Let's take them out and have a look. You would think this would be an easy task.
*Open box. Good luck, it is glued down! I think they used rubber cement.
*Take shirt out. Try this without getting your hand stuck to the rubber cement.
*Remove interior plastic collar - easy enough.
*Slide band that is around tie and shirt off - oh wait, the tie is threaded through the band on the back.
*Unthread tie- but first, it is tacked to the shirt at the point of the tie with one of those plastic thingies that stores use to attach price tags to clothing. Don't rip the tie pulling it off. Got it.
*Hidden underneath the tie, there is a metal clip holding all the layers of the tie together - remove it. This is a weird clip thing, I wonder if I should save it for anything else, maybe some kind of paper clip? NO! I am trying to declutter, chuck it!
*Now, unthread tie from band.
*Remove band from shirt.
*Tie is still attached to shirt at neck. Remove the plastic "u" clip that is holding the tie to look lie it is tied.
*Remove rubber band that is holding tie on around the collar. Tie is off!!!
*Plastic section around top button - remove. OUCH!
*BTW, there is a pin through the shirt directly above top button. Carefully remove pin.
*Get a bandage and wrap finger so blood doesn't smear all over new shirt.
*Remove cardboard underneath collar.
*Carefully remove 2 more pins, one on each shoulder, that are pinning shirt to cardboard.
*2 more plastic tag attachers on back of shirt at the bottom. Should I get the scissors? Nah, I've gotten this far, I'll just be careful. Wow, those sure leave a nice hole in the shirt - hope they iron out.
*Open up shirt.
*One more tag attachers on back holding shoulders together.
*Remove cardboard middle.
and. . .
and. . .
and. . .
any more? NO!
The shirt is out of packaging!
So, 10 minutes and one bandage later, it took 19 steps to get a shirt and tie out of packaging! It better fit! If it doesn't, too bad, he is going to wear it!
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