The shirt is made of 5 oz. selvedge chambray, milled in Japan; details include triple chain stitching along main seams, shoulder and back yoke, ventilation holes, reinforced elbows, and painted metal buttons.

like the detail and the chambray's color 

And, order #1 is off!

Thanks Foxy, I was guessing it was you! Not sure why it's listed as 1001. 

Thanks Double O; yes, the idea came from the old Powr-House shirts, which was part of the inspiration for this shirt (this shirt is not an exact repro of one specific older model though); As for why Powr-House went with back vents, it's only my guess but a look at a heat map of the body like the one below shows that the upper back is one of the sweatiest parts of the body.  

His reasoning for the back/shoulder yoke vent holes was two-fold: one, to provide ventilation, and two, to provide extra stitching to keep the double layer of fabric better in place (the same would go for the front yokes as well).

I quote:

"A group of ventilating eyelets 17 are preferably placed under the Serial No. 308,936. arm pits and through both thicknesses of the front pieces, and serve not only as ventilating eyelets but as further means of holding the superposed layers of material in place."

"The ventilating function of the eyelets provides a comforting coolness to the shoulder of the wearer at the region where the binding strain is the greatest and also at the region where the goods is of double thickness and consequently more inclined to feel hot. It is to be noted also that the eyelets are so placed that while coming substantially in the line of strain, they are placed at positions in the goods where the line of strain runs at a. bias to the straight of the goods. As a result the eyelets are not so easily torn as they would be if they were placed where the strain came along the straight of the goods and the goods could not stretch."

I could go for some of that right about now too. 

Edit: Spoke too soon, sort of; a small brand from the UK called the Worker's Club did a chambray very similar to the Milton F. Goodman shirt, but there are no ventilation holes, the pockets are different, the front placket has an arrow shape, and the front and back yokes don't connect, similar to the below shirt from a 1928-29 Montgomery Ward catalog:

And a khaki one courtesy of Denimfoundry that's been beat to hell:

And the box these shirts likely came in; the faded border around the logo reads "Registered US Patent Office, Patented Dec. 24th, 1912":

Here you see two men with pullovers, and one with a placket that goes all the way down:

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*OK, probably not, but I have to say that.

Coming up on six weeks wait on my shirt (Canada) with tracking info still unchanged since shipping, unfortunately, not that it's your fault, IH. One day...

Doing Well, Canada's customs office is really killing me here.  Hopefully it turns up soon, if not then I'll work something out for you. 

oooh, both of those sound good. I wanted this shirt, but I already have 3 light blue chambray shirts :P

Any details on the t?

No worries dude, I think most of us have a lot of blue shirts. 

The T-shirt will be a tube knit, in a medium weight cotton, and off-white with ecru stitching:

The neck looks wide in my little sketch but I've specified for it to be a standard, smaller neck opening. The front pocket was inspired by the Black Beauty pullover that Reliance Mfg. Co. made in the 1920s:

No. You are paying homage to classic designs instead of stealing them and blatantly copying copyrighted material.

any word on measurements for these? eta? (us "chestier" bros wanna know!)

Hey, sorry about the late update on this, I just got the ETA for the XL and XXL sizes not long ago, I'm expecting to have them in late October. Reason being, I had to have more buttons made up, which took about 3 weeks, and now it seems the sewing factory is a bit busy too. Still, they're coming!

These are the measurements we gave them:

 

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It seems the timeline on the T-shirt was taking longer than expected, so I'm saving it for next spring/summer. Instead, starting next month we'll begin making a sample of a long-sleeve ecru henley for winter. In addition, the two scarves!

The hickory stripe:

Iron Horse wrote: The samples of the wabash and hickory stripe scarves are here; I'm expecting these at the beginning of November, but pre-orders are open now.  The final versions will be 50x165 cm, one washed, and will have a different label. The hickory stripe:

In addition, the long-sleeve henley sample is coming soon after.

I've also got a new blog post up, though I warn you the pool goes into the philosophical deep end:

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Found some other manufacturer's models of the double yoke/vent shirts including this one by Reliance/Big Yank 

Looking at the chinstrap makes me itching to include it with the ecru Heracles! 

I'm expecting the final shipment in December, meanwhile I have a blog post and pre-orders up:

and as usual, the blog is always such a great way to let us inside the product and your brain, you and I seem to see the whole cone situation eye to eye... well, I'm more of a fan based on a history with levis going back to my childhood. thanks again for your thoughts!

still looking forward to the heracles in XL  

The reason being, the factory screwed up and misunderstood our directions, and accidentally cut off the selvedge line on the wabash scarves. This is the first time something this egregious has happened to John Lofgren. I've decided to go ahead with these, because otherwise they would be a waste, and because to remake them would mean waiting until Jan. 2018 as we bought up the last of this fabric, so the mill would have to make more. 

If you're looking for a stocking stuffer for Christmas  :

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https://the-rite-stuff.com/products/copy-of-pre-order-for-nov-2017-the-rite-stuff-hickory-stripe-scarf" rel="nofollow - Hickory Stripe Scarf

Double 0, John is back in California full-time these days and got hitched there, but he still has the Speedway and The Army Gym stores in Sendai. 

Really tempted by the new shirts, but a little skeptical of the sleeve lengths. According to the measurements on the website, they're almost a full inch shorter than what I'm used to in similar chest + shoulder sizes.

Any thoughts on how these'll do for taller folks (6'2", 185ish)?

Likely grabbing the new tee either way, looks great.

I like that mat Broark

If TRS was around 10yrs ago when the forums were in their heyday and the market place was less crowded you'de be rich... rich i tells ya.

Its everything anyone ever wanted in a workshirt