{"id":757,"date":"2022-05-28T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/?p=757"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:18:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:18:56","slug":"shopping-safari-banana-republic-guide-employee-vests-and-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/shopping-safari-banana-republic-guide-employee-vests-and-shirts\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping Safari! “Banana Republic Guide” Employee Vests and Shirts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the more fun items to collection are store employee “guide” vests and shirts. These are either hooded bush vests<\/a> or Expedition shirts<\/a> with a silk-screened stars and bananas emblem labeled Banana Republic Guide. Probably one of the coolest and highest quality retail “uniforms” ever! <\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a> I first heard about these when I found an old Craigslist ad selling one. The hunt was on! Eventually I had three different samples and I’ve seen other variations, including a black shirt.<\/p>\n

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This employee helping a customer may be wearing one of the official Banana Republic Guide vests, but we can’t say for sure. (1988 Press photo from my personal collection)<\/p><\/div>\n

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An unusual example on a white Safari Shirt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This example is on a white Costa Brava shirt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] One of the more fun items to collection are store employee “guide” vests and shirts. These are either hooded bush vests or Expedition shirts with a silk-screened stars and bananas emblem labeled Banana Republic Guide. Probably one of the coolest and highest quality retail “uniforms” ever!      I first heard about these when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1389],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757"}],"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=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14621,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/14621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}