Shops & trade

Western shirts leave the workshop

A 1951 federal price order names Feldt Manufacturing Company of Temple, Texas in connection with Tem-Tex Western Shirts. U.S. Office of Price Stabilization, Federal Register, 22 August 1951, Special Order 420 ↗ Two years later, a Broadway Sporting Goods advertisement in Oakland offered “Tem-Tex and Calif. Ranchwear Western Shirts” to square dancers. Broadway Sporting Goods Store, Western Wear for Square Dancers, Let’s Dance!, September 1953 ↗ These records trace a named line and a later retail offer. They do not document a supply chain between the company and the Oakland shop.