Tab Collar Shirts Still Available?

[Claudio]

One learns how to sew a button or make a trouser hem, but full coats and jackets, thats tailoring and the way the stuff fits you, a damn good one at that!
Then if its a 9-5 job thats bringing in the cash that doesnt make a difference IMO. Bravo!

 

[herringbonekid]

Here is something a later design, not tab, but not sure where to post it, but take a look and let me know, this one is in a sanded 7oz cotton in beige.

hard to get too excited about beige, but it looks good. slightly uniform-ish. i can imagine it working with a brown leather 30s-40s flight-type jacket. what was your take on it... a not too formal dress shirt ?

 

[Two Types]

Hi fellas thanks for the feedback, its really helpful, as Michael Angelo was prone to say "...As the marble wastes the statue grows". Here is something a later design, not tab, but not sure where to post it, but take a look and let me know, this one is in a sanded 7oz cotton in beige.

I have another red and blue tab coming in soon which I hope to share with you.

I wonder whether the collar needs to be softer on that shirt. Whenever I've seen that shape collar (USA late thirties/early 1940s?) it's been on a casual shirt. This collar looks a bit too formal for the style.

What were the influences you used for the design?

 

[Two Types]

Here's a shot of me wearing a tab collar earlier this week.

 

[herringbonekid]

who's that one made by TT ?

 

[Two Types]

It was from a shop in Sicilian Avenue in London. They had a massive range of custom features (about 30 or more collar styles to choose from, if I remember correctly). Then the shiort was made in Spain. They charged about £60, but they've closed down now. The label just said 'La Chemiserie Traditionelle'.

 

[Two Types]

I've just found their website. The company is in Madrid:
http://1850lct.pegil.es/en/home/showroom/

They have 17 styles of cuffs and 40 styles of collar. Lots of choice of fabric, including plenty of stripes.
This is one of their shirts, in a blue and brown stripe:

 

[simonc]

TT I wanted to make an early 20th cent shirt of no particular year that was heavy enough (you know I like heavy) and robust enough and yet could be worn with cloth, leather, or denim. It is fitted but yet I have loosed the upper block for movement in the shoulders and chest. I'm not sure if it was James Cagney playing guitar, or just flash backs to my grandfather and his brother on the land but I think a quality beige shirt is so easy to match with just about any trousers or jacket for less formal occasions. Chevalier claims the collar to be an perfect early 50's Californian V collar - in truth having produced many things in my life I have learnt to let others form the final consensus of what something is rather than me. Thanks.

 

[herringbonekid]

Jack Buchanan in a tab collar with wide spaces between stripes:

Ralph Lynn clearly favoured the tab:

 

[Two Types]

Here's a selection of tab collar shirts (detachable collars) from the 1933 Kays Catalogue.

(you'll need to look at the original page to see them clearly)

 

[herringbonekid]

there are no tab collars in my early 20s U.S. catalogues, but there's a lot of collars with buttons which would pull the collar back in the same way as the tab:

...these are usually described as having 'two buttons which fasten to collar band' or as 'button links' which i guess is two buttons attached by elastic or similar, which would logically be the precursor to the attached tab.

i'd like to know when the tab came in. i'm assuming around the mid-late 20s when these more Edwardian looking collars became extinct.

 

[Flat Foot Floey]

Reminds me I once saw some kind of collar bar on french ebay. But it had two buttons and seemed to work like a tab. Of course I can't find the picture now. :eusa_doh:

 

[mactire]

Perhaps folk here aren't aware of them but theres a place in the UK that does vintage style shirts fairly reasonably:

http://www.classicwardrobe.co.uk/Shirts.aspx

They're one of the few places to do detachable collars and tunic shirts too http://www.classicwardrobe.co.uk/Detachable-Collars.aspx

http://www.darcyclothing.com/shop/collars.html
http://www.tomsawyerwaistcoats.co.u...lars-and-collarless-legal-shirts-0003629.aspx

or the manufacturer Luke Eyres https://www.luke-eyres.co.uk/

 

[herringbonekid]

...But it had two buttons and seemed to work like a tab. Of course I can't find the picture now. :eusa_doh:

there's this too, from 1919:

 

[simonc]

I wonder if for the short button collars they ever used brass or gold button pins rather than buttons as they did for the top button to gather the tab?

 

[Two Types]

Perhaps folk here aren't aware of them but theres a place in the UK that does vintage style shirts fairly reasonably:

http://www.classicwardrobe.co.uk/Shirts.aspx

It's a pity they only have blue and white, rather than any striped fabrics.

 

[Fading Fast]

I wonder if for the short button collars they ever used brass or gold button pins rather than buttons as they did for the top button to gather the tab?

If I understand your question correctly (the fault is mine as I am less informed than all of you), I owned several Abercrombie and Fitch shirts (back when before they became soft-porn purveyors to teenagers) that had tab collars that closed with a brass stud. The collars were very short (think 1960s tab collar shirts) and, I think, I bought out my size - they had them for one season - and wore them 'till they literally fell apart. It was a beautiful shirt and a wonderful vintage touch that gave me a moment of pop in the morning when I put it on.

A woman I worked with asked me one day what that "metal thing was under my tie." She was impressed when I showed her the way it worked and she said she always noticed the thought I put into my clothes. It was a nice moment.

 

[simonc]

Thanks, nice story.

 

[Dostioffsky]

Here is something seemingly tab collaresque from 1905

I think I remember seeing a thread on here with examples of all kinds of inventive collars too...

EDIT: this is the one: http://www.thefedoralounge.com/show...ollar-oddities-Boardwalk-Empire-Shirt-Collars

 

[Dostioffsky]

Tab collar related pictures from that thread:

More variations with the Triangle Hook:

These two are from 1916: