Shirt Studs
Related Terms: Gandalf, The Old Took
Small detachable "buttons" used to attach loose collars to shirts and to fasten stiff starched fronts. Universal before the advent of attached collars, and still used in formal dress-shirts.
Studs were notoriously difficult to fasten, but had a knack of unfastening themselves, and being small were easily lost under beds, furniture and down cracks in floorboards. It is said that Gandalf gave the Old Took a set of diamond studs that fastened themselves and only came undone when ordered to do so.
Studs were notoriously difficult to fasten, but had a knack of unfastening themselves, and being small were easily lost under beds, furniture and down cracks in floorboards. It is said that Gandalf gave the Old Took a set of diamond studs that fastened themselves and only came undone when ordered to do so.
Encyclopedia entry originally written by cirdaneth