Notebook
The fallacious invention of the « Italian knit »
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, new polo shirt and knit shirt designs appeared in mail-order catalogs and on the shelves of American department stores. They competed with a...
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The strange case of the shirt-jac part 2
Here are all the distinctive features of the summer shirt gathered : a comfortable fit, a straight hem that allowed it to be worn untucked, like a jacket, and an...
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The strange case of the shirt-jac part 1
In the early 1960s, a new shirt style appeared in the pages of fashion magazines like Esquire and Ebony : the shirt-jac. It's a cropped sports shirt with short sleeves....
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