You might already know that the buttons on suit jacket sleeves have a surprisingly medical past, or that the teeny-tiny pockets on the front of jeans were actually for timepieces. The “V” under the ...

You’ve probably noticed it before: that tiny strip of fabric stitched into the upper back of a button-down. It sits right between the shoulders, usually just below the collar, and it’s one of those ...

If you picked up a button-down shirt the last time you were at the Neiman Marcus in Dallas or Belk in Charlotte, you may have noticed that there’s a tiny fabric loop on the back of the shirt, below ...

These extra pieces of fabric sit right where the pleat meets the yoke in the center of the back — but why? They first appeared on shirts by the menswear brand GANT in the 1960s and were named "locker ...