‘Far out’: Dell Bros. receives a fashion find from the ’60s

COLUMBUS, Ind. — ‘The style isn’t exactly “groovy” or “far-out.”

But for brothers Mike and Tom Dell, the discovery of a never-worn men’s dress shirt from their store dating back to near the Summer of Love (1967) is a pretty cool find.

On Jan 18, Brad Woodcock was looking over two carloads of donations to Sans Souci obtained from the home of a donor’s elderly relatives.

As the thrift store’s operations supervisor looked over the contributions, a gift box from Dell Bros. Inc., 416 Washington St., caught his eye. While the style isn’t much different than today’s fashions, Woodcock says it was the $4 price tag pinned to the Dell shirt that took him by surprise.

“I thought: ‘Man, how long has it been that a shirt at Dell Bros. sold for only four dollars?'” Woodcock said. “I took a couple of pictures of the shirt and the price tag and texted them to Tom Dell.”

After Dell saw the cost code on the price tag (60867 ARLĀ½ SFG), he said it made him feel a long-lost connection with his grandmother, Winifred Dell (1893-1978). The store’s former bookkeeper was the one who created the code that immediately informed her grandson it was a spring-fashion shirt from 1967.

For the complete story, see Sunday’s Republic.