Name: US ARMY UTILITY SHIRT P-58 P58 1960'S 7TH ARMY SPECIALIST E5 PATCH SIZE SMALL
SKU: 283866

The Army's first pattern utility shirt was standardized in 1958¹ and replaced the near identical utility jacket. It was made from olive green (OG-107) 8.5oz cotton sateen and boasted two patch pockets with straight cut flaps. The shirt also had an unusually low first button and no button cuffs.

Designed to be loose fitting, it was typically worn over a and was tucked into the . Though the lighter and quicker drying had been developed in 1962, three years prior to the introduction of U.S ground troops in Vietnam, the utility shirt and trousers were still worn by infantrymen early in the war.

1. Military Specification MIL-S-3001C. (17 October 1958)

The Seventh Army was a United States army created during that evolved into the (USAREUR) during the 1950s and 1960s. It served in North Africa and Italy in the and France and Germany in the between 1942 and 1945.