Vintage Polo Country Pleated Chino Shorts, Made in USA - W32"

Tan cotton chino, pleated front, size W32 measuring about 30 inches. The green brand label at the fly reads POLO COUNTRY / AUTHENTIC DRY GOODS / EST 1967 / RALPH LAUREN / MADE IN U.S.A.

Made 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.

Chino 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.

Condition: 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.

Measured flat, in inches: waist 32, hips 42, inseam 6.

100% cotton chino. Machine wash cold, tumble low.

Modern size: 32 x 6 (waist x inseam, in inches).

One of one. Sold as found.

No returns - as is.