You must have run across one of my many Donmoor threads out there on the interwebs...I even wrote a piece about those for Rodderberry.com's old "Plasma Vent"
Here's one...
As for my Donmoor tunics, well...
My beloved Donmoor tunics, made in 1974. The green one there is mine.
My little green Donmoor shirt is the first piece of STAR TREK clothing I ever owned.
Back during the heyday of STAR TREK fandom (in the 1970's, the first wave of STAR TREK in wide US syndication) a children's clothing company named Donmoor was given a liscense to make all sorts of clothing for kids including a line of uniform shirts. Donmoor was given four color samples from Paramount Licensing when these shirts went into production. Gold, Blue, Red and Green from Kirk's wrap. When they went into production all four of the colors were changed to a darker shade. Who knows why, maybe they thought the darker colors would stand up better to the abuse of kids running and playing in them. Anyway, Command Gold became a dark mustard/orange/gold color, Sciences became a really dark blue, Eng Red became a blood red, and the Optional Command Green of Kirks wrap became an emerald green. All of the shirts regardless of division color had Command patches, and were short sleeved.
I had two actually. The green one above was given to me by my Mother when I was four years old. It's now one of my oldest and dearest possessions. I also had a gold one that I lost on my Grandfather's boat over 25 years ago, and then found on eBay a couple of years ago! Not another shirt, but the ACTUAL Shirt I lost so long ago on another coast. Years after my Mom, Dad, my kid brother and I moved to the west coast, and a few years before my Grandfather's death, the boat was sold to another family, and then stripped of everything. The shirt was found, and sold to a second hand store. Then a woman bought it and sent it to her Trekkie daughter, who years later put it up on eBay. I happen to be surfing ebay, find it, confirm it's provenance with the seller, and it sits in a shadow box in my office today. What are the odds of that?
Anyway, I've owned and loved that little green COMMAND shirt for 36 years now, and I dearly wish I could wear it one more time.
Actualy, James and Patty did give me a rather awesome gift earler in the year...
and Chani who makes the TOS t-shirts for Roddenberry.com and ThinkGeek gave me the only official green TOS t-shirt in the world.
You wanna talk green command shirts? How about those? I was actually fairly millitant about green command shirts. So you know I was a hold out in the whole 1st season was gold thing, but...well you know. I even created this image and used it as my avatar in the last war before I saw the truth...
So does anyone else remember wearing Donmoor shirts?
John
