{"id":5996,"date":"2020-04-30T19:20:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T19:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:24:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:24:58","slug":"bombay-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/bombay-shirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombay Shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The cover of the Spring 1983 Catalogue featured the Bombay Shirt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em> 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This shows the difference between a standard Bombay shirt with rounded corner flaps and sleeve tab, next to a teal late variation that doesn’t have the sleeve tab and has angled pocket flaps. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Winter 1984<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This Navy blue example is in it’s original shipping bag. It is shown with the original pencil drawing for the Bombay Shirt from fall 1984 catalogue. There were several different drawings of the shirt used over the years (see gallery at bottom of page). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fall 1987<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Winter 1987<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An early Bombay shirt with the Diamond Tag. Bombay shirts were made in India and this tag seems to have been used in Indian factories for a brief time early in the run. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A older auction picture showing a Blue Chambray shirt with a Diamond Tag.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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If the price tag is to be believed the Diamond tag was available as late as 1985.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Winter 1982 catalog illustration. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1435,1],"tags":[1398,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996"}],"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=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14760,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions\/14760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}