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It has been printed many times since, so the design dates to 1970 rather than the scarf itself, and we would rather tell you that than guess.\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 was how the good chenille houses worked: the shop wrote the owner's name into the label before the sweater ever left.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSan Manuel was a copper town in Pinal County, Arizona. The mine closed. The school closed. The cardigan kept going.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e to follow. We will photograph and describe every mark before this one ships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWool. Store folded, never hung, and keep it away from anything with a moth hole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of one. 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The neck label is the older \u003cstrong\u003ePolo by Ralph Lauren\u003c\/strong\u003e form, and the content is \u003cstrong\u003e88% cotton, 12% linen\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cotton and linen fair isle is a summer-weight version of a winter pattern, which is an unusual thing to find. It is also why the care label says hand wash and lay flat rather than dry clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVintage, made in Hong Kong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e to follow, described in full.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHand wash cold, reshape, dry flat. Never hang it - cotton and linen knits grow at the shoulders.\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.\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\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e good used condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCotton. 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The blue-bar Champion label is the 1980s tag. 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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Small difference, and it is the kind of thing that tells you two sweaters on the same rail are not the same thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eButter yellow, size XL, navy polo player. Neck label reads Polo by Ralph Lauren with MADE IN HONG KONG at the right edge and a separate 100% COTTON tag. Hong Kong puts it in the older tier, 1980s into the mid 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe colour has not faded, which on a yellow cotton knit is worth saying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: to follow, described in full. Underarms and cuffs to be checked for greying, collar for stretch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote on size: a men's XL, which is an oversized piece on a woman and wants styling as one - sleeves pushed, over something narrow - rather than hanging flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e100% cotton. Hand wash cold, reshape, dry flat. Never hang a cotton knit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of one. 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A royal warrant is a legal instrument with dates attached rather than decoration. Hers voided on her death in 2002, and she was only styled that way from 1952.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe care symbols narrow it further. GINETEX launched the international care symbols in 1975 and the UK made them compulsory in 1974, so a coat carrying four of them cannot be earlier than the mid 1970s. Working bracket: about 1975 to 2002. We will not print a decade inside that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cloth is Aqua 5, permanently proofed and exclusive to the house, 67% polyester and 33% cotton. The lining is the original acetate, which is what gives that peach its particular liquid sheen.\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\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eModern size:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fits like a modern Women's XS or Men's XS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: good, with five very small stains on the coat.\u003c\/strong\u003e Checked in daylight and counted. Everything else is sound.\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\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 Navy","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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Edinburgh's dialling code became 0131 in April 1995, which dates the label before then.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack Watch is the dark green and navy sett of the Royal Highland Regiment, and the most sober of the tartans, which is why it has outlasted the rest in ordinary clothes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeasurements in inches: waist 24 to 27, adjustable on the straps; hips 30; length 17.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePure new wool, dry clean only. 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M\/L.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe label reads \u003cstrong\u003eMade in Scotland exclusively for The Edinburgh Woollen Mill\u003c\/strong\u003e, which is worth reading twice. Knitted in Scotland to their own order, in Shetland wool, at a time when that was still how it was done.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ground is a rust marl, and the banding runs through blue, lavender, cream, tan and sage. Fair Isle is named for one island in the Shetlands, and the pattern looks far harder than it is: only two colours are ever in play on any single row. That constraint is the whole trick, and it is why it can be knitted by hand at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShetland wool comes off a small northern sheep. It is light for its warmth, and it blooms slightly with wear rather than going flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA waistcoat does the thing a Fair Isle is best at - all the pattern across the chest, the sleeves left to the shirt underneath. 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Without it we would be selling an unnamed pair of Levi's.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFour marks, all agreeing.\u003c\/strong\u003e The \u003cstrong\u003e519-0217\u003c\/strong\u003e designation says straight leg and zip fly. The garment has a zip fly. The thigh measures 20 inches and the leg opening 14, which is a leg that narrows - a flare or a boot cut opens wider than the thigh, not tighter. And the hardware is a \u003cstrong\u003eTalon\u003c\/strong\u003e zipper, which is what Levi's ran before YKK took the market, on the \u003cstrong\u003eSF 207\u003c\/strong\u003e care label, the early-seventies form. An Orange Tab carrying a care label at all is 1971 or later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe three digits behind the care tag, 344, are the factory code.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn the Talon slider, stamped 42.\u003c\/strong\u003e That is a model number, not a year - these get sold as 1940s pairs on the strength of it, and they are not. We would rather tell you that than let you find out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrange Tab was Levi's fashion line rather than its workwear: the straights, the slims, the boot cuts and the flares. Red Tab got the 501.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSomebody took the waist in, and somebody let it back out.\u003c\/strong\u003e The alteration is unstitched now, so the waist has returned to its original width - the 25 inches above is the real measurement, not the altered one - but the needle holes are still there at the back, under where a belt sits. This is also where the waist tag went: on a pair of Levi's that label is sewn into the back waistband seam, which is the exact seam you open to take a waist in. The missing tag and the alteration are one event, not two.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eModern size:\u003c\/strong\u003e 25 x 32 (waist x inseam, in inches).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of one. 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Butter yellow is the hardest of the soft colours to place - too far one way and it is cream, too far the other and it is mustard - and against navy it reads as warm rather than sweet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlat, in inches: chest 40, waist 32, length 22, sleeve 21.5, shoulder 16. \u003cstrong\u003eRead the shape, not just the size.\u003c\/strong\u003e Twenty-two inches long on a forty inch chest is short, and eight inches of difference between chest and waist means it draws in at the hem rather than hanging straight. 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There is no shoulder measurement because a raglan has no shoulder seam to measure across.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe blend is worth a note: most 50\/50 sweatshirts are cotton and polyester. This one is cotton and acrylic, which is a softer, loftier hand - closer to a knit than to a jersey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThree things date it, and they agree.\u003c\/strong\u003e The tag is black: Wrangler ran cream Blue Bell tags into the late sixties and moved to black Wrangler tags around 1970, so a black tag puts this in the seventies at the earliest. The hems are \u003cstrong\u003esingle stitch\u003c\/strong\u003e, which American manufacturers abandoned for twin-needle work through the nineties. And it is made in USA, before Wrangler's production moved offshore. Seventies or eighties, and we will leave it there - the tag changeover is collectors' consensus rather than a documented switch, and a range we can stand behind beats a year we cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWrangler was launched in 1947\u003c\/strong\u003e by Blue Bell, which had bought the Hudson Overall Company two years earlier. Blue Bell ran the brand for nearly forty years, until VF Corporation bought the business in 1986.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA raglan sleeve is cut in one piece from collar to cuff\u003c\/strong\u003e, with no shoulder seam, which is why these move the way they do and why they drape softly rather than sitting square. It was an athletic construction before it was a casual one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eModern size:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fits like a modern Women's S or Men's XS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition is good.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of one. 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Brown is characteristic of the weathered palette - the third colourway after Ancient and Modern, dyed deliberately muted to look like cloth that has been in the ground and come back up. We are not naming a sett, because the label does not, and a tartan guessed from four colours is a tartan invented.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePure new wool is a claim with teeth.\u003c\/strong\u003e It means wool that has never been used before - spun straight from the fleece rather than reclaimed from old cloth. The alternative, shoddy, is wool pulled back out of worn garments and respun: shorter in the fibre, weaker, duller. A Scottish maker putting \u003cem\u003epure new wool\u003c\/em\u003e on a label is telling you which of the two you are holding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeans of Scotland made kilt-style pleated tartan skirts and wool knitwear\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the trade knows the label best from the 1970s through the 1990s. 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So a jacket reading \u003cem\u003eIzod Lacoste\u003c\/em\u003e was made inside those forty-one years and cannot have been made outside them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSri Lanka narrows it further.\u003c\/strong\u003e The country's garment export industry grew up after its economic liberalisation in 1977, so a Sri Lankan label sits at the later end of that window rather than the earlier one. The seller offered the 1980s; this is the reason we would not argue with him, though we are not printing a decade on the strength of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnd the label explains something Americans say.\u003c\/strong\u003e Rene Lacoste won the nickname \u003cem\u003ethe Alligator\u003c\/em\u003e on a wager, and it stuck; back in France it became \u003cem\u003ele Crocodile\u003c\/em\u003e. Which is why a whole American generation calls it an alligator shirt and the French never have.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of one. 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American schools put it on athletics kit for the whole of the last century because it means one thing: speed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWe do not know what the 42 is, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.\u003c\/strong\u003e On a track jacket a number across the chest is usually the athlete's own. On a letter garment it is often the graduating year. Both are ordinary and we have nothing here that settles it, so we are printing the number and leaving the question open.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA name across the back means a team, and a team means a school.\u003c\/strong\u003e We are not going to tell you which one. Jefferson is among the commonest school names in America - there are Jefferson Highs in dozens of states - and naming one without something on the garment to prove it would be inventing a provenance rather than finding one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat we can say is that somebody ran for a squad in this. 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The colour has gone gentle rather than patchy and the cloth has given up all its stiffness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGIRLS is printed right on the front, which is the whole thing.\u003c\/strong\u003e American girls' school athletics expanded enormously after Title IX passed in 1972 - the law that barred sex discrimination in federally funded education, and with it the quiet assumption that school sport was for boys. A girls' team with its own kit, its own colours and its own name across the chest, a decade later, is what that change looked like from the inside. Somebody wanted it on the front rather than the back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJerzees puts a floor under it: 1984.\u003c\/strong\u003e Russell Corporation started in a small Alabama town in 1902 and launched Jerzees in 1984, taking the quality of its Russell Athletic performance kit into a casual line. The label did not exist before that year, so neither did this sweatshirt. Made in USA sets the other end of it loosely, before American production went offshore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe winged foot is track and field's emblem, and it is older than the sport.\u003c\/strong\u003e It is the \u003cem\u003etalaria\u003c\/em\u003e - the winged sandals of Hermes, Mercury to the Romans, the god who carried good news and carried it fast. It has meant one thing for a century: speed.\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":"Jerzees","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44417534001239,"sku":"MT-TR-180","price":78.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0034\/8692\/files\/IMG_6722.jpg?v=1792532826"},{"product_id":"us-military-denim-utility-trousers-1996-contract-size-35r","title":"Vintage US Military Denim Utility Trousers, 1996 - L.M. 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Nothing about the shape is accidental; it was specified.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHis name is on these twice -\u003c\/strong\u003eThe patch sewn across the back reads \u003cstrong\u003eCHAPMAN\u003c\/strong\u003e. Inside, written in pen in his own hand: \u003cstrong\u003eName: Chapman, L.M. 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So: a 1996 contract, and a garment made to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe blend tells the same story.\u003c\/strong\u003e Sixty-five cotton to thirty-five polyester is a specification, not a fashion choice - written that way so the trousers would hold a press, survive industrial laundering and dry fast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGibraltar, P.R., Inc. sewed them in Puerto Rico\u003c\/strong\u003e, which is where a great deal of American military clothing was made. Then Chapman wore them, and wrote his name in the waistband so he would get them back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of one. 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James Pringle, known as Hamish, inherited a textile business close to bankruptcy and turned it into a multi-million-pound one by doing something nobody had bothered with: letting people buy the cloth directly from the mill that wove it. The Holm Mills shop still draws around a hundred and fifty thousand visitors a year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt is not Pringle of Scotland.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Hawick knitwear house - cashmere, argyle, founded 1815 - is an entirely separate company that happens to share the surname.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePure new wool is a claim with teeth.\u003c\/strong\u003e It means wool spun straight from the fleece rather than reclaimed from old cloth. The alternative, shoddy, is wool pulled back out of worn garments and respun: shorter in the fibre, weaker, duller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA kilt pin fastens nothing, incidentally. 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