Vintage Arrow Kent Collection Dress Shirt Avocado Green 70s

A 1970s Arrow Kent Collection dress shirt in avocado green, Drake II model, cotton-polyester blend, Sanforized, Decton Perma Iron, Made in USA. This is a time capsule of 70s menswear in one of the decade’s most iconic colorways.

Avocado green wasn’t just a shirt color in the 1970s — it was a lifestyle. It was on the refrigerator, the shag carpet, the bathroom tile, and the dress shirt your dad wore to the office. Arrow was one of the big American dress shirt manufacturers of the 20th century, and their Kent Collection was a mid-range line positioned between everyday basics and premium dress wear. The Drake II collar style was designed for the wider tie knots and longer collar points that defined 70s business attire — a silhouette that looks nothing like what you’d find on a dress shirt rack today.

“Sanforized” means the fabric was pre-shrunk using a specific mechanical process patented in the 1930s — it’s a quality indicator that told buyers the shirt wouldn’t shrink more than 1% after washing. “Decton Perma Iron” was Arrow’s branded wrinkle-resistant finish — their answer to the easy-care revolution that made cotton-poly blends the default for office wear in this era.

Every detail on this shirt — the color, the collar, the fabric technology, the brand hierarchy — places it precisely in its decade. It couldn’t have come from any other time.