These unobtrusive tools go with you everywhere, stay out of sight, and might just save your life one day.
Collar stays fit into pockets sewn into the underside of men’s dress shirts and are common across nearly all manufacturers and styles. The odds are you have several shirts with collar stay pockets hanging in your closet right now, even if you don’t realize it. Collar stays have always helped keep your collar points facing downward and looking sharp, and now they can serve as one more hidden tool in your toolkit.
Not only will this pair of custom-designed stays help keep your collar down, but they can also be bent into handcuff shims, useful on handcuffs from many different manufacturers.
Shims work by sliding between the ratchet and teeth of a handcuff rather than through the keyhole to quickly release the locking mechanism. Note: these shims will work only when handcuffs are single-locked.
Each pair of collar stay shims contains two different types of shims. The standard shim design works on Smith & Wesson, Chicago, Peerless, Safariland and countless other types of handcuffs.
The split pawl handcuff shim is capable of all of the same standard single-locked cuffs as well as higher-security anti-shim designs like the Hiatt-Thompson model handcuffs.
Once you’ve added these to your everyday carry kit you’ll forget they’re even there. Metal collar stays are a common clothing accessory and likely won’t draw a second notice, even when removed from your collar. The shims themselves are virtually invisible when not bent out. But if you wear them regularly, they’ll be there when you need them most.
