On it's own, only a couple of times, on account of that distinctive poly-cotton itch. Miles was on a winner when he picked his shirt in linen and not poly-cotton.

...Of course it is chinese made.

Helio is a sort of darker but still very matt lilac? I;ve never seen one of those. When did they phase that colour out NSB?

I really think I would wear the green a lot. I'd also wear the yellow and the peach a fair bit in Summer if the weather  was decent.

Do you feel that the less common colours are less wearable NSB(I can see the helio being hard to wear) or is it a case of them being hard to find and the collector in you knows you won't find a replacement easily?

That one I linked above was in the sale here in the UK for a couple of days until it sold out. About £35 delivered. That's a great price and I'd have bought it but it was sold out in a small months before that. If you can get a Hugger or Yale CoOp in the sale then they are worth the money. Full price? I'm not convinced.

green was fairly common,after the colors still produced. green and peach were very big in the cuts aimed at 60s yoof (arrow cum laude, etc) and super, super common during the 80s prep revival thing (esp. bd baggies, polo, and no-name dept. store brands, more often pastel/mint rather than the vivid shades popular during the 60s).

I found that getting rid of either, even if NOS, was harder than selling bags of rotting cat faeces, so I gave up on them. But they are interesting, esp. the peach with wide green stripes arrow decton cum laude model ,which seems to have been insanely popular with college kids from the numbers i see.

EDIT: i think either farrago or NSB has a makers green college stripe, that is a rare beast, rarer than the brown college stripe. bean makes them on and off but only in tent-fit no-iron.

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Miles supposedly wore andover shirts. My andover shirts are more recent, but on those button placement is the same as brooks and has the illusion of being even lower, due to some minor nuances of cut. possibly jim or zach may have a 60s andover to compare?

Fantastic insight chaps. I don't even know where the notion came from that the Miles shirt was a brooks. Maybe just naive assumption. I'm of course no expert, as you can probably tell.

Shamrock- when you say they were super common amongst the Prepsters, were green OCBDs for a time as popular as say, the standard blue shirt?