Polo Country Elbow-Patch Shirt - Green Plaid

Ralph Lauren still prints the heritage Polo Country shield on current production, so a period-looking label proves nothing about age; the care tag marks this one as current manufacture.

Green madras plaid with leather elbow patches. Labelled size L, and it wears oversized.

Madras 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.

Condition: good used condition.

Measurements to follow.

Cotton. Machine wash cold, tumble low.

Modern size: Fits like a modern Women's M or Men's S.

One of one. Sold as found.

No returns - as is.