Casgliadau Arlein
Amgueddfa Cymru
Chwilio Uwch
Polo shirt
Green, long-sleeved polo shirt worn by supermarket worker, Samantha Summers, at an Asda store in Cardiff during COVID-19 pandemic.
"[I'm] up at 1.30am to start work in Cardiff Asda at 3am. Spend 5 hours picking customers online food shopping before the shop opens (they have moved our hours to nights to protect us from the public) then home at 8.30am" (Samantha Summers, Collecting Covid: Wales 2020 questionnaire).
Main fabric of shirt is a knitted construction but it has a finely textured appearance. Collar of green twill woven fabric. 4 green button fastening at neck opening. Neck facing of white twill fabric printed with blue and green diagonal stripes. This same twill fabric is used as piping across the front of the shoulders as well as underneath the yoke on the back. 4.5cm long slits at lower side seams. 6cm wide cuffs of a jersey woven fabric. Company logo machine embroidered in white synthetic thread on right chest and upper left sleeve. Embroidery reinforced with white non-woven synthetic material on the inside. Manufacturer's label with woven logo 'dimensions' at inner neck. Spare button attached to care label at inner left side seam.