Vintage T-Shirt Forum & Community Authentication Appraisals

So as I've been hunting more and more for vintage tees, I've been noticing quite a few that have tags sewn in (one stitch line) on top of the neck seam, maybe even with previous tags removed/clipped behind. So my question is - have some companies through the years actually done this for their products (maybe using previous deadstock?) or are all shirts like that fakes? I'm seeing these at thrift stores and I don't really think there would be that many fakes donated to those. But I don't know, lol.

Here is an example of what I'm talking about. I have this same Space Jam tee that this seller has listed here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/261913238020. If you zoom in on his closeup pic of the tag, you can see the tag is sewn in on top of the seam with one stitch. This is exactly how the one I have is, too, so that makes me think that's just how they made them.

So should I automatically not buy shirts like that or are many of them genuine products?

Here's another example of one that I have. The Starter tag is obviously sewn in after the fact. But the shirt looks legit and has the Starter logo on the sleeve as well. So did they maybe have it sewn in on an older stock tee for some reason?

whole thing is bizarre. but perhaps in this instance due to wanting to churn out a ton of tees to meet a world series win demand they ran out of blank inventory and had to use other blanks? they finished them with a sewn in tag? or maybe they were made on the fly in cleveland when atlanta could have clinched there.

As a follow-up to this, there are legit reasons for sewn-in tags. In the example above, it really doesn't make any sense that it would be fake - bootleggers from that era were interested in making a quick buck outside the stadium - not creating a multiple color print, adding a hologram, an arm print, and then adding a counterfeit tag, along with what appears to be a retail tag.

As I mentioned, this was likely done on the fly by Starter to satisfy demand after their regular blank inventory, with their tags present, weren't available.

There's more examples and info about the topic here: topic946.html