Vintage Filson Pocket Tee Black Seattle Workwear USA Made 90s

A 90s black cotton pocket tee from Filson, made in the U.S.A., with the Seattle, WA tag that collectors look for. Single chest pocket, crewneck, the kind of quiet workwear staple that outlives whatever trend happens to be passing through.

Filson has been outfitting the Pacific Northwest since 1897, when C.C. Filson opened shop in Seattle to gear up prospectors heading to the Klondike Gold Rush. For over a century the brand has built its reputation on oil-finish tin cloth, Mackinaw wool, and an unfussy promise: Might As Well Have The Best. That promise carried through the 90s, when Filson’s domestic manufacturing was still humming along on American soil and a basic cotton pocket tee meant something specific — heavier weight, honest stitching, built to be worn into a second decade.

The pocket tee occupies a particular corner of the vintage workwear market. It’s the garment loggers, dock workers, and tradesmen grabbed by the stack, and it’s the one that almost never survived the wash cycles that put it through the wringer. Clean Filson blanks from the 90s with the Seattle tag intact have become a quiet collector category, hunted by the same people chasing Carhartt chore coats and Red Wing boots — buyers who understand that workwear hits different when it was actually built for work.

Faded just right, from a brand that still means what it says.