Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1920 — Soft Vs. Stiff Collars. [ARTICLE]

Soft Vs. Stiff Collars.

The movement started at a untversity to promote the uaeof soft collars as a means of fighting the high prices demanded by laundries will not exert, It was stated, any harmful effect o® the collar trade. The same profit and a llttie more, it was explained, applies to soft as to stiff collar®. The element of competition, however, is one that big concerns do not particularly like. Soft collars andsoft shirts, it seems, have always been easier to manufacture, and consequently encourage com. petition from small firms.