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[CRAZYBUBBA]

Speaking of holy grails, this tee is the real deal. http://hermosavintage.com/2010/07/01/we ... indrunner/

[jimmyj]

yup frank covered it too.

http://bulldogvintage.com/2010/07/07/vi ... hirt-1938/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[nicotine]

wow incredible!!!! i havent seen champion 30's t-shirt......just jacket thing....
plus ORANGE is rare color for that time isnt it?

[CRAZYBUBBA]

Yup. I think the only reason that it was orange was for the Princeton Tigers crew team otherwise it would have likely been white with a single color print.

[nicotine]

oh...interesting fact.
last bidder is japanese? if so, i can see it on the web soon.

[hermosavtg]

Thanks for the links! Not sure about that last bidder. I have my doubts that a japanese would go so nuts over a piece of Princeton memorabilia. Regardless of the rarity of a Champion shirt from that era in that color.

[Frank]

There is a whole cult of traditionalist/ preppy clothing and Ivy League fandom in Japan

[nicotine]

ivy league.....i cant tell what university is ivy league or not. but vintage fandom including me love vintage ink-in college tees.

[Frank]

Google "take ivy" - a book that was produced in 1965 in Japan and has since been reprinted. There seems to be a tremendous upsurge in interest in classic American traditional fashion in Japan over the past couple of years. Good things!

[CRAZYBUBBA]

I found a champion blue bar tee for some Japanese University a few months back. I wonder how well those ones do.

As for the Ivies, I've seen that old cornell stuff on ebay that didn't do so well, the craze seems to be more for the upper ivies.

[nicotine]

i didnt know that take ivy book. i checked it. its awesome. reportedly it is republished by a publisher relating to one of the most famous japanese american fashion brand "ware house"

>CRAZYBUBBA
if ya okay, i wanna see them.

[CRAZYBUBBA]

I don't actually have it anymore. I sent it in a bale to somewhere, I think NYC. It's possible that it was listed on ebay. Maybe Hermosa can hunt it down with his ebay magic. It was a grey tee with the university crest on the front and I don't remember the name of the university.

[nicotine]

haha you have tons of university in the US. even american themselves cant identify all of them, right?

[CRAZYBUBBA]

For sure, there are like 4 tiers in the US news rankings in almost every category (research, liberal arts, etc).

This one was different because it was a Japanese university print on a blue bar tee. That strikes me as a little unusual.

[nicotine]

you mean it has japanese uni name in chinese character? not english?
its super cool and rare i guess. ive never heard of champion tee bearing japanese uni name.

[CRAZYBUBBA]

It was actually written in English! I should have posted it to the forum before sending it off

[nicotine]

i curse your life XD

[musboy20]

i think it is a japanese reproduction of bluebar tee.. i found it a lot..not so rare..