Vintage Russell Athletic Numeral 10 Tee - Kelly Green

Russell Athletic, 100% cotton single jersey, ribbed crew collar.

Benjamin Russell started the Russell Manufacturing Company in Alexander City, Alabama on 3 March 1902 with ten sewing machines and eight knitting machines, making women's and children's knit shirts. In 1926 his son proposed an all-cotton practice jersey to replace the wool football kit of the day, and the crewneck sweatshirt went into production at the Russell mills in 1930. Numbered cotton practice shirts like this one are the same idea, kept going.

Era: before the late 1980s, from the construction rather than the label.

Condition: worn. There are two very small holes and one very small stain. The print is cracked, which on a tee this age is the point rather than the problem. Everything else is sound.

Measured flat, in inches: chest 44, length 25, sleeve 6.5, shoulder 20. Tagged XL 46-48, so it measures under the tag - and a 20 inch shoulder on a 25 inch length makes it wide and short rather than long and narrow.

100% cotton. Cold wash, dry flat. Never iron the print.

Pit to pit 22 in. Length 25 in. Shoulder 20 in. Sleeve 6.5 in.

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

One of one. Sold as found.

No returns - as is.