System and methodology for providing shirt collar support

#The subject disclosure generally relates to turndown collared shirts, and more specifically to a system and methodology for providing shirt collar support.

#By way of background concerning conventional turndown collared shirts, it is noted that such shirts often undesirably lose collar support. For instance, a turndown collared shirt that remains on a store shelf may quickly lose collar support over time. Indeed, in order to mitigate a loss of such support, manufacturers often package their shirts together with a plastic/cardboard insert wrapped around the collar band. This solution, however, is limited to preserving collar support prior to purchase since such inserts are not wearable. Moreover, since these inserts are not wearable, they are often discarded soon after a shirt is purchased. As a result, these shirts quickly lose collar support over time and after repeated use.

#To regain collar support after use, shirts may be pressed by professional dry cleaners. Such solution can be expensive though, and the stiffness of a recently pressed collar can quickly wear off during use. For example, even a recently pressed shirt collar may undesirably lose its shape and lay flat towards the end of a work day because of normal everyday movement, and as perspiration accumulates.

#Various non-limiting embodiments are further described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:

#FIG. 1 illustrates an exemplary turndown collared shirt without a collar support apparatus;

#FIG. 2 illustrates an exemplary a shaping device coupled to a turndown collared shirt in accordance with an aspect of the subject specification;

#As discussed in the background, turndown collared shirts often undesirably lose collar support. The various embodiments disclosed herein are directed towards overcoming these limitations via discrete and continuous collar support. For instance, embodiments directed towards a wearable shirt collar shaping device are disclosed, as well as embodiments encompassing methodologies to facilitate forming such devices. Embodiments directed towards a turndown collared shirt configured to be coupled with a shaping device are also disclosed.

#Turning now to FIG. 1, an exemplary turndown collared shirt without a collar support apparatus is shown. As illustrated, turndown collared shirt 100 includes collar point 110 and collar point 120, wherein spread 130 is defined as the distance between collar point 110 and collar point 120. To this end, it should be noted that spread 130 undesirably increases as turndown collared shirt 100 loses collar support. Moreover, as turndown collared shirt 100 loses collar support, each of collar point 110 and collar point 120 undesirably lay more flat.

#To overcome this limitation, a wearable shaping device is contemplated. In FIG. 2, an exemplary configuration of such shaping device is shown coupled to a turndown collared shirt in accordance with an embodiment. As illustrated, shaping device 220 is configured to wrap around collar band 210 of turndown collared shirt 200. Once wrapped around collar band 210, shaping device 220 provides discrete and continuous collar support to turndown collared shirt 200. In FIG. 3, an exemplary illustration of such support is provided. As illustrated, shaping device 320 discretely tucks beneath turndown collar 310 of turndown collared shirt 300 such that shaping device 320 is unnoticeable during use. Indeed, in an aspect, shaping device 320 is thus a wearable apparatus configured to continuously provide an “invisible” collar support, which prevents collar point 312 and collar point 314 from spreading beyond spread 316. In comparison, it is noted that spread 316 maintained by shaping device 320 is desirably shorter than spread 130 illustrated in FIG. 1, which does not include such shaping device.