Unfamiliar M81 pattern shirt

[mysteriousoozlefinch]

I passed this up initially.  It has two breast pockets, cut like the old OG-107 utility shirt more or less.  No markings on the inside or in the pockets.  It's not rip-stop material.  There's an OD-shirt style size tag and a sewn in section of white cotton tape with a laundry mark, which is what made me think it was possibly US military used.  Anyone seen something like this before?  There were two identical shirts at the thrift store, same laundry mark so it happened at least twice!

 

 

 

 

[CavalryCombatant]

My first thought was commercial copy, but with the laundry number I’m not so sure.. whatever it is I really like it- did you grab the second one as well?

[mysteriousoozlefinch]

Same.  The lack of any other marking kinda threw me and the longer I looked the odder it seemed.  I did end up getting both, hah, price wasn't bad.

[VMI88]

I responded to your other thread but I'll put the same information here for the record.

 

I see the original poster is located in Virginia so I assume these shirts were found here as well.  I'm pretty sure they're from VMI, around the early to mid 90's.  I graduated in 1988 and we still used the old OG fatigues at that time, even though the military had gone to BDUs/woodland camo.  Sometime soon after I graduated VMI adopted a woodland camo uniform, but it was a strange commercial pattern, not a standard BDU.  (Leave it to VMI to force cadets to buy a unique uniform they couldn't wear after graduation!)  The laundry mark stamped in the collar of the shirt looks like a VMI laundry mark.

 

If they do turn out to be VMI, I'd be interested in buying or trading for one of them.

[mysteriousoozlefinch]

Although this thread is over a year old, I'm back to add some more information.  I have acquired a Virginia Defense Force woodland camouflage BDU-styled jacket made of the same or similar material with similar notched-corner upper pockets and lower pockets that may have been later additions or modifications.  Notably, this one does have a manufacturer tag for Virginia Correctional Enterprises, the state's prison industry system.  Dates to the 1996-2000s era of white name tapes with black lettering which would be roughly contemporaneous to this shirt.  Nothing definitive, but I thought it was worth adding.