Sundays Best... Vintage Workshirts

A trio of super vintage work shirts recently brought to market dating from the early 1900's to the 1940's. These new old stock beauties will soon be to be on their way to  new homes after decades of storage.

 THE MOORE brand childs shirt with chin strap. Made from indigo dyed polka dot STIFEL cloth. Photos via graciemay0

MONITOR brand 7oz. cotton flannel work shirt. Photos via unpack

IRON ACE brand SANFORIZED grey chambray work shirt. Photos via unpack

Early 1900's THE PRESIDENT GUARANTEED WORK SHIRT

While we do not normally feature items currently up for auction, for this beautiful vintage chambray work shirt an exception is in order. The nice seller of this garment contacted us with questions about this rare find and we were happy to shed some light on this century old shirt and help promote this current auction.

This PRESIDENT GUARANTEED WORK SHIRT was manufactured by The President Shirt Co. in Baltimore, Md sometime around 1911 and while one hundred plus years of age has indeed taken its toll, aside from a few holes, storage soil and stains this shirt looks to be in barely worn if not unworn condition.

Primitively constructed of coarse weave blue chambray fabric with some very crude single and double stitching in contrasting natural thread, this vintage work shirt includes many nice details. These details include pull-over type body with two button front placket, two button chin strap collar tab, single front pocket with pen/tool slot, lower side hem rip stop gussets, back shoulder yoke with arcuate type stitching detail and a great printed neck label seen in the photo above.

Early 1900s President Guaranteed Work Shirt

Beautifully primitive chin strap collar tab with crude stitching

Double layer back shoulder yoke arcuate with more crude stitching. Loom chatter in the fabric can be seen in the upper right corner

Lower hem rip stop gussets

1911 President Guaranteed Work Shirt print ad

Vintage 1950s BIG CHIEF Union Made Sanforized Khaki Twill Workshirt

Sold via The San Fernando Valley Mercantile Co.

1930s BIG YANK FLYER LABEL CHAMBRAY WORK SHIRT with NRA CODE TAG

Fantastic 1930's era BIG YANK FLYER sweat proof pocket shirt LOT 3820 SIZE 17 in unused deadstock condition. So many killer details on this beauty, most of which are listed below.

• BIG YANK FLYER PATENTED tag, printed in 2 color ink with SIZE & LOT numbers individually stamped in black

• NRA CODE, Cotton Garment Code Authority LICENSE NO. muslin tag with numbers stamped in red

• Blue cotton chambray fabric with heavy grain

• Contrasting dark blue cotton single, double and triple stitching

• Double layer top yoke with curved horizontal stitching common to BIG YANK work shirts

• Back side top yoke ventilation eyelets stitched in green cotton thread

• Extra long patch style "big pocket" with pencil slot and bar tack reinforcements stitched in green cotton thread

• Sweat proof square"little pocket" in the rarer non-pyramid top style with flap closure and embossed painted BIG YANK metal button

• Pointed collar

• Lower side hem gussets

photos courtesy of tomsgr8deals

1940s Reliance Mfg. Co. BIG YANK Herringbone Twill Work Shirt with Cigarette Pocket

BIG YANK shirt photos courtesy of andvintage

Another beautiful Reliance Mfg. Co. BIG YANK work shirt with the iconic cigarette pocket in much favored blue cotton herringbone twill fabric. The unique pyramid top pocket design features a front and back sided pouch sewn on top of the shirt body as opposed to a conventional patch pocket in which a single piece of material is sewn directly on top the shirt body. This pocket is constructed using a single piece of material folded at the bottom to create the pouch which was then stitched along the sides and bar-tack reinforced, hence the lack of stitching on the pocket's bottom. These type of pockets are also referred to as sweat-proof pockets and were used to hold items best kept dry and perspiration free such as a pack of smokes or a pocket watch.

Early 20th Century Lee Work Shirts Promotional Piece

Photos courtesy of wdpickers

Washington and Lincoln: Presidents Day 2012

In honor of founding father George Washington and arguably our greatest president Abraham Lincoln, some 1940's, 1950's and 1960's deadstock vintage workwear bearing their names.

1930's Era BIG YANK DELUXE Vintage Work Shirt

Killer 1930's era BIG YANK DELUXE work shirt

• Near deadstock condition 
• Cigarette pocket with pencil slot and BIG YANK engraved metal button 
• Double layer strain-proof shoulder yoke with signature curved stitching
• Contrasting stitching
• Sanforized fabric 
• Selvedge edge lower hem gussets.

Shirt photos via 8onrepeat vintage clothing