A Bachlelor's Brainstorm ( Gag ), The Metal Shirt Collar

JPK Huson 1863

Brev. Brig. Gen'l
Joined
Feb 14, 2012
Location
Central Pennsylvania
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Spent some time tooling around era portraits wondering, " Is this one? " Decided there were no portraits of men wearing one of these because they were all dead within days. " Choker ". * snorkel * :giggle: Widow maker.

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Erroneously ' unidentified ' ( when he is clearly Sam Elliot ) , also clearly married- a perfectly starched, blindingly white collar of linen with surgical points indicates Sam was immune to these ads.

http://clickamericana.com/topics/love-marriage/unidentified-but-not-forgotten-pre-civil-war-daguerreotype-portraits

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Steel and enameled.

Perhaps not quite deserving of its own thread but one aspect of Ladies Tea I've been resolved on is what on earth our ancestors' world was. Peculiarities? Many. This is peculiar. I'm guessing in a day when a shirt collar required much in the form of painstaking labor- whiteness, starched, pressed and much sweated-on, one of life's pain-in-the-neck necessities. ( sorry..... ) In short, collars required something even more expensive by way of upkeep. A wife.

A bachelor invented this, would lay money on it. First thing a new bride did, upon assuming duties? Pitched them.

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A consumer who wished not to be identified describes his harrowing escape from steel's embrace in next week's newspaper. Stay tuned. ( That's a joke...... )
 
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