I often see pictures of Fred Bear and many of the older archery legends of days gone by and I always notice the plaid, flannel shirts they use to wear. I buy as many of the old Pendelton, Woolrich and LL Bean that I can find, I do not like the new stuff much. its a shame that you don't see any of that type of clothing for sale anymore do to the bog companies that sell all the high tech camo. i just love to hunt in the older plaid style from days gone by, wish a company ( USA made ) would sell a line of the "throw back" style clothes.

I hear ya BUT!!! Everybody is all about the camo. It by far is probably the highest selling item in the hunting industry, besides the old school guys didn't know you were supposed to hunt in camo.LOL

Check with Orvis...they may have what you are looking for

DDave

I thought classic bowman woolens carried that type of stuff. Don't know if they're still I business or availability, but they had some patterns that closely matched fred bears wool shirt. Bit pricier than salvation army finds though!

I have also found some real gems at Salvation Army a lot of my hunting clothes come from there. Every time someone about talks me into some high dollar camo I just think back to Fred or old Bob hunting in blue jeans and a t shirt.
Movement > camo

I hunt in flannel and then wool plaid when it gets cold as much as possible the last few years. Really like how quiet it is and it just feels right      



Tracy

http://www.classicsportsman.com/shirts.html

There are a number of companies, try searching for sportsman wool shirts, or combinations of.  I found this one that makes the Fred Bear Shirt.

QuoteOriginally posted by adkmountainken:
I often see pictures of Fred Bear and many of the older archery legends of days gone by and I always notice the plaid, flannel shirts they use to wear. I buy as many of the old Pendelton, Woolrich and LL Bean that I can find, I do not like the new stuff much. its a shame that you don't see any of that type of clothing for sale anymore do to the bog companies that sell all the high tech camo. i just love to hunt in the older plaid style from days gone by, wish a company ( USA made ) would sell a line of the "throw back" style clothes.

Check out Stormy Kromer. Best flannel shirts available, made right here in the UP.

Wow check out the classic sportsman  timber pattern, that looks like top notch camo to me. Those plaid quivers are pretty sweet too

I just ended up on the Woolrich site...they certainly appear to still make wool plaid shirts in the USA...the term sticker shock applies

DDave

Woolrich and LL Bean still make some quality shirts. A lot of what you see in the old photos are trill shirts, not flannel, and those are hard to find but good ones wear well. Amazingly, there are some good deals on quality used outdoor clothing on ****.

I love those plad flanel shirts too .

Roger beat me to Stormy Kromer but he FAILED to mention Asbels plaid wool clothing line also made right here in Michigan, lol

Been wearing an LL Bean for many many years.  For the price it is hard to beat.

Though I do have quite a bit of camo wool, I've been wearing wool plaids forever.  Just about all my bowhunting garments are wool.  Warm when you need them to be, and cool enough when you don't. Quiet, tough, easy to care for, and they look good.  

I wear a lot of L.L. Bean, Woolrich and Pendleton stuff.  I'll second the Classic Sportsman wool.  Almost too pretty to wear in the woods.

Plaid was the original (excluding animal skins) camo.  Breaks up the human form with the blocks.  I like the large block plaid which seems to have come back into "fashion" this year. A lot of flannel shrinks up, unless it is from a better company like Beans.

WOW! $199 for one shirt.   :eek:

I have Woolrich and Classic Sportsman wool plaids.  Got them in light and heavy weights and then also have some cotton flannel for warm weather.  I also prefer the more classic looking solid earth tone hues and plaids for hunting.  For really really hot weather I still go to my synthetic predator camo shirts made for extreme warm weather since our season opens in August and temps can be in 90s during day.....

QuoteOriginally posted by Jon Stewart:
Roger beat me to Stormy Kromer but he FAILED to mention Asbels plaid wool clothing line also made right here in Michigan, lol

Well heck Jon, I though that was a given    

I always bought Walmart and Kmart flannel shirts, that is until I got an LL Bean gift certificate. I bought two flannel shirts for a lot more money than I was used to paying and found the quality was worth the extra cost, perfect fit and no shrinking.

With elcheapo flannel shirts, they got smaller every time I washed them.