Pendletons and Other Plaids of the Past...

[HarpPlayerGene]

...so the sleeves are like a shirt and the body is a jacket?Is there any stiffening in the lapels,etc or is it just shirt material cut like that?

Yep, that sleeve gimmick really 'casual-izes' it.

And yeah, the lapels are just cut that way but the whole thing is lightweight like a shirt, unlined, and not too fuzzy like some wool plaids can be.

 

[bumphrey hogart]

It is strange. Maybe everyone "buys UK" there because no doubt the woolens industry is huge there. For sure, Pendleton shirts are my favorite winter wear. I also have a solid dark green with the leather elbow patches; solid dark blue with patches; too many others to recount but all new models, nothing vintage.

There is really no wool industry left over here and wool shirts are very,very hard to find,we have a top end company called 'john smedley' that makes beautiful stuff if you can afford to spend $200 on a shirt,and we have a french designer based in London who works in wool called 'nicole farhi',I have 2 shirts by her,but they're not as good as the pendleton stuff.I also picked up an italian,french cuffed wool shirt by a guy called 'pal zileri' off ebay recently that is absolutely superb,but that is the sum total of my wool shirt collection,as I said they're incredibly hard to come by!In all the thousands of times I have been to thrift/charity/second hand shops I have never seen a wool shirt,I don't remember ever seeing anyone wearing one!You chaps are lucky!

 

[Edward]

I've noticed that too. Perhaps they were washed/dried badly and shrunk? I have had some luck dampening the sleeves and stretching them out and allowing to dry with some tension on them. The wool kinda' works with you. To an extent.

Can alsobe shrunk beyond all recognition. An ex-girlfriend of mine once washed (and tumble dried a favourite sweater of mine to the point where, in that one wash, it was too small for me to even think about trying it on again. It was a favourite, too!

 

[Warbaby]

I'm still on the lookout for the patched elbow style but here's one of the jacket types I scored last year for about $4.00. They got the sleeves right on this one, thank goodness.

I have a very similar unlined Pendleton jacket. When I was a kid back in the fifties, those were referred to as 'shirt-jackets'.

 

[Foofoogal]

As my avatar shows my mom believed in plaid. check out my blog for my story.

 

[Edward]

Yeah, I'd love some more Pendletons myself, but I only ever seem to see them on US eBay, which (pending an improvement in the exchange rate) isn't as cheap as it once was for us. Shame.

My favorite of the bunch. Much heavier, stiffer and scratchier. Definitely want to wear a long sleeve Henley under this one. Dig the angled pocket flaps. Inner lining/facing material is natural, not synthetic. Buttons are black GLASS.

HIGH armholes:

Looks like a dead ringer for the stuff from which my Aero Waterfront is made .....

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

Looks like a dead ringer for the stuff from which my Aero Waterfront is made .....

Yep,.. I have a hunch this one goes wayyy back. Could easily be somewhere in the '30s to '50s range, methinks. Of course, I'd like to think it's the earlier part of that range but haven't found solid evidence...

 

[Inusuit]

I have maybe 15 Pendleton shirts of various vintage. Here in Cheyenne, they sell for $4.00 at Goodwill. While the label styles have changed, Pendleton is still making the square-tailed shirts with flap pockets and no placket. The catalog calls them Board Shirts. Apparently the style is popular with skate boarders. When I first started wearing Pendleton shirts in the 1960's, they were a hot item for surfers. Not that I did any surfing in eastern Colorado. As with many things, the older shirts are of much higher quality than recent versions. I have only two that appear to have a cotton lining in the yoke and they seem to be the oldest of my collection.

Gene, all the "board shirts" I have (five I think) have horizontal button holes. All the other styles including a very nice "Sir Pendleton" buttondown are vertical.

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

Found this thread on the subject:
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?23890-Pendletons