It also had plenty of hardware: capes and skirts were punctured with press studs, and several of Coca's new bag designs were draped with mixed chains.
|
|
Using parachute nylon left over from the war, and later PVC, she ran up short pants that closed with press-studs and cellulose-wadding pads to fit inside.
|
|
The "Newey" press studs changed from brass/copper to nickel-plated versions.
|
|
Olson, Bitter Victory, p. 329 On 23 April 1949, the Director of Naval Intelligence wrote to the Director of Victualling in regard to whether the clothing (3a) and carley float (3b) could have come from the Sydney. The Director of Naval Victualling replied to 3a in a hand written note that while a rating may have worn a blue boilersuit, suits with press studs "had never been adopted" by the navy. RAN officers purchased their own boilersuits which in white or brown with press studs.
|
|
Hungarian press-studs for dresses (1968). Modern snap fasteners were first patented by German inventor Heribert Bauer in 1885 as the "Federknopf-Verschluss", a novelty fastener for men's trousers. Some attribute the invention to Bertel Sanders, of Denmark. In 1886, Albert-Pierre Raymond, of Grenoble, also obtained a patent.
|
|
Press studs and small fragments of clothing were found in the coffin.Cole, The Loss of HMAS Sydney II, vol. 2, pp. 335–6 Following an autopsy and the taking of samples from the body for identification, the remains of the unknown sailor were reburied in the Commonwealth War Graves section in the Geraldton Cemetery with full military honours on 19 November 2008.
|
|
A preliminary examination in 1942 by the island's medical officer, Dr J. Scott Clark, found that the deceased was reported to have been a young adult male caucasoid who was tall by the standards of his time.Chase 2006 The remains were partly decomposed, the eyes, nose and all of the flesh from the right arm were missing and believed to have been consumed by fish or birds.Olson, Bitter Victory, pp. 328–9 According to the Harbour Master, Captain J. R. Smith, the body was clothed in a blue boilersuit which had been bleached white by exposure, with four plain press studs from neck to waist.
|
|
Roy Rogers wearing Western shirt with pearl snaps Press studs were worn by rodeo cowboys from the 1930s onwards, because these could be quickly removed if, in the event of a fall, the shirt became snagged in the saddle. Pearl snaps entered American mainstream Western fashion during the 1950s, when singing cowboys like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers incorporated them into their embroidered and fringed stage shirts. The most desirable shirts were unique creations tailored by Nudie Cohn or Rodeo Ben, but commercially produced Western clothing could be purchased from companies like Wrangler, Levi Strauss, Panhandle Slim, Rockmount Ranch Wear, H Bar C, or Roper.100 years of Western wear Due to the popularity of Spaghetti Westerns, cowboy shirts with oversized collars were widely worn by teenagers and young adults from the mid 1960s until the early 1980s.
|
|