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A collar stay, collar stick, collar bone (British English), collar tab (British English), collar stiffener, or collar stiff is a shirt accessory consisting of a smooth strip of rigid material, rounded at one end and pointed at the other, inserted into specially made pockets on the underside of a shirt collar to stabilize the collar's points ...
To miss stays is to fail in the attempt to go about; [4] if the vessel fails to go about, she is said to refuse stays. [3] In stays, or hove in stays, is the situation of a vessel when she is staying, or in the act of going about. [4] A vessel in bad trim, or lubberly-handled, is sure to be slack or loose in the stays: she may refuse stays ...
Schematic view of the bow of a ship, showing: A the martingale stay, B the dolphin striker and C the bobstay. Bows of HMS Victory: three parallel bobstays, separate dolphin-striker with martingale stays. A bobstay is a part of the rigging of a sailing boat or ship. Its purpose is to counteract the upward tension on the bowsprit from the jibs ...
Collar stay, a small rigid piece used to maintain the point of a shirt collar; Guy-wire, or stay, a metal cable used to support a tall structure, such as a radio mast; Stay cable, used to hold up a weight
However, this use reinforced the view among the populace that hook-and-loop was something with very limited utilitarian uses. The next major use hook-and-loop saw was with skiers, who saw the similarities between their outerwear and that of the astronauts, and thus saw the advantages of a suit that was easier to don and doff.
A collar pin (closely related to the collar bar and collar clip) is a piece of men's jewelry, which holds the two ends of a dress shirt collar together and passes underneath the knot of a necktie. Functioning in a similar way as a tabbed collar , it keeps the collar in place and lifts the knot to provide a more aesthetically pleasing arc to the ...
The two halves of a riveted leather snap fastener. The top half has a groove which "snaps" in place when "pressed" into the bottom half. A snap fastener, also called snap button, press button, [1] press stud, [1] press fastener, dome fastener, popper, snap and tich (or tich button), is a pair of interlocking discs, made out of a metal or plastic, commonly used in place of traditional buttons ...
Shirt stays are elastic straps that connect the bottom of a dress shirt to the socks or feet. [1] There are two main varieties: those that loop around the foot and those that clip onto the sock. All varieties have two clips at the top, one for the front and one for the back of the shirt.