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Vintage tag dater

Photograph a shirt's tag and its stitching. We'll tell you roughly when it was made, and why.

Your photos

The tag

The stitching (a sleeve or the hem)

Anything printed on the back (Optional)

Your photos are read and then dropped. Nothing is saved unless you post the shirt.

When it was likely made

Add a photo of the tag, or fill in the details by hand, and the likely years show here.

A guide, not a guarantee.

How dating works

Shirt makers changed their tags over the years: the brand's logo, the country, the fabric line, the care symbols, even the stitching on the sleeve. Each change happened around a known time.

We read your tag, then check each clue against a table of those changes, built from public sources. Every clue narrows the years. The answer is a likely range, never one exact year, and every reason comes with its source.

It never says what a shirt is worth. And your photos are read and dropped, never kept.