Norm Thompson is a mail order clothing brand which is being discontinued. Apparently their parent company Bluestem Group announced this back on January 31, 2019 but I didn't get the word until a few days ago when I received in the mail their "Final Sale" catalog. I was a bit sad to learn they were closing because I have been wearing their "Shikari" shirts for many years. Judging by old photos my mother started giving them to me in 2003. I like shirts with front pockets to help hold some of the junk I carry around and the Shikari shirts have two so they quickly became my favorite shirt. Although I continued wearing other shirts for some time as my mother was only giving me a few shirts a year. In fact I was a little surprised to find a photo of me wearing a different shirt as late as 2013. However in recently years I have worn the Shikari shirts almost exclusively.
Norm Thompson mostly sold women's clothing but they did have a small men's section in their catalogs. Some of their offerings are being picked up by Appleseed's, a Bluestem brand which sells women's clothing exclusively. Perhaps another Bluestem brand which sells men's clothes (such as Blair or Haband) will pick up the Shikari shirts. If not I do have about 40 of them at this point which is enough to last me for some time.
The photo was taken July 2007 in a sleeper compartment on an Amtrak train in Florida. Around the time the train ran into a flatbed truck someone had managed to get hung up on the rails at a grade crossing. Fortunately no one was seriously injured but we had to finish our trip by bus. It shows me wearing a short sleeved (there is also a long sleeved version) Shikari shirt.
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