Vintage Velva Sheen "Holy Innocents School" Sweatshirt, Single Stitch

The body is a tube with no side seams and the hem carries a single line of stitching. Both stopped being how sweatshirts were made by the end of the 1980s. The neck label reads M ADULT, from the years when sizes were split between adults and children rather than assumed.

Velva 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.

92% 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.

HOLY 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.

Condition: good. Collar ribbing with recovery and no stretch. Fleece interior intact and lofty. Print reads clean and unbroken.

Wash cold inside out, tumble low.

One of one. Sold as-is and final.