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Topic: British Formal Shirts

mariner
First Class Passenger
Member # 2725

posted 03-03-2002 12:05 AM

I'm hoping some of the UK posters can help.

I purchased a British-made formal shirt. It has an opening on the left breast. What is the purpose of this? The shirt cost 100 pnds and for the likes of me, I can't figure out why there's an opening.

Any help would be appreciated just to satisfy that I wasnt taken.

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 03-03-2002 04:22 AM

Opening? Do you mean a breast pocket?

100 pounds is a very expensive shirt! Even today I can buy a suit for that! My formal shirst cost 20-30 ponds max...but then I'm mean!

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Colin
First Class Passenger
Member # 1676

posted 03-03-2002 05:05 AM

Sorry Mariner,

I have several formal shirts and none of them have anything like this. Also none of them have breast pockets, Malcolm.

What sort of opening? A slit? Vertical or horizontal?

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 03-03-2002 05:14 AM

Curious..none of the one's I've seen have. Maybe there was a hole in the fabric, they tidied the edges and called it an air vent

No idea, but tell us what the opening is like [manufacturer too] and I'll ask my bro in law who is 'in the business', so should know.

Pam

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toobuckets
First Class Passenger
Member # 1238

posted 03-03-2002 10:23 AM

I think you were taken.

Its a ladies dress shirt specially designed for those that have right handed escorts.

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 03-03-2002 12:18 PM

toobuckets!!!!!!!!

Mariner, my BIL says:-

It is probably a "design feature" of the shirt. Designers tend to add such features to make their design unique!!

Not sure if he's right, but does seem an odd things to have.

Pam

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 03-03-2002 12:58 PM

Mariner, it has just occurred to me that the value of all the shirts that I own, added together, probably do not add up to £100!

Mind you none of them have splits in!

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 03-03-2002 01:02 PM

Mariner, do you normally live in T-shirts?

Is this your first real shirt?

Does the split go down the front?

Are there buttons on one side and button-holes on the other side?

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 03-03-2002 01:17 PM

quote:
Originally posted by toobuckets:
I think you were taken. Its a ladies dress shirt...

Mariner, is it Pink by any chance?

quote:
Originally posted by mariner:
It has an opening on the left breast. What is the purpose of this?

Could it be designed for nursing mothers?

Maybe it's just torn?

Have you worn it?

Have you put on a lot of weight recently?

[ 03-03-2002: Message edited by: Malcolm @ cruisepage ]

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mariner
First Class Passenger
Member # 2725

posted 03-03-2002 02:20 PM

It was designed for Brooks Bros, so the original manufacturer is unknown. Most of my other formal shirts are American, except for one from Sweden. None have this feature.

It clearly is designed. After I had it laundered, I thought the cleaners had ripped a seam pressing it. Close examination showed that's not the case.

It is a five-inch verticle slit that starts just below the left arm pit. My braces cover it up and it provides some ventilation when I take the jacket off. I better not put any weight on, or there will be a gaping hole on the left side!

100 pnds is not a lot of money for a quality shirt in the states. Pink is a bargain for us at Heathrow duty-free.

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gohaze
First Class Passenger
Member # 586

posted 03-03-2002 04:39 PM

For someone in the security business that has to wear a shoulder holster..that way the harness is under the shirt.
...peter

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 03-03-2002 05:56 PM

I think Gohaze is right if it's that big under the arm. I was imagining an inch or so in the front. Now security might want to know why you own such a shirt..LOL

Pam

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mariner
First Class Passenger
Member # 2725

posted 03-03-2002 06:05 PM

Good God!

If I were packing heat, I don't think I would want to grab it from beneath my armpit.

I'm beginning to think there was some kind of defect that they gladly sold to the Americans!

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gohaze
First Class Passenger
Member # 586

posted 03-03-2002 06:31 PM

Being under the left arm was the give-away for a right hand draw. If you were wearing a "bum-freezer" you couldn't wear it at your back. Looks like you got a special order by mistake.
...peter

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PamM
First Class Passenger
Member # 2127

posted 03-03-2002 06:44 PM

Mariner, you can check out Pinks website from the main BAA airports shopping site, and Brooks have a site. I can't see anything on either, except a striped nightshirt, that has side vents

email them from the site and ask...they might want it back!

Pam

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mariner
First Class Passenger
Member # 2725

posted 03-03-2002 07:57 PM

Thanks for the effort. I think I like the idea that it was intended for a female better (a 42-inch chest, wow).

I know it's not on Pink site. I'll e-mail Brooks.

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Katie O'Girl
First Class Passenger
Member # 2704

posted 03-04-2002 04:10 AM

It definately sounds like a flaw in the manufacturing. I've never seen such a thing except in the case of a repaired tear, etc.
I know what you mean about the price of shirts. I've bought Tom a few shirts for $100 in America and at THAT price you need to have a decent one with no flaws. Take it back and complain.

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