This Orvis Bush Shirt seems to be an example of adequate design. It seems to have everything you need, nothing you don't (such as in this case, a stupid button-down collar [you may as well button your ears], overkill UPF 50 rated fabric, melting synthetics and excessively weighing tactical hidden pockets and mallwear vintage type of fashion casual design with ornaments and other ridiculous bells and whistles [I saw a shirt with epaulets sewed instead of with a button, snap or velcro which kind of ruins the function of epaulets]).

Here are the desirable features:
  • 100% cotton
  • roll-up sleeve tabs (to secure rolled up sleeves in active hot weather situations and still have the option of rolling them back down for protection against eventual bug attacks or an unexpected drop in temperature)
  • epaulets (to prevent an eventual shoulder strap from slipping while hiking)
  • side pocket (to store a pack of cigarettes hmmm,.. rather an Altoids tin crammed with life saving goodies)
  • two front pockets with flaps

Tilley makes a pretty similar safari shirt but in synthetics with crazy UPF rating and a crazy price rating too. I'm looking for something similar to Orvis, like in poplin cotton. (I think I'll have to look for "biological cotton" in our hypermodern outdoor stores or else I will have synthetics) Do you know other manufacturers that make this Indiana Jones type of shirt with all the features listed above that would be more likely available in Canada?

Thanks
Frankie