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Beige Cotton Safari Jacket with Four Pockets

1970s · 1970s · American

Designer

Dorso

Production

ready-to-wear

Material

cotton twill

Culture

American

Movement

Hippie / Counterculture

Influences

military field jacket · colonial safari wear

A khaki cotton safari-style jacket featuring the characteristic four-patch pockets with button-down flaps, two on the chest and two at the hip level. The garment displays a relaxed, boxy silhouette typical of 1970s leisure wear, with a standard shirt collar and full-length sleeves with button cuffs. The jacket closes with white buttons down the front placket and shows utilitarian construction with topstitched seams. This style emerged from military and colonial hunting attire but was adapted for civilian casual wear during the counterculture movement, representing a shift toward more relaxed, practical clothing that rejected formal business dress conventions.

jacketregular fithip length

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Beige Cotton Safari Jacket with Four Pockets

Influences·military field jacket

SHARED50 years · cross-culture

Both jackets trace their lineage to the military field jacket, but they've traveled different paths to get there. The beige safari jacket from the '70s stays true to its colonial officer roots with that crisp, tailored silhouette and regimented four-pocket layout—it's adventure wear for the country club set.

Echoes Across Time

1990s → 1970s · 50yr65%

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SHARED50 years · cross-culture

That slouchy olive coat and the crisp safari jacket are separated by four decades but united by the same military DNA — both descendants of field jackets that promised adventure beyond the barracks. The 1970s safari shirt plays it straight with its disciplined button line and symmetrical chest pockets, while the 2010s coat loosens the whole proposition into something more like borrowed-from-your-boyfriend chic, complete with that languid drape and utilitarian hood.

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VISUAL ECHOsame era · cross-culture · cross-category

These two pieces reveal how the 1970s leisure revolution created an unexpected visual kinship between utility and luxury. The safari jacket's crisp military pockets and structured shoulders find their echo in the silk shirt's precise collar points and button-front geometry, both rendered in that distinctly '70s palette of warm neutrals that made everything from boardrooms to beach clubs feel like extensions of the same sun-drenched fantasy.

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