That little loop on the back of a man's shirt? What's it for?

It’s just a second way of hanging it if you don’t have a coat-hanger handy.

@anon Seriously? Or is this a guess. I’ve always wondered this. GQ!

It’s for dragging him off the battlefield when he is wounded and can’t walk for himself.

Its called a locker loop, and it was designed so you can hang them up on a locker hook. :)

I think seriously, haha…
I’m a girl, but I’ve got loops in some of my nicer shirts and coats. They’re on the inside, but they’re definately for ease of hanging… and for not going to my closet and finding all my clothes on the ground.

The leash.

If you didn’t have that loop and found yourself in a position where you didn’t have a coat hanger, a shirt is very unlikely to stay on a peg and nobody wants their clothes on the floor..

Just don’t look at my floor

Just another way of hanging the shirt.

Thanks everyone. It seems so simple, I was certain it had to be more complicated than that. :)

Well, we have avoided mentioning the multidimensional wormhole lever up until now…

@delirium
Haha yeah, that might be a good thing to explain to him now, so he doesn’t mix it up with the optional anti-gravity cufflink :P

@delirium this is the same wormhole in the back of my washing-machine, where half my socks disappear?

We can’t speak of that one. Bad things happen if you speak of the terrible all knowing washing-machine womlakdasdfjgkkkkklllllsdfajklsdfsjgk; AAAAAaaaaaaauuuuuuuuughhhhhhhhhh….... poof

I like that @delirium had the good grace to report on her progress into the bowels of the sock-nomster as she went.

All in the name of scientific inquiry!

I like to believe that in the near future the clothes monopolies intend to invest hugely in a new system of public transport referred to formally as “Hook ‘n’ Heli” wherein a helicoptor flies overhead and dangles a long rope with a hook attached to the end near your person, grabs you by the shirt loop and takes you to wherever you desire.

@Nially_Bob
That has to happen.

when I was in school all the kids would call them “fag tags” – don’t ask me why, i don’t know

@Nially_Bob: That’s called the “Fulton Skyhook”, used by Army since the 60’s.

When I was a school kid in the 60’s, they were for tearing off as your sneaked up behind someone.

If you tear it off you have 5 seconds until your shirt explodes

You hang bells from it so the kid with cooties can’t sneak up on you.

@stranger_in_a_strange_land Bah! The militairy are always ruining my ideas. First the hotdog stand business plan in Vietnam and now this…
(Very interesting though. I’m not much of a plane enthusiast but I adore bizarrely unique devices so will be certain to read around said “Skyhook” when I next get the chance.)

@Nially Bob: It used a helium balloon, a body harness and a hook on the nose of a C-130. What a ride!!

I hope I’m not being too rude when I say I think if you can manipulate a laptop you could have figured that out.

Nothing these days. A long time ago people wore clothes a couple of days before laundering and men used a valet to hang their clothes on to wear the next day. The shirt was hung on a hook on the valet and there was a place for a jacket and pants, thus the shirt hook. The better shirts still add the hook but it’s for style rather than function.

@thriftymaid Thanks. I figured it was something historical.

I just read some where else that it was used to hold the bow tie “The loop also ensures that the bow tie will not come unraveled while being worn. If a shirt has a loop, the bow tie should be put through the loop before it is tied.”