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HOMEOUR SHIRT MAKING HERITAGEOUR SHIRT MAKING HERITAGEIn 1940, in the midst of the Second World War, Isaak Donner and Frank Myers, set up the Wakefield Shirt Company to produce quality men’s shirts from a small, fourth floor, corner room of a building in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. With cotton supplies in famine through the war and only delicate viscose rayon materials available, the company decided to use this material to make blouses for those women of Britain performing the tasks in factories, previously held by men who had been sent off to fight the war.HeritageA REVOLUTION IN SHIRT MAKINGBy 1946, we had taken over the entire building transforming the space into a vast shirt manufacturing facility, becoming a key player in the men’s shirt market. Having identified that the majority of men returning from the war had become accustomed to wearing loose-collar shirts rather than a stiff collar which would begin to look worn, Isaak Donner introduced a patent that his family had developed prior to the war, changing the shirt industry forever.
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The patented shirts were designed in a way that the collars could be easily removed by pulling on a tab sewn into the collar attaching seam. Each shirt came supplied with a complimentary replacement collar which could easily be sewn into the place of the removed collar. The new product was an instant success and as the shirts had two collars and in some cases two sets of cuffs, the shirts were called Double TWO shirts. The innovation became so successful that the company came to be known by the name of the shirts!POLYESTER…At the beginning of the 1950s Double TWO teamed up with ICI representative, Dr Rex Winfield, who had spent his time during the war developing a new man-made fibre, Terylene, which would eventually become known as Polyester. Working with Dr Winfield, we developed the fibre and produced the world’s first man-made fibre shirt. You can read more on this story here.