subject: Choosing Between Collar Stays And Engraved Collar Stays [print this page] Choosing Between Collar Stays And Engraved Collar Stays
When you open the packet containing that nice new shirt and slip on that crisp new cotton material you can be sure that the collar will contain collar stays assuming the shirt is of good quality. Invariably with a new shirt the collar stay will be made of white or cream coloured plastic but did you know you can buy your own personal engraved collar stays?
There are collar stays and engraved collar stays. Which would you prefer? The engraved ones can be ordered with any name or message you like. The options are limitless. You may be a girl buying for your boyfriend a batch of twenty or twenty four collar stays so why not have them engraved with a saucy message for him to read. These engraved collar stays are usually made from metals such as steel, brass or gold finish and with imagination your design ideas are unlimited. Apart from messages which may be private to you both, you can just have your name engraved. Maybe you can think of a line from a book or poem which means something special to you. A memento of a special occasion, a remembrance of a moment known only to you two. Any silly thing will do, like the score from a world cup final in whatever his favourite sport, on the day his team won.
Plastic collar stays are produced in their tens, if not hundreds, of millions each year. If you don't believe that just try and work out how many shirts are sold around the world annually. It's a pretty difficult piece of research probably worth a doctorate if you can come up with a half way close to the truth answer. As an example, one world famous football club sells in excess of one million official replica football shirts each year. Their marketing people reckon 60% of the sales are overseas and that you can probably allow in excess of another one to two million counterfeit shirts being sold illegally. This is just one club and just one sport! Now try imagining the number of button down or collared shirts sold throughout the whole world and take a guess at the number of these that are quality enough to be produced with collar stays? Mind boggling isn't it? So now when you buy a new shirt you just remember that what you thought was a unique new shirt for the office with novel pattern and buttons and a discreet logo which tells everyone that you are a man of great taste and yet individuality; you have one problem: The plastic stays in that collar are exactly the same as those in millions of other shirts sold that day you bought yours. The answer is to treat yourself to your very own personal engraved collar stays and next time you open up a brand new shirt, take those plastic ones out straight away and insert your customised metal favourites. Collar stays and engraved collar stays, the choice is yours.
