C&A, Men’s dress shirt, presumably 1970s
Dress shirt made from poplin
Details
- Title: C&A, Men’s dress shirt, presumably 1970s
- Object Type: Dress shirt
- Dating: 1970 - 1979
- Dating Period: 1970s
- Material: Cotton
- Technique: Sewn
- Clothing size: 42 EN
- Collar size: 34 cm
- Acquisition Date: 2011
- Inventory number: 113240
- Permalink: https://www.draiflessen.com/items/107
Description
This men’s dress shirt was made from a cream-colored cotton fabric with golden-brown and white stripes. Never worn, it has been preserved in the condition in which it was sold: folded around a cardboard shape with sloping shoulders, kept in shape by pins and staples and sporting a paper strip whose printed inscription—the C&A logo and “C&A mako POPELINE”—has the colors blue, white, and red. With its collar supported by a cardboard strip, the shirt was packaged in transparent plastic wrap (since removed for conservational reasons) and was in perfect shape for the self-service counters which C&A started pushing in the 1940s for clothing items in the lower price range and which have been in use for men’s shirts since 1950.