SHIRTS.

North Otago Times, 2 December 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)

SHIRTS.

The onward march of civilisation has its obstacles. Shirts being made for man and not man for shirts, every time a man gets a new shjrt.or one comes back from the laundry the moral uplift needs the application of the safety brake and the emergency clutch to keep us from dropping into the cellar again. Shirts are made of various kinds of materials. After the sewing is finished they are left for a few hours in a- strong mixture of glue and concrete. This fastens the back to the bosom and sticks the sleeves together/ Buttonholes are then made in the neckband, and the band is then steep-1 ed in cement so that the buttonholes cannot be opened. The bosom is then adorned with buttons. These buttons are sewed on with one weak thready so that when you try to button the shirt, alter having' pried it apart with a paperknife and strong language, the buttons will fly away merrily. Shirts that are laundered arc always sent back with the lower button buttoned in, and all the buttonholes glued tight.

Dress shirts are made with, veneered bosoms, with little round holes where the studs are only supposed to be placed. These bosoms are absolutely inflexible, and the studs cannot be inserted without the aid of a sledge hammer, which is damaging to the disposition. Thd mart who will Invent a buttonhole shirt, which cannot be -starched in the neckband will earn a monument which will be Illuminated at night.-Chicago "Evening Post."