OK, we're all familiar with the info about the original Raiders shirt from the main site:
Here's what I want to know: Where did the pleats (or strips or whatever the actual technical term for them is) come from? Yes, from designer Andreas Dometakis--but you don't just go, "You know what this poplin bush shirt needs? Vertical strips of cloth in place of military creases." (Or do you?) Epaulettes make sense from a functional standpoint, but what's the point of the strips?"The Indiana Jones shirt is based on a typical safari-style shirt. Its distinctive feature is two vertical strips running from the shoulders to the bottom of the shirt tails and continued over both breast pockets."
There must have been an inspiration piece, right? So what was it? Were there period military/safari shirts that had that particular detail? Does anyone have pictures? (I just perused a bunch of early-80s Banana Republic catalog pages at Abandoned Republic http://scottcadams.com/bananarepublic/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and didn't see a single vertical pleat.)
Please help me.