Engineered Garments Combo Short Collar Shirt – Embroidery

Every shirt is assembled from something like a dozen separate pattern pieces, and on almost every shirt ever made those pieces are cut from one cloth so that the seams disappear and the garment reads as a single object. A combo shirt is the same pattern with that convention removed. Cut the yoke from one fabric, the body from another, a sleeve or a pocket from a third, and the construction stops hiding. You can see, from across a room, exactly how a shirt is put together.

Three quarters cotton with a quarter polyester is a working choice rather than a compromise. The polyester supplies recovery, which is what keeps a panelled garment from pulling out of true where cloths of slightly different weights meet at a seam.

Patchwork is nearly always decoration applied on top of a garment. Here it is the garment's own construction made visible, which is a different idea and a much better one.

Building a shirt from panels of unlike cloth is a recurring method in Engineered Garments' collections rather than a one-season novelty.

Seventy-five percent cotton, twenty-five percent polyester, with embroidery. Made in the USA. Colour: White and blue.

A short collar is cut with shorter points than a standard shirt collar, so it stands closer to the neck, reads smaller, and takes up less room under a jacket. We hold no further fit information for this shirt. A blend with a quarter polyester in it has good recovery and will not relax across a day the way a pure cotton does.

With the RF Trousers. With the Painter Pant in olive. Under the Trucker Jacket, where a plain khaki holds the panelling down.

Wash cool and hang to dry. Polyester glazes under heat, so press low and through a cloth if at all, and press a panelled seam from the back so the join stays flat. Our care guidance for mixed cloths covers the rest.

The same shirt in cotton is the Combo Short Collar Shirt in navy, yellow, and green. The Work Shirt in natural is the plainer shirt, with the RF Trousers and the Painter Pant in olive under it. Everything we carry from Engineered Garments is listed together.