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#51 2017-02-13 10:18:43

Armchaired
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Re: A Brooks Brothers makers Label chronology

I have my eye on a short sleeved one in my size.
Its Blue and looks to be oxford.


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#52 2017-02-13 12:04:10

HOOT
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Re: A Brooks Brothers makers Label chronology

Thanks for the info. Makes me wonder if there was any difference in tags between the regular and slim cut models?

 

#53 2017-02-13 14:18:57

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Re: A Brooks Brothers makers Label chronology

Does anyone know when they started with Brooksgate?

 

#54 2017-02-14 02:35:24

Yuca
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Re: A Brooks Brothers makers Label chronology

It's in the Brooks book (which is crap btw). I'll check later but I think it was 72 - just before Watergate appeared, which really didn't help the name Brooksgate.


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#55 2017-02-14 06:13:09

farrago
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Re: A Brooks Brothers makers Label chronology

Keep in mind that Brooksgate shirts might not appeal to you. They were a slimmer cut and used a lighter weight oxford cloth. They also had shorter collar points and lacked a back box pleat.

 

#56 2017-02-14 09:47:45

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Re: A Brooks Brothers makers Label chronology


"bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay"

 

#57 2017-02-14 09:50:25

Yuca
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Re: A Brooks Brothers makers Label chronology

The rise and fall of the Brooks empire.


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#58 2017-06-16 07:47:44

HOOT
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Re: A Brooks Brothers makers Label chronology

Came across this on eBay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Men-039-s-Vintage-Brooks-Brothers-Brooksgate-Yellow-Oxford-Buttondown-Shirt-15-32-/252961450944?

Looks like the Brooksgate shirts changed over the years, this one is 100% cotton, has a box pleat and fairly long collar points by the looks of it.

 

#59 2017-06-23 01:28:09

Horace
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Re: A Brooks Brothers makers Label chronology

I know old news and discussed -- I can't quite muster the resolve to check the archives, but fuck me if it's hasn't become complicated to parse out the various Brooks shirts currently being offered.

Saw some great striped US made oxfords on their site.  Wanted to pick a few up.

I'd always get the uni stripe in blue.  I had one in red.  Who knows where it is now.  Thinking of more.  It was always an either/or for me though. Blue or red stripe.  Always favored the blue.  Now thinking the red.  It looks great with various browns and greens and tans that make up a good sport coat.


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#60 2019-02-13 11:06:00

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Re: A Brooks Brothers makers Label chronology

The label was different for the shirts you could custom order through the New York store in the late 2000s before they introduced the new Brooks oxford without collar lining and MOP buttons, and you could get a few unique oxford cloths.  The label looked more like the older labels as I recall. I have one such shirt and will take a photo if I can find it.


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#61 2019-02-13 11:27:46

Jdemy
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Re: A Brooks Brothers makers Label chronology

Years ago, when I was young and naive, I came to this site and went on and on about Kamakura shirts being something new, an evolution, a future.  I return older, wiser and chastened.  Brooks Brothers Makers line my closet from side to side. Mostly white. Best shirt ever produced.  I keep buying because I now know what the expression, "A comfort in my old age" means.

 

#62 2019-02-13 19:11:36

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Re: A Brooks Brothers makers Label chronology


"bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay"

 

#63 2019-02-13 21:17:03

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Re: A Brooks Brothers makers Label chronology


"The only comment a gentleman’s outfit should generate is that he is properly dressed for the occasion" - Calvin Trillin

 

#64 2019-02-14 22:18:07

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Re: A Brooks Brothers makers Label chronology

Last edited by Bulldog (2019-02-14 22:19:08)


/ one day the ax just fell /

 

#65 2019-02-25 22:47:42

Bulldog
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Re: A Brooks Brothers makers Label chronology

Not a label but relevant to prewar Brooks oxford cloth history.  The bottom swatch looks closer to what they offer today but I'd like to have a shirt in the other shade as well.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BsqfACCAEJs/


/ one day the ax just fell /

 

#66 2019-03-03 20:55:17

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Re: A Brooks Brothers makers Label chronology


/ one day the ax just fell /

 

#67 2019-03-03 20:58:41

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Re: A Brooks Brothers makers Label chronology


/ one day the ax just fell /

 
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