60’s Miller Stockman Western Chambray Pearl Snap Shirt (Men’s L)

Late 1960’s - Early 1970’s Vintage Miller Stockman Western Denim Pearl Snap Shirt

Made in the Denver, Colorado USA

Fits Men’s/Unisex Size: Large

Tagged Size: 16x34

Color: Medium Wash Blue

Material: 100% Cotton - Chambray

Bust: 21.5” flat

Length: 33”

Shoulders: 18”

Sleeve: 24”

Brand: Miller Stockman

• Pearl Snaps
• Single Point Flap Snap Chest Pockets
• 3-Snap Button Sleeve Cuff
• Extra Long Tail Rounded Hem
• Light Weight
• Relaxed Fit

Awesome lightly distressed vintage condition with signs of wear. Fraying on collar tip, small pinholes on sleeves, some spots of stretched seams w/ light fraying, dark discoloration on shoulder. 
The material and care label has faded thru and is unreadable.

About Miller Stockman Brand:

In 1918, Philip Miller got off the train at Denver’s Union Station with a sample case of Miller Brothers cowboy hats, most of his worldly possessions and a persistent cough. When he arrived, the American West was still largely wild and sparsely populated, but the former gold-mining camp was already a teeming metropolis with nearly 250,000 people. Denver buried the Old West, along with Buffalo Bill on nearby Lookout Mountain, the year before, and commerce was the new frontier. Little did this sickly hat drummer know he would help define the New West and launch an industry.

Miller, in his late 20s, had been dispatched to Denver from New York City by his hat-making brothers. His job was to open new sales territories for the family business. Denver was chosen as his base not so much for its bustling economy but for its dry mountain air. They hoped it would help ease his fight with tuberculosis. A family member would later say that he went to Denver to die, but didn’t get around to it until he was in his 80s.

Miller thrived in his new location, and he launched his own business: Miller Hat Co. Traveling extensively throughout the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains states, he called on small town mercantiles and remote ranches to sell cowboy hats. The farmers and cowboys he dealt with were having trouble getting boots, clothes, saddles and other necessities for life in the West. Seeing an opportunity, Miller started the Stockman-Farmer Supply Co. and published his first catalog in 1923. He soon amended his company’s name to Miller Stockman Supply Co. and expanded the scope of his business. By the mid-1930s, he was manufacturing clothes for ranchers and cowboys as Miller Western Wear.

Fast forward to the 1980s. Philip Miller had retired in 1962, and the company he founded was a full-blown conglomerate called Miller International Inc. The company included the original Miller Stockman catalog division, 30 Miller Stockman retail stores, Miller Western Wear shirt manufacturing and Rocky Mountain brand jeans for women. “Rockies” were not the standard Western five-pocket, boot cut denim jeans. They offered a flattering fit and unique styling that quickly became the company’s best-selling product. In 1992, Miller Western Wear was renamed the Rocky Mountain Clothing Co., and the last shirt with Miller’s name on the label was produced.

Rocky Mountain Clothing Co. introduced mainstream Cinch jeans and shirts for men in 1996. Aside from the evocative name and its availability from Western stores and catalogs, there was nothing intrinsically Western about the line. Two years later, Cruel Girl debuted as a female version of Cinch.

In 1999, 76 years after Philip Miller published his first catalog, Miller Int’l sold off the catalog and the retail stores as the company focused on its manufacturing and design business. Despite the fact that the last Miller Stockman catalog was mailed to more than three million customers, Philip Miller’s name all but disappeared from the Western market.