Collar Stay Multitools keep you in bottle openers on long flights
Dan Seitz There are many valid reasons to hate the TSA, an organization that strip searches little old ladies and offers you a choice between getting your nuts squeezed by some troll making $12 an hour or getting blasted with radiation by a device even scientists are a bit leery of getting into.
But the biggest minor pain in the ass is probably their refusal to let you bring a multitool on a plane, with or without a blade. Oh no! We might open the captain’s beer and drink it instead! We might loosen a screw! TERRORISM!
Fortunately, there’s one place the TSA doesn’t think to grope you: the collar.
Collar stays, for those not up on fashion, are little tabs of plastic that keep your collar pointy. Yes, these really exist and they came with your more expensive set of button-downs for work. Unless one poked you in the throat, you probably didn’t notice them.
Uncommon Goods looked at these useless little items and realized that they could turn them into something actually worthwhile, so they invented titanium multitool collar stays.
These aren’t going to replace the Swiss Army Knife you have on your keychain, necessarily: they only have a thread cutter, for example. But they also have a bottle opener, and both a flathead and a slotted head for tightening or loosening various screws. Even better, the titanium is incredibly light, less than an ounce: you won’t notice these are in your shirt until you need them.
There’s also the unimpeachable awesomeness of a group of people befuddled by a lack of a bottle opener, only for you to pull one out of your shirt collar like you’re James Bond, open their beer, and then steal their girlfriend because you’re the guy who had the foresight to bring a bottle opener hidden in your shirt, and they suck. Well worth the $30.
Titanium Multi-Tool Collar Stays [Uncommon Goods]
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