Today, 30 tiny, powerful magnets and 24 steel collar stays, in four different lengths, will arrive via Amazon Prime.
I was mesmerized last week when my visiting son demonstrated how collar stays work. I suddenly had visions of all my wrinkled, misaligned, and otherwise strange looking, collars standing to attention, as they magically appeared perfect.
I can't wait to see what the collars look like once the small magnets hold the collars in any positions I choose. I envision myself wearing shirts that I have shunned for years — all because the collars appear shlumpy.
It will be a project just to decide which of my shirts to choose. Several shirts do not have slips into which to insert the collar stays. I will have to operate on those shirts to get the collar stays to stay.
Postman Rang Only Once
The package arrived 30 minutes ago. It was fun! I did six shirts, and used 12 of my 24 metal collar stays. The dress shirts had openings in the undersides of the collars into which I placed the metal stays. The sport shirts did not have openings, so I decided to use the stickiest tape in town: carpet tape. I cut it thin, and it held the stays on the collars like magic. Next, I separated two tiny magnets from the group by sliding them off the stuck-together magnets, onto my desk. Looking into my closet’s mirror and placing the magnets inside my shirts to hold the collars in position, was cool. In most cases there was a definite snap as the tiny magnets made contact with the metal stays. On four of my magnet-placing attempts there was silence, and then the sounds of the magnets hitting the floor and scooting to the metal bottom railing of my closet: ding.
Now that the collars on my favorite shirts look sharp, the shirts, themselves, look relatively unkempt. I look forward to taking them to the cleaners for pressing. Won’t those shirts look sharp, once the collar stays are in place! Hey, my fifteen-dollar investment in collar stays and magnets might just turn me into a million-dollar-looker!
