The Frock Shirt is a combination of a three-pocket work shirt and a tailored frock coat.
The fabric is cut across the grain, with no side seams, and the shoulder seam is sloped
back from the centre of the neck to the back of the armhole, connecting with the sleeve
seam which runs along the back of the sleeve to the cuff. This way of cutting recalls 18th
and 19th Century dress coats, where the sloped shoulder seam keeps the garment
cleaner from the front, and the slight bias allows the fabric to be stretched in over the
canvasses. The shirt is cut with deep scooped tails, and is sewn with all-cotton thread and finished with dyed cotton-covered metal buttons and a Made in USA blue label.

Cotton Pyjama is woven in USA from American cotton and was designed for flan-
nel-raising to become pyjamas fabric. Tender shirts, however, are made from the raw cotton fabric, straight off the loom. The patterns are cut extremely oversized, from the heavily starched cloth, but shrink down to a very soft, correctly sized garment during
washing and dyeing. This shrinkage and textural change would normally happen during
the flannel finishing process, but in the case of these shirts it happens on the garment
itself, bringing the panels together and creating something more than the sum of its
parts.

Garment dyeing raw cotton garments accentuates the manufacturing processes, shrink-
ing the seams and bringing out latent texture from the yarn. Flowerpot has long been a Tender staple colour, and is the colour of terracotta, cooked
earth.

100% Cotton

Made in USA