The Curious Case of the Collar Button
NOTE/DISCLAIMER: Collar button in this part of the world refers to the shirt's top button. Also, ties can be wore without collar buttons, ask YouTube.
The collar button despite being an utterly useless thing to exist on the planet has never faced an existential crisis. It is neither useful nor attractive but still, it somehow continues to survive. It would have indeed felt like an endangered species when the collarless tees came up on the market but that hasn't stopped the buck.
A little bit of history explains a lot about the birth of this once great now pointless invention, in the mid-nineteenth century, humans didn't care to bathe or wash their clothes as much as we do now, but this accumulated a lot of dust on their collars, obviously, so they had only detachable collars which were switched daily and can be made possible only with the help of collar buttons. But now the collars form part of the shirt, yet this has been still around, a perfect example of the proverb - old habits die hard, two centuries is too much though.
From Manchester to Dhaka to Guangzhou, textile industries has shifted across continents over the centuries, we've also come a long way from sewing to let a machine do all the stuff, technological advances have been many in the industry, but nothing, nothing seems to stop the collar button's dominance at the top.
I only know two people who wear the collar button, one is my friend Pappu, not the Delhi based blue blood, this one is in Mumbai and he buttons it only to look good on pics, the other one is a fictional character - Sheldon Cooper in Young Sheldon, we all know how he turned out to be, not the sense of humour or sexism, I meant the dressing sense, ditched the shirts with collar buttons permanently.
The collar button also has a few superpowers, your washing machine that does a 1,200 rpm and is capable of tearing anything and removing any button, yet somehow can do absolutely nothing when it comes to the collar button, the strong build and the willpower to stay in top position despite doing absolutely nothing useful over the years only reminds me of politicians.
A little bit of history explains a lot about the birth of this once great now pointless invention, in the mid-nineteenth century, humans didn't care to bathe or wash their clothes as much as we do now, but this accumulated a lot of dust on their collars, obviously, so they had only detachable collars which were switched daily and can be made possible only with the help of collar buttons. But now the collars form part of the shirt, yet this has been still around, a perfect example of the proverb - old habits die hard, two centuries is too much though.
From Manchester to Dhaka to Guangzhou, textile industries has shifted across continents over the centuries, we've also come a long way from sewing to let a machine do all the stuff, technological advances have been many in the industry, but nothing, nothing seems to stop the collar button's dominance at the top.
I only know two people who wear the collar button, one is my friend Pappu, not the Delhi based blue blood, this one is in Mumbai and he buttons it only to look good on pics, the other one is a fictional character - Sheldon Cooper in Young Sheldon, we all know how he turned out to be, not the sense of humour or sexism, I meant the dressing sense, ditched the shirts with collar buttons permanently.
The collar button also has a few superpowers, your washing machine that does a 1,200 rpm and is capable of tearing anything and removing any button, yet somehow can do absolutely nothing when it comes to the collar button, the strong build and the willpower to stay in top position despite doing absolutely nothing useful over the years only reminds me of politicians.
Interesting observation ��
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