How big did the v-necks go?

[prairie]

I have spent over a year hunting on ebay for a v-neck olive green uniform shirt, my neck is bout 20 inchs and chest is over 50 so I don't quite fit in a 2XLG of the just discontinued shirts.

So far I have a 16 1/2 v-neck I can stuff myself into but no buttons will reach, sorry for that mental image some of you will be stuck with now.

Only thing left for me to try is asking some of the older scouters if they know of unused vintage shirts.

[Gold Winger]

The largest that I've ever seen of the old green shirt was 17 1/2. When they went to SML sizing, the XL wasn't a big as current XLs. I have one and it doesn't fit me.

 

I think that people just weren't that big back then.

[scoutldr]

The "SML" was probably youth sizes. As I recall, the adults wore shirts with collars to accomodate the necktie.

[prairie]

That thought had crossed my mind, but I haven't found a collared shirt of either sleeve length any larger either. Those youth shirts where a size is still marked use a number, many seem to have lost that tag or it bleached out. Might just be my poor luck, don't know. Iff'n somebody had a catalog from the 60s or 70s that would be a help.

 

BTW I have collected shirts from the Sanforized era up to a style almost like the tan shirts, only the color, lack of eppeilets and having a yoke over the shoulders make it diffrent.

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