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It has been printed many times since, so the design dates to 1970 rather than the scarf itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cartouche reads \u003cstrong\u003eLe Mors \"A LA CONÉTABLE.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e The care tag reads \u003cstrong\u003eFABRIQUÉ EN FRANCE \/ 100% SOIE\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eMADE IN FRANCE \/ 100% SILK \/ DRY CLEAN ONLY\u003c\/strong\u003e. The hem is hand rolled and rolled toward the front, which is the detail that matters on an Hermès carré.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e beautiful. No stains, no pulls, no spotting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e100% silk twill. Dry clean only. Keep perfume and deodorant off it, store rolled or loosely folded, away from light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of one. 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That is why a silk cable knit is rare and why this one still has its shape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrown heather with a green pony. The neck label reads \u003cstrong\u003ePolo by Ralph Lauren\u003c\/strong\u003e, with a separate \u003cstrong\u003e100% SILK\u003c\/strong\u003e content tag and \u003cstrong\u003eMADE IN HONG KONG\u003c\/strong\u003e on the care label, English only. Labelled \u003cstrong\u003eXL\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRalph Lauren began in 1967 with a rack of wide ties sold from a drawer in the Empire State Building, and the Polo name went onto a full menswear line the following year. The cable crewneck has been on the rail ever since, nearly always in cotton or lambswool. Silk is the version you seldom see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVintage. The Hong Kong label and the English-only care tag mark it as older production.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e good, with light pilling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeasurements to follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e100% silk. Hand wash per the label, dry flat, and store folded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eModern size:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fits like a modern Women's L or Men's L.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of one. 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The woven label reads \u003cstrong\u003eBUTWIN, The Champion of Jackets\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eMADE IN U.S.A.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eButwin Sportswear built varsity jackets in Minnesota from before mid-century, advertising nationally by 1948, and a patent for what became the classic varsity jacket was assigned to the company.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne honest note.\u003c\/strong\u003e This label reads \u003cstrong\u003eMinneapolis\u003c\/strong\u003e, while the federal registry lists Butwin at 5th \u0026amp; Wacouta Streets in \u003cstrong\u003eSaint Paul\u003c\/strong\u003e. Both cannot describe the same moment, so either the company moved or the labels changed. We would rather tell you that than pick the city that sounds better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUndated. American made, wool throughout, and no decade we can defend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e to follow, described in full.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWool. Dry clean. Broad hanger, away from moths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of one. 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Labelled size L, and it wears oversized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMadras is the summer cloth the American prep look borrowed from India and never gave back: loosely woven cotton, meant to bleed and soften with washing rather than stay put. It is named for the port on India's east coast, now Chennai, where it was woven on hand looms and dyed with vegetable colours that ran in the wash. In the 1960s American shops stopped apologising for that and sold it as bleeding madras, with the fault printed on the ticket as the feature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e good used condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeasurements to follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCotton. Machine wash cold, tumble low.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eModern size:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fits like a modern Women's M or Men's S.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of one. 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The green brand label at the fly reads \u003cstrong\u003ePOLO COUNTRY \/ AUTHENTIC DRY GOODS \/ EST 1967 \/ RALPH LAUREN \/ MADE IN U.S.A.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMade in U.S.A. appears twice, on the brand label and again on the size tag. That is a genuine origin claim rather than a corporate address, and it is what brackets these to the Polo Country years before production went offshore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChino is the cloth the army brought home: a cotton twill bought by way of China for khaki uniforms, named for where it came from, and carried onto American campuses after 1945 by men on the G.I. Bill. The pleated version is what Ralph Lauren meant when the label says dry goods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: good. Twill sound, colour even. Light fraying at the raw inner seam allowances, which is how they were built rather than damage. Waistband and buttonhole intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeasured flat, in inches: waist 32, hips 42, inseam 6.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e100% cotton chino. Machine wash cold, tumble low.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eModern size:\u003c\/strong\u003e 32 x 6 (waist x inseam, in inches).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of one. Sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo returns - as is.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polo Country","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44308134395991,"sku":"MT-IVY-005","price":78.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0034\/8692\/files\/DSCF8965.jpg?v=1792608119"},{"product_id":"j-press-oxford-button-down-japanese-market-size-s","title":"Vintage J. Press Oxford Button-Down, Japanese Market","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York, New Haven, since 1902. 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The second label reads CHAMPION PRODUCTS INC. \/ ROCHESTER, N.Y. \/ MADE IN U.S.A., and Champion was a Rochester company until Sara Lee bought it in 1989. And the construction: single stitch at hem and sleeve puts it pre-1990s, a tubular body with no side seams puts it pre-late-1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe bought it described as 1970s and as a football jersey. Neither is right. The blue-bar label is the 1980s tag, and a football jersey carries its number twice - this carries it once, on a tee body. It is a three-quarter-sleeve crewneck with a yoked front, which is the scarcer and better shape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e100% cotton. DO NOT IRON LETTERS on the care label, which is the period wording for a heavy applied print. RN 26094 recorded verbatim and treated as unverified.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: worn, with holes, and that is why it is here. Count and photographs to follow. 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The lining is the original acetate, which is what gives that peach its particular liquid sheen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: good, with five very small stains on the coat.\u003c\/strong\u003e Everything else is sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLength 44.5 in. Pit to pit 18 in. Waist 33 in. Hips 39 in. Shoulder 15.5 in. Sleeve 23 in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDry clean only, and the house label is emphatic: any other process needs the coat reproofed. Acetate lining splits along fold lines with age, so keep acetone away from it and hang it broad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eModern size:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fits like a modern Women's XS or Men's XS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of one. 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The neck label reads M ADULT, from the years when sizes were split between adults and children rather than assumed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVelva Sheen of Cincinnati, Ohio, one of the American houses that made the collegiate sweatshirt what it is. The gold shield label reads CINCINNATI OHIO, U.S.A.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e92% cotton and 8% acrylic, which is a period sweatshirt blend rather than a modern poly-heavy fleece. DO NOT IRON DESIGN on the care tag, confirming an applied print.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHOLY INNOCENTS SCHOOL in an arch across navy. A real school somewhere, and somebody's, which is most of the reason to want it. We have not attached a city or a diocese, because Holy Innocents is a common parish-school name across many states and nothing on the garment narrows it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: good. Collar ribbing with recovery and no stretch. Fleece interior intact and lofty. Print reads clean and unbroken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWash cold inside out, tumble low.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of one. Sold as-is and final.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Velva Sheen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44308136460375,"sku":"MT-TR-087","price":98.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0034\/8692\/files\/velva-sheen-sweatshirt-velva-sheen-holy-innocents-school-sweatshirt-single-stitch-m-adult-velva-sheen-holy-innocents-school-sweatshirt-m-mille-1259880105.jpg?v=1790262550"},{"product_id":"coca-cola-rugby-shirt-blue-and-navy-size-s","title":"Vintage Coca-Cola Rugby Shirt - Blue and White","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor about two years in the mid eighties Coca-Cola made clothes, and then stopped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe line launched in 1985 with Murjani, designed by Tommy Hilfiger before most people knew the name, and burned out after roughly two years. That short run is the reason these are collected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColour-blocked cotton jersey in blue and navy, cream twill collar and placket with the Coca-Cola logo across it, cream two-hole buttons. The proper heavy rugby build.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDated to about 1985 to 1987 on the trade history and on first-hand memory: Michelle wore a pair of these to the first day of seventh grade in autumn 1987, with white trousers cuffed at the ankle, Bass boat shoes and a Liz Claiborne bag.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne note on origin, since it comes up. Murjani sourced globally and the made-in rule that matters on Ralph Lauren does not transfer to this label. Origin rules are brand-specific and we check whose garment it is before applying one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: good. Light wear at the collar fold, cloth sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e100% cotton jersey. Wash cold, hang to dry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of one. 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English manufacture is the good tier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorth knowing against the Burberrys shirt on this same rail, which reads MADE IN U.S.A.: same house, same era, two different manufacturing realities. The coats stayed English and the dress shirts did not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCotton gabardine, the cloth the house invented. Cuff straps present. No belt and no belt loops.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: shell clean and even. The lining hem is a raw, fraying cut edge finished with a white overlock that matches nothing, so something inside has been worked on. That will be named plainly once we know what.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCotton gabardine, Nova check lining. Dry clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of one. 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They made military uniforms in the First World War before taking on the All Blacks kit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanterbury later made shirts in a good many countries; this one carries the New Zealand label.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilt for the game and not the look of it: heavy cloth, a rubber-buttoned placket that will not come away in a scrum, and a twill collar stiff enough to stand up on its own. That is why rugby shirts read as clothing rather than as sportswear thirty years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e52% cotton, 48% polyester. Single stitch, which puts it before the mid-nineties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeasured flat, in inches: chest 38, length 26, sleeve 21, shoulder 19. Tagged 40, and it measures under that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: great, with one exception.\u003c\/strong\u003e A button is missing from the placket. 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