Quote Originally Posted by MacLowlife View Post
Yesterday the postman brought me two shirts, clearly stored for a while after laundering many long years ago. They are of the stiff front, button-up-the-back, detached collar variety. I am sure somebody knows where to buy these new, but I doubt I could afford them. One came from Rogers, Peet, of NY & Boston. Anybody know how long they have been gone?
Sadly, the formal dress shirt has not been commercially available since, at least, the early to mid-1980s. Even custom shirt and high-end makers in the UK such as Budd and New & Lingwood are unable to provide these shirts at any thing approaching a realistic price (GBP 300+ strikes me as a "we really can't be bothered" price). When these were available "off the shelf" from Brooks Brothers in the '80s they retailed for about $125.00.

These shirts are vastly superior to ordinary dress shirts as the fronts stay flat when seated, with no gapping at the placket to expose the tee-shirt promoting your local fishing tackle emporium; and, of course, no chance of one's Order of the Alaskan Sled Dogs becoming hung up in one's shirt front whilst waltzing with a dowager duchess.

Perhaps we can encourage CMcG to find a custom shirt maker in the Orient who would be able to supply such shirts to the disciminati?