After Drake’s · Spring/Summer 2025
Navy Duck Block Print Cotton Camp Collar Short Sleeve Shirt
The camp collar holiday shirt is an old warm-weather type, known by several names over the decades but little changed in its essentials: short sleeves, an open collar and a square hem. Drake's version keeps to that plain outline and puts the interest in the cloth, a light cotton printed by hand with blocks in a small repeating duck motif, ecru on navy. It is cut loose, with a plain front and a straight hem, and made in Portugal for wear untucked in high summer.
The original, in the Internet Archive
In Proper Cloth
Albiate Slate and White Micro Print
We chose a lightweight plain-weave printed cotton from Albiate because it matches the original's weight, weave and fibre, and its small pale-on-dark print gives a similar busy, allover effect. No duck or block-printed cloth was available, so we accepted a geometric micro print on a slate ground in place of the navy and ecru animal motif. The design was set to follow the original closely: a soft one-piece collar worn open in the camp manner, a plain French front, short sleeves, no pocket, a straight hem and mother of pearl buttons.
A smooth, lightweight cotton from Albiate, part of the Albini Group, woven in a single-ply 70s plain weave suited to fine printing. It is printed with tiny white and navy geometric shapes in a mosaic-like arrangement on a slate ground, and it handles crisply without feeling fragile.
- Composition
- 100% Cotton
- Weight
- lightweight
- Care
- Finish: No Treatment.
Options
- Collar
- Soft One Piece
- Cuffs
- Short Sleeve
- Placket
- Italian Front
- No Pocket
- Yoke
- One Piece Yoke
- Hem
- Straight Hem
- Buttons
- Mother of Pearl
- Stitching
- 0.25″ Stitching
- Adjustable cuffs
- No adjustable cuff buttons
$205
Opens with every option set. Choose your size there.