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My dumb question for the day. Will one of the jaded boulevardiers hereabouts please rouse himself and treat me to an elementary lesson in how to affix one of these little devils? Whenever and however I try to stick the collar tab with the end of my safety-pin-like device either I fail utterly to achieve symmetry, or I just plain can't penetrate the collar material at all. And the obstructive neckwear, tied or not, adds immeasurably to my distress.

If I want evidence of my inadequacy, I can go to the boudoir. I don't need to be humiliated in the dressing room too.

I suppose I could ask the alterations man to sew little holes in the tabs (giving me something to aim at!), but short of that rather drastic notion, I am stumped.

go through the collar, either piercing the fabric or inserted through holes already made in the collar by the shirtmaker. Tab collars are held together by collar studs, not collar pins.

Proper tools for proper tasks, and you no longer will need to feel inadequate.

The above reply almost makes sense to me.

I can (usually) penetrate the collar; I just can't align the holes on both tabs ("wings"?). Am I the only guy who has this problem?

There is a particular breed that can be had which slides onto the collar, rather than piercing through it. I know that Ralph Lauren does them, they can be had elsewhere, also, and less expensively. Otherwise, an eyelet shirt should be deployed, with small holes stiched parallel on each side. To do otherwise would both be messy and damaging to the shirt, no?

In some sort of trick of fate, the television is playing the sitcom "Spin City" right now, and the mayor is wearing a pin of the very type I've decribed, with a sort of loop at the end of either arm.

Best,

Eden

A shirt collar with eyelets are what you need. Most shirtmakers can do them in a point, rounded (club), or even a curved collar.

Best Regards,

Cufflink79

Thanks to all. I think the message has sunk in.