This Dungaree workshirt has triple stitched structural seams.
I haven’t actually owned a “dungaree” shirt before. Here’s a definition of the term from Wikipedia:
Etymology of “dungaree”
The term “dungaree” was associated with a coarse undyed calico fabric that was produced and sold in a region near Dongari Killa (also called Fort George) in Bombay (now Mumbai) in India. The cloth was cheap and often poorly woven. As such, it was used by the poorer classes for clothing and by various navies as a sail cloth. Sailors often re-used old sails to make clothes. In time, the name of the cloth came to also mean an item of clothing made out of it.
I always thought dungaree was the same as chambray, but this cloth is different to chambray I have owned in the past.
Here’s a definition of Chambray from thefreedictionary.com:
A fine lightweight fabric woven with white threads across a colored warp.
[Alteration of French cambrai, cambric, after Cambrai, a city of northern France.]
So Chambray is closer to denim because it has the coloured warp and white weft. Except denim has a twill weave.
It’s got a bit of the old printed typography on the inside (which I think is way overused in current fashions), but it’s limited to the inside, so I didn’t mind.
Here is the same shirt on Amazon! Seems like a good price, but I don’t understand that size.
