Bombay Shirt

The Bombay Shirt was available for a long time, from 1982-1988 in the catalogs that I know of. The distinctive light cotton shirt sports no less than FIVE pockets with buttons: One on each sleeve and three on the chest, with epaulettes on the shoulders and tabs on the sleeve for holding up the rolled up sleeve. There is a later run variation of the shirt that doesn’t have the sleeve tab and which has angled corner pocket flaps rather than rounded corners. It came in a dizzying array of colors over the years, usually offered in the range of khaki/natural/chambray blue but also purples, wines, oranges, salmons and teals. The Bombay cotton fabric is indeed light and airy as advertised. The Bombay Shirt is mentioned in the Wild Company book (pg. 141) in a story about Patrica Ziegler pushing to discontinue the shirt because it was being knocked-off by competitors like Eddie Bauer and The Limited.