Catalog of mail order suits from 1935
You can use these collar scans to make a pattern to reproduce this collar:
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:
Also in my recent eBay purchase of a collar bag and 7 assorted Early 20th Century men’s linen starched detachable collars is an “Ancover” collar, somewhat similar to the “Amolak” previously posted. It too is clearly post 1899 because the Cluett name that is stamped is Cluett, Peabody & Co.
You can reproduce this type of collar making a pattern from one of these scans.
I recently purchased a small early 20th Century man’s collar bag on eBay with 7 collars still in it. It was an ordinary enough travel bag such as any middle class man might own in the 1890-1920 era, but unusually, the 7 collars were each a different style, with several different brands represented.
As I care about collecting different types of these collars, rather than the more expensive hobby of collecting the containers, it was a good deal. The Arrow Amolek was one of these.
This general style of collar was popular in the 1890s-1920s, but seems to be most popular in the mid 1890s and late 1910s.
However, the collar cannot be from the mid 1890s as the Cluett company was not called “Cluett, Peabody and Co.” until 1899, so it is a post-1899 collar.
However, I know what you really want is those handy collar scans which can be used to make collar patterns. This one you can use if you need the same size as the original and have a long-paper printer:
Or this one for making a collar to another size which can print on 8.5×11 paper:
Catalog of detachable collars and cuffs for women and children, along with small photos of collar making and collar starching workers. At this time Lion Brand was the oldest collar making trade mark in the US.
