Item 2022.40.7 - Percy Harrison Striped Shirt with Three Separate Collars

2022.40.7

Percy Harrison Striped Shirt with Three Separate Collars

Item

4 [1 shirt and 3 collars]

Collarless shirt in a thin brown pinstripe. Shirt is front fastening via five mother of pearl effect buttons. The buttons only reach just over half the way down the front and there is a flap-over front below this. It has a neckband collar to which a detachable, trubenised collar [three included] can be fitted via worked stud holes on neck band [two at front and one stud hole in pocket at back of neck]. Each sleeve has a French cuff with four worked link holes enabling cufflinks to be worn when the sleeve is doubled back. Shirt is long in length so that is stays tucked in securely. The hemline of the shirt is rounded and is longer at the back than the front, with splits at each side seam.

Label: Percy Harrison / Menswear Specialist / Kingston Upon Thames & Wimbledon / 15 1/2
Measurements: 55cm [Chest]; 90cm [Length]; 55cm [Sleeve Length]
Materials: Cotton
Details: Turn back cuffs; Spare Collars
Physical Condition: Generally good condition. Some discolouration on band of spare collar.

Shirts in this style marked the start of the transition from standard tunic shirts as worn from 1920-50 to standard cost shirts with finished bands and buttons to hem as worn from 1955 onwards. [Elmbridge Museum]