Mandalay Shirt

These colorful, lightweight shirts have a slight texture to them and are great summer shirts. Only offered in the Spring 1988 “Road to Mandalay” catalogue. Note the catalogue is using some spot photographs rather than illustrations.

From catalogue: “We had these shirts woven in a village where hand looms are still used to make fine, lightweight cloth infused with the rich colors of equatorial countries. We made two distinctive fabrics, one threaded with a subtle cord that lets the cloth stand away from the body, the other in a variegated traditional ethnic pattern. We cut our shirt broad and full across the chest and shoulders to let air circulate, and narrowed it at the waist for shape. Laced with the vibrant colors of native tropical clothing everywhere–warm as air, bright as sun, sensuous as a stroll on the plaza at Shwedagon.”

Photos courtesy Gary Pinkerton.