Inbuilt collars

Remember back in the old days - before we lived the way we live today - when you had to buy a shirt and a jumper separately? What an odd age!

That's if you wanted to wear a jumper with a shirt under it of course. This is a very difficult thing to pull off without looking preppy and foppish and appalling. It's not impossible but it's definitely tricky and generally not recommended.

But you don't have to do that any more. You'd be hard pushed to do it even if you wanted to. Because they've solved the problem. Nowadays when you buy a jumper it comes with an inbuilt shirt. Not a whole shirt, mind you, just the visible bits around the collar. 

The reverse doesn't apply of course as if you bought a shirt with an inbuilt jumper then the whole jumper would be visible and only the visible bits around the collar of the shirt would be, er, visible. 

[thinks...]

Hold on that's just the same thing. Whichever way you cut it you get a jumper with little more than a suggestion of a shirt underneath.

Anyway, they've solved that centuries old separate jumper/shirt problem for us. 

Thanks Goodness for they. I know I couldn't have waited a second longer.