Rowing Blazers

Dodo Rugby Overshirt

Available
195.00

Rowing Blazers

Dodo Rugby Overshirt

Available
195.00

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  • Super heavyweight (400g/14oz) rugby overshirt featuring a hand-embroidered goldwork-enhanced dodo patch on the left chest. Knit in the traditional 12-gauge style on vintage looms in Portugal.

  • Rugby collar. Seven-button front. 1x1 rib-knit cuffs. Sewn patch. 100% organic cotton. Made in Portugal.

    Care instructions: Because of the delicate nature of the hand-embroidered wire bullion goldwork, this item can not be machine-washed. Dry clean only.

  • Unisex. This rugby overshirt fits true-to-size (men’s sizing).


  • At once noble and tragic, enshrined in history and yet shrouded in myth, the lovable dodo — last seen around 1662 — represents Rowing Blazers’ winking, studious irreverence. The extinct, flightless bird has since come to represent obsolescence and ineffectuality, and has been featured in everything from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to Hilaire Belloc’s Bad Child’s Book of Beasts (from 1896):

    The Dodo used to walk around,
    And take the sun and air.
    The sun yet warms his native ground -
    The Dodo is not there!
    The voice which used to
    squawk and squeak
    Is now for ever dumb -
    Yet may you see his bones and
    beak All in the Mu-se-um.