dickie

     

A ickey (alternately written as dickie or dicky; sometimes known as a tuxedo front or tux front) is a type of false shirt-front - originally known as a detachable bosom - designed to be worn with a tuxedo or men's white tie, usually attached to the collar and then tucked into the waistcoat or cummerbund. The rigid plastic dickey came into fashion in the latter years of the 19th century, and was one of the first successful commercial applications of celluloid.

Trivia about dickie

  • Nixon might have found one of these detachable shirt fronts tricky to wear
  • It can be a man's detachable shirt front or a child's bib

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