Pattern inspired by a vintage 1930’s US Army wool uniform classic, revisited.
Full 6 button front opening.
Rounded tails.
Vintage USN chambray shirt style urea buttons.
Two large utilitarian chest pockets with pen compartments.
Unstructured one-piece collar.
Elbow reinforcement patches.
White poplin button placket facing.
Chainstitch construction with narrow folder.
Red bartack in lieu of side gussets.
Original mfsc “Frogsville x Saigon Classified” woven rayon label.
SIZING/FIT
The HBT “denim” SNIPES Shirt comes RAW/unwashed.
We recommend this usual protocol before wearing:
Cold soak for about 30-40mn, with occasional hand agitation.
Hang until fully dry.
At 5.7’ ~145 lbs, I opted for a SMALL for a trim uniform-like fit.
We recommend sticking to your usual mfsc shirt size.
Please refer to sizing chart for approximate raw/soaked measurements.
CARE
Hang dry.Heat dryer may result in excessive shrinkage.
STORY
The pattern of the MF® SNIPES is inspired by the earliest model of US Gov-issued uniform shirt in a full button-front design, a departure from earlier 1/2 button-front pullover styles.
Besides the full six-button front placket improvement, the characteristics of the early 8-26C shirt included a one-piece unstructured collar (no collar band), a singular style of elbow reinforcement patch, and two large functional chest pockets, each with a pen compartment.
Remember pens?
The Mister Freedom® SNIPES retains all of that military design DNA, and we only decided to get creative with our choices of fabrics, a departure from the original US Army OD wool blend issue.
This is the third MF® iteration of the SNIPES, with the first 2020 release cut from Buzz Rickson’s Chambray.
Followed an OD cotton poplin version in 2021, a visual reference to classic US Navy N-3 type shirts.
This season, the SNIPES gets a new fancy skin, a very slubby herringbone twill (HBT) milled in Japan, about 6 Oz., light indigo warp x white weft, which we are (with great liberty) calling “HBT denim” because of the denim-like yarn color combination.
Technically speaking, this textile is not of the denim family (usually right or left hand twill fabric with indigo warp x natural weft), definitely not chambray (a plain weave fabric), but kinda looks like the latter, from a distance.
Besides fabric nerds, most will probably refer to it as “chambray”.
Blurring the lines between vintage US Navy work shirts and early US Army shirts, with the usual Mister Freedom® might-have-been design approach, we went for classic navy blue urea plastic buttons and white contrast stitching, old-school naval chambray shirt style.
The term “snipes” refers to USN enlisted personnel working in the engine room, the “sailors that sail below”, aka “Black Gang” for their grease-covered blues and salty dixie cup covers.
See Machinist’s Mate Jake Holman’s dungarees for a Hollywood rendition.
Read the full blog post about the Snipes Shirt
Indigo HBT here
DÉTAILS
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Origine
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Couleur
Indigo
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