{"id":1952,"date":"2021-01-25T11:23:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T11:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:22:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:22:31","slug":"expedition-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/expedition-shirts\/","title":{"rendered":"Expedition Shirts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Cotton Canvas Expedition shirt was introduced early, in fall 1984, and was sold for most of the catalogue run until late 1987. It was preceded by the Cotton Canvas Shirt<\/a> of the same design minus the epaulets and the catalog copy would be partially recycled for the first iteration of Expedition Shirt: “Amedeo Modigliani never had this to paint on, or he might have endowed his subjects with much shorter necks and saved the extra canvas for his shirtmaker.”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Usually sold in natural tones, it was later sold in a variety of colors as in the 1986 Holiday catalogue. As the catalogue copy notes, Expedition cloth was widely used in the BR product line. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The catalogue copy changed over time, this is from the Holiday 1986 catalogue: “This shirt is the proud paterfamilias of our Expedition Cloth clan, which has grown to include shorts, pants, flightsuits, and jackets. Obviously we’ve been impressed by the performance and travel-worthiness of this fabric: tough, comfortable, unbelievably long-wearing cotton canvas. A more gutsy and reliable shirt we can’t conceive of\u2013pre-washed for suppleness, with such civilizing details as button-flap pockets and epaulets. For expeditions remote or routine.”<\/p>\n\n\n

Keeping track of the various shirts BR made can be tricky. At first glance they often look the same. The key feature in the Expedition Shirt is the angled pocket flaps. The Expedition shirt was very popular and is seen frequently on the vintage market.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ivory<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Olive Drab<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An earlier version of the Expedition shirt with the Hong Kong origin tag sewn into the collar. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Spruce<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cranberry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Manila<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An XLL long size option was available Fall and Holiday 1986 (See top catalogue image). This is Manila. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Cotton Canvas Expedition shirt was introduced early, in fall 1984, and was sold for most of the catalogue run until late 1987. It was preceded by the Cotton Canvas Shirt of the same design minus the epaulets and the catalog copy would be partially recycled for the first iteration of Expedition Shirt: “Amedeo Modigliani […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1435,4],"tags":[1134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13192,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/13192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}