Stratton Collar by Ide. The unusual looking curved extension on the wearers left side of the collar front helps to lock the collar into position which keeps it from bending with the wearer’s motion and pinching the skin of the neck or distorting the intended shape of the collar.
Stratton Collar by Ide
You can reproduce this collar using these scans as a pattern:
This starched collar is in a style so basic it might be from anywhere from 1890-1935, but it includes an interesting feature from which I will, with continued research, probably be able to “date” it more narrowly: The collar includes a stamp with a laundry directions to “IRON FRONT WITH ROLL” which following makes for an unusual top view.
Front with roll
As you can see the front section gets wider towards the front, which likely would make room for larger tie knots or the apparatus of a clip on tie. This feature is not part of the pattern of the sewn collar, but is part of the laundry starching process, (which any wearer might request as a special starching variation for any fold collar if that was the way they liked it) but the collar having the laundry preference stamped upon it is unusual, as is the example of having the collar survive with the starching style still intact on it.
Stamp on the collarTop view of the front
You can make a collar pattern using these scans of the collar laid flat:
The Chester collar is a very high stand collar with rounded corners and curve at the base that can cause a mild flare at top, depending how well it fits at the neck.
You can reproduce the collar based on these scans:
This too can be reproduced by printing out the scan of the two halves of this collar onto an 8.5×11 piece of paper and adjusting the overlap of the pieces to the correct neck size you want for making a pattern.
