Collar Stays

[Cordovan]

Your regular dry cleaner is the enemy. When you find a good one, he is your friend. Either way getting your shirts pressed is not what is in your shirts' best interests.

Cordovan

 

[Tomasso]

Originally Posted by mafoofan

her face filled with such unmistakable disdain at the notion that I didn't dare press it. Amongst other things she doesn't like,IIRC: rounded French cuffs, plackets,letting you pick your own collar
Sounds like Bizarro World .

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by Tomasso

Sounds like Bizarro World .

How DARE you! She is the World's Greatest Shirtmaker!

 

[Mark from Plano]

Originally Posted by iammatt

It isn't about whether she likes to iron, it is about whether I have convinced myself that she likes to iron. You are not yet married, but when you are, you will find that this is a pretty neat trick.


I've been married for nearly 20 years and I have no idea what you're taling about.

 

[Mark from Plano]

So...on SF "going commando" means wearing your shirts without collar stays???

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by Manton

How DARE you! She is the World's Greatest Shirtmaker!
I thought that to qualify for this title you needed to be proficient in cowboy shirts, photoshop and general internet malfeasance. Also, in proclaiming yourself as such, which I don't remember her doing.

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by iammatt

I thought that to qualify for this title you needed to be proficient in cowboy shirts, photoshop and general internet malfeasance. Also, in proclaiming yourself as such, which I don't remember her doing.

As you well know, the place for Kabbaz bashing is FNB.com.

I was not so much bashing Matuazzo (from what I have seen, her product is quite nice), but poking gentle fun at the quasi-religious devotion of some of her customer-frans.

BTW, the cowboy shirt, I know about. The photoshop incident(s), I don't.

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by Manton

As you well know, the place for Kabbaz bashing is FNB.com.
I know, but this is like ********** in your parent's bed. It is exciting and slightly risky. Over there it is old hat.

I was not so much bashing Matuazzo (from what I have seen, her product is quite nice), but poking gentle fun at the quasi-religious devotion of some of her customer-frans.

I know. We are a devoted group, and part of it probably has to do with the pizza.

BTW, the cowboy shirt, I know about. The photoshop incident(s), I don't.

At one point he photoshopped the pattern matching on some atrocious shirts to make a point. I don't recall clearly, but felt I needed three examples.

 

[Jumbie]

Originally Posted by Gipper40

Actually, it's an extra step in the morning--and honestly, how many times did you forget the damn stays once you have donnedyour tie and jacket.
Zero.

My system is to remove them before laundering, then I hang my shirts to dry and once I get around to ironing them (1-2/day depending on my shirt load) I immediately put the stays back in before putting them in the closet.

 

[JamesT]

Just got a Despos shirt today. No pockets in the collar for the stays. Does this mean I am now trendy and fashionable amongst the StyleForum elite?

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by JamesT

Just got a Despos shirt today. No pockets in the collar for the stays. Does this mean I am now trendy and fashionable amongst the StyleForum elite?

Yes.

 

[JamesT]

Originally Posted by Manton

Yes.

Is that a good thing?

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by JamesT

Is that a good thing?

Yes.

 

[Mark from Plano]

Originally Posted by JamesT

Just got a Despos shirt today. No pockets in the collar for the stays. Does this mean I am now trendy and fashionable amongst the StyleForum elite?

No. You're only trendy and fashionable if you have pockets and don't use them. This just means Chris gave you a defective shirt.

 

[Tomasso]

Originally Posted by iammatt

We are a devoted group, and part of it probably has to do with the pizza.
Is that why she darts her shirts;So that they can later be released?