Rock 'n' Roll Shirt "The Joe Greene" - Sepia

This season is a stylistic tribute to the heartthrob and natural born world-shaker known as “The Joe Greene”, love bandit and tough guy — harder than Chinese poetry at the ER — , and our permanent “Employee of the Month” at the ol’ pile o’ rags.
Greene because Joe lived on Greene Avenue in Los Angeles with his OG parents, for most of his 14 years of happy earthly presence. He touched many lives. During his senior years, I became Joe’s private chef, barnacle, and he turned me into a well-trained house pet. Joe called the shots. In return, he made my world a better place…

Thank you, my King, fair winds and following seas. I’ll see you on that distant shore, Poum Poumsh.

Our recurring collaboration with the Sun Surf® label, renowned purveyor of authentic vintage reproductions of Aloha-type shirts. This “Joe G” edition features original doodles of The Joe, sprinkled with a string of international nicknames he was given, mostly had-to-be-there types of onomatopoeias.

SPECS

• Classic wing tip collar pattern -The Type II collar shape is different than the original release and is typical of our recent R'n'R shirts
• Classic 1950’s casual shirt pattern with a relaxed fit.
• Fabric: 100% rayon.
• Corozo wood buttons, aka ivory nut.
• Single chest pocket, matching graphic pattern.
• Narrow flat felled seams, chainstich.
• Rayon MF® x Sun Surf collab label.
• Made in Japan.  

SIZING/FIT

The Mister Freedom® Rock 'N' Roll Shirt fits true-to-size. Please refer to sizing chart to determine which size works for you.

CL's Advice: The R’n’R shirt is designed to have a 50’s casual shirt type length. True to size, the shirt has quite a comfortable roomy fit. If you are usually a Medium in mfsc shirts, you are a Medium in the R’n’R shirt.

CARE

Dry clean only. 

STORY

Toyo Enterprises 50th Anniversary in 2015 gave us the opportunity to collaborate with its “SUN SURF” label, of Hawaiiana garment fame. It was a great honor to collaborate with Toyo’s textile and manufacturing experts on this project

Our fabric graphic design is adapted from a vintage 1950’s novelty print swatch from the MF® archives. It features diving, racing, flying, surfing, boats, cars, airplanes… Action Packed, baby.

Modified collar pattern of our original MF® x Sun Surf Rock’n’Roll Shirt from 2015. Using the classic wing tip collar pattern typical of our recent RnR shirts.
This works in our story as a civilian garment worn on R&R (Rest & Recuperation) by military personnel. It is documented that some SOG team members favored wearing “loud” shirts while on leave during their tour of duty in Southeast Asia. (if I remember well, source: “We Few: US Special Forces in Vietnam” by Nick Brokhausen)