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Vintage Summit 11: A Vintage Summit of the industry's leading eccentrics discussing vintage clothing.

After a year's absence, Vintage Summit, a discussion of vintage clothing among vintage enthusiasts, is back after a long absence. Tomohiro Konno, Michihiko Kurihara, Fujihara Yutaka, and Takashi Abe, four regular members who boast the best personal collections and overwhelming knowledge in the scene, will bring in items and categories that they are interested in recently, or topics they want to share with the members, and will dig deep into them while digressing as usual. They will dig deep into the topic with their usual digressions.

Photo_Fumihiko Ikemoto

Text_Takehiro Hakusui

Edit_Yosuke Ishii

I'm always on the lookout for the rare, even in the collegiate world."

HARVARD UNIVERSITY T-SHIRT RARE PRINT

Konno:Next is college T-shirts. We picked an oddball Harvard University aperture with a non-English motif in another language.

Abe:Is this official?

Konno:What do you think?

Kurihara:But even if it wasn't official, I don't think it was made for fashion at that time, and I think it was made as a parody by the school's clubs, students, etc. But what language is it in? (I used the Google Lens translation function.) This one seems to be in German.

The school emblem of Harvard University includes "VERITAS," which means "truth" in Latin, as its school philosophy, but the German version is "Vas Ist Das. The German version is "Vas Ist Das." The literal translation into English is "What Is This," which means that it is a parody.

Konno:This one is in Chinese.

Fujiwara:The Chinese one looks like it was made by Champion in the '80s, and even if it wasn't a rare item, it's all valuable enough as vintage clothing.

Abe:Did you consciously collect them?

Konno:I tried to buy them whenever I saw them.

Abe:Especially just Harvard?

Konno:I don't think that part was that important, but I felt like I was checking it out as a rare piece of collegiate stuff.

Abe:I see. But I've certainly never seen anything like this before. I used to have "Havado" in katakana, so I knew about it. Are the originals expensive?

Fujiwara:Yes, it is. However, since it is a champion body and a popular Harvard one at that time ('80s), I can say that it is priced accordingly.

Kurihara:But really, if you think about the last few years, the market for college stuff, especially t-shirts, has calmed down a lot from its peak, hasn't it? Especially Yale and Harvard.

Fujiwara:It certainly feels like we have passed the peak. Also, at one time, the popularity was concentrated on the basic type with a gray body and school name imprinted on the print, but we are beginning to see a change in that trend.

Abe:Really?

Fujiwara:Oh, but I'll get to that later. It's one of my stories (laughs).

Abe:Excuse me (laughs).