Expandable and flexible shirt collar stand and shirt with same

A shirt comprising:

• a collar stand attached to a shirt body,
• wherein said collar stand comprises an inner piece and an outer piece, and wherein at least one of the inner piece and the outer piece is formed from a self-fabric fused with a fusible substrate, and
• wherein the self-fabric comprises a shirting fabric with stretch, and wherein the self-fabric is selected from:
• cotton, poly-cotton, linen, a compacted woven material, and a compacted knit material,
• wherein the collar stand has stretch and recovery properties in at least two non-laterally-opposing directions thereof, and wherein
• the collar stand has greater stretch in one of said at least two non-laterally-opposing directions than in other of said non-laterally-opposing directions, and wherein
• said fusible substrate has stretch, and
• wherein at least a portion of said shirt body is sewn between said inner piece and said outer piece of said collar stand along a length dimension of said collar stand, and wherein
• at least some recovery properties of the collar stand are provided by the fusible substrate.

A shirt comprising:

• a shirt body;
• and
• a collar stand attached to the shirt body,
• wherein said collar stand comprises an inner piece and an outer piece, and wherein at least one of the inner piece and the outer piece is formed from a self-fabric fused with a fusible substrate, and
• wherein the self-fabric has stretch and is selected from:
• cotton, poly-cotton, linen, a compacted woven, and a compacted knit material, and
• wherein the collar stand has stretch and recovery properties in at least two non-laterally-opposing directions thereof, and
• wherein said fusible substrate controls stretch and recovery properties of said collar stand, and
• wherein at least a portion of said shirt body is sewn between said inner piece and said outer piece of said collar stand along a length dimension of said collar stand.

A shirt comprising:

• a collar stand comprising an inner piece and an outer piece, wherein
• at least one of the inner piece and the outer piece is formed from a self-fabric having stretch and fused with a fusible substrate, wherein
• the collar stand has stretch and recovery properties in at least two non-laterally opposing directions thereof, and wherein at least some recovery properties of the collar stand are provided by the fusible substrate, and wherein
• the self-fabric used for the at least one of the inner piece and the outer piece has stretch imposed by prior compaction, and wherein
• said fusible substrate gives memory to said collar stand.