#tactleneck

Love stuff like this: 1970s interlocking G’s Gucci cashmere and silk rollneck, for sale at https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-70s-Gucci-Vintage-Cashmere-Turtleneck-Sweater-in-blue/193361430532

More outtakes from taking photos for my book. Realized I miss @mlshirtmaker57 #swansongsrjdm #bespoke #grandemesure #tactleneck #shirtmaker https://www.instagram.com/p/CRZC3MILAY0/?utm_medium=tumblr

When fashion history books talk about Turnbull & Asser inventing a turtleneck, this is what they mean.  In the late 1960s Lord Snowdon and a few other fashionable Londoners took to wearing formal shirts (that is, shirts to be worn with a tuxedo) that had a turtleneck collar and which closed in the back.  Those original models were in silk and required a second person (ie a valet) to close them for the wearer. It was in a shirt like that that David Frost and Lord Snowdon were refused entry to a Manhattan club for being tieless. In the 1970s, it looks like T&A created an easier-to-wear ready-to-wear version that zipped up the back and had a little pull so that the wearer could close it. This one was in red cotton rather than ivory silk and was made for the defunct New York store Bonwit Teller.  I prefer my own #tactleneck.

Vogue, 1931: Hilditch & Key Paris tuxedo accessories and “Russian”-style golf shirt that buttons up the shoulder and the side of the collar, like my formal tactleneck. From the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

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Tactleneck awaits…

h/t @nomanwalksalone for coincidence with the review of the Turnbull and Asser book.