearpoint of the VSCs, but nevertheless they work very well for a period look, IMO. I think they only have them in white at present, but might be worth asking them.
 

Doc Average

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Thanks for the tips - I'm glad someone brought up the subject of spearpoints actually. It's incredibly difficult to get anything other than cutaways on off the peg shirts in the UK these days. I don't have anything against them, but it's nice to have a bit of variety. Even in M&S, if it isn't cutaway, it's a boring square cut collar of the type I had to wear with school uniform many years ago...

I also stumbled on this site - I haven't tried it yet, and have no idea if they're any good. They do have pointed collars, but they don't seem to be as vintage looking as the others. I'm a bit wary of such gimmickry - possibly unreasonably so I suppose.

http://www.tailorstore.co.uk/tailor-made-shirts

I notice that The Saville Row Company have a couple of nice round tip collared shirts too, which would make for an alternative vintage look.
 

Peter

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Spearpoint shirts

Thank you gentlemen!

Excellent help and very useful advice as before. Splendid.

Your servant

Peter
 

Tenorclef

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Apologies if this has been discussed previously.....has any one had any luck tracking down modestly priced 'spear point collar' shirts here in the UK? I did try M&S today but was quite dissapointed by their offerings. All open/wide collar types.

For my sins, I play trombone in a small group focussing on the music from the 1920's and 30's and some efforts have been made on our part to look the part.
 

Fly Boy

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I'm desperately looking myself - If anyone knows of a place, please let us all know! The cheapest spearpoint collar shirts I've found so far have been £70 each!!!
 

Tenorclef

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Yes... I've somewhat decided if i can't find a source of regular shirts in this 'spear point' style, i'll resign myself to buying one from the pricier vendors as a shirt for special occasions.
 

Fly Boy

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Excellent! I shall probably be ordering from wardrobesupplies myself. Many thanks! :)

Tenorclef, a review would be much appreciated once yours arrive!
 
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Tenorclef

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Ok, so here is a photo of one of my Spear point collar shirts with collar clips to keep the collars from flapping about. It gives off a great vintage vibe. Looks very old school English. The quality seems pretty good too but only time will tell. The shirt is an off white and quite soft.

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Tenorclef

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Fly boy, if you require a collar clip for these shirts (and you will of course), i have two spare ones slightly smaller than the one photographed. I'm a 17" collar and my other two clips seems to be for a slightly smaller collar size than I currently use...
 

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