With the holiday season fast approaching, so too arrives the perennial dilemma of finding the perfect gift for one’s beloveds. Mr. OSCAR WILDE once offered the sage advice that “One should never give a woman anything that she can’t wear in the evening.” But what to give her male counterpart? Mr. BAS GROENEN from London, UK, thinks the gift of a fine pair of silver collar stays strikes just the right note. They are simple, yet can be personalized with initials, and they have hint of luxury that is solely the wearer’s pleasure. They are useful and uncommon accessories in the closet of today’s man; all the better since one does not want to give a gift already owned. The pair displayed here can be found at TIFFANY’S and comes at the fair price of 40 pound sterling.
THE DAILY RECOMMENDATIONS
SILVER COLLAR STAYS
TWENTY NOVEMBER, TWO THOUSAND AND NINE
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N° 14
AUTUMN & WINTER 2011
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COMMENTS
Capstick:
I think that is a very good gift! Thanks really
Peter:
how does one use these things, really? slide them into a shirt’s collar?
Mr. ADAM ROBERTS:
A fine suggestion. One thinks it may be a little gauche to opt for personalisation however. In my humble opinion it should be more de rigueur for one’s reputation, rather than the engraving of one’s collar stays, to be the identifier.
Beha:
As Peter, I’d really like to know how to use them. Because if they are used as I could imagine they’d be awesome to have.
Aaron:
Collar stays, or collar bones as I prefer to call them, are simply inserted into the pre-cut slits on the underside of the collars of certain shirts, usually of a cut-away persuasion. Shirt-makers usually provide inferior plastic versions, so these silver ones would undoubtedly provide greater rigidity, ensuring prolonged sartorial elegance.
JimJam:
I believe if Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard were NOW to step in to Tiffany’s – THIS is what they’d plump for
Brad:
What a fantastic idea. I could really go for those. I tend to lose the plastic collar stays all the time and buy more cheap replacements. I know that if I had a nice pair like that i would take care of them.
all the best,
Brad @ http://www.smalltimecrooks.wordpress.com
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