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Shirt Self-Education: Collar, Chapter 3
Friday, March 17, 2006
"When we left our hero yesterday, she was blithely ripping along on the collar band of her husband's old shirt..."
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Here we have the collar, completely detached, above the inner band. The outer band is still attached to the shirt--not because it was sewn that way, but because I had seen everything I needed to see about it's construction without further ripping there...
After that, I ripped the topstitching off the collar and turned it inside out so that I could see be interfacing and seams better.
The outer collar has no interfacing, and I don't really see anything remarkable about it. The seam allowances are about 1/4" and, surprisingly, appear to have been trimmed lightly at the points.
The inner collar is more interesting.
- There are two layers of *very* stiff woven fusible in the collar.
- The layers are offset so that one layer extends to the upper seam allowance, and the other into the neck edge seam allowance.
- The plastic collar stay appears to be stitched onto a scrap, then caught into the seams of the collar. I can imagine a stay like this being damaged in the dryer, although this one obviously wasn't.