Mens Vintage Chinese Grandad Collar Waistcoat Retro Indian Nehru Beatle

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Rumour would have it that the grandad shirt's origins may well have only just predated your own grandfather. On the factory floor in the late 1920s, with flapping ties a safety hazard around heavy machinery, blue-collar workers were said to cut off the collars of their shirts. No wonder, then, that the style is particularly favoured among workwear brands today.

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The Grandad shirt's origin is just over the Atlantic Ocean at New York in 1927. When a lady named Hannah Montague cut the collar off her husband’s shirt to wash it separately and so was born the detachable collar. As I mentioned previously, the Grandad shirt is historically very formal. Lots of different detachable collar styles were available including the 1920's classics of the Pin Collar or the Tab collar, no pioneered by the menswear brand Hawkins & Shepherd. Without the detachable collar buttoned in, the shirt has a plain banded type of collar, which gave birth to the grandad collar you'll find today.