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Stamford Connecticut Vintage Retro Unisex Embroidered Fleece Jacket - White Logo

Stamford Connecticut Vintage Retro Unisex Embroidered Fleece Jacket - White Logo

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The Stamford fleece, for the town that was Rippowam on the Sound. An authentic Columbia MTR fleece, full-zip, with the Stamford vintage retro logo embroidered on the chest in white thread.

This is the top of the Stamford range: a real Columbia blank, embroidered to order, warm, light and fast-drying. It is the jacket for early mornings, the sideline and the drive home, and the Stamford gift that gets opened and put on immediately. Made to order, so allow the embroidery time before the holidays.

This premium fleece jacket is custom embroidered to order on an authentic Columbia fleece jacket blank. Featuring Columbia’s soft, warm MTR fleece, this jacket combines trusted outdoor quality with personalized design. A warm, lightweight full-zip made from soft MTR-style filament fleece (~7.4 oz/yd²) with an athletic, easy-layering fit, and our vintage-retro logo cleanly embroidered on the chest. It delivers dependable insulation for cool days, dries fast, and moves comfortably for walks, errands, travel, or campfire nights. Classic details include a stand collar and clean lines that pair with everything. Care: Machine wash cold (gentle), dry flat, no bleach, no iron on decoration, no dry clean. Because embroidery uses thread (not ink), slight differences from the digital product image are normal and part of the process. Full details and care instructions are explained below in the page footer Embroidery note. Columbia® is a registered trademark of Columbia Sportswear Company. This product is independently customized and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Columbia.

The Siwanoy called this harbor Rippowam. The land deed was signed on July 1, 1640, about twenty-eight Puritan families from Wethersfield settled it in 1641, and it was renamed Stamford on April 6, 1642, for a town in Lincolnshire. The Boston Post Road came through in 1673, and in 1692 the town tried three of its own women as witches and hanged none.

Steamboats ran to New York from 1825 and the railroad followed in the 1840s; the Stamford Advocate of 1829 is the city’s oldest continuous business. The 1882 Stamford Harbor Light stands on Chatham Rock, the fish-shaped First Presbyterian Church is a mid-century landmark, and Shippan Point reaches into the Sound. Connecticut’s second-largest city is the mark on this piece.


QUICK FACTS — STAMFORD CT EMBROIDERED FLEECE JACKET

Town: Stamford, Connecticut

Founded: 1641 (deed 1640; renamed 1642)

Known for: Rippowam, a harbor town since 1641; the 1882 Stamford Harbor Light; the Fish Church; Connecticut’s second-largest city

Art: Stamford vintage retro logo, white (embroidered)

Blank: Authentic Columbia full-zip MTR fleece jacket, athletic easy-layering fit, stand collar

Fabric: MTR-style filament fleece, ~7.4 oz/yd²

Decoration: Chest embroidery, white thread

Care: Machine wash cold (gentle), dry flat, no bleach, no iron on decoration

Sizes: S, M, L, XL, 2XL

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Product FAQs

How does your sizing work?

Every item is made to order, so please check the size chart on this page before you buy. Women's fitted tees run small; size up for a looser fit. Caps are one size with an adjustable strap.

How are items made and when will they arrive?

We make each item to order using premium blanks, embroidery and soft-hand prints. Production takes 2-5 business days (weekends and holidays excluded), then 4-10 days in transit via USPS, UPS or FedEx to U.S. addresses; most orders arrive within 6-15 business days. You'll get a tracking link the moment it ships. Any current shipping offer is shown in the bar at the top of every page and applies automatically at checkout, no code needed.

How do I send a gift?

Enter the recipient's address as the shipping address and your own as the billing address at checkout. Nothing ships with a price; the package includes a plain packing slip. Tracking goes to your email, not theirs. For birthdays and holidays, order two weeks ahead to be safe.

What's the return policy?

Made-to-order items can't be returned or exchanged for size or color, so please use the size chart and photos before ordering. If anything arrives defective, misprinted or damaged, send a photo and your order number within 30 days and we'll replace it or refund you.

How do I care for my item?

Apparel: wash cold, inside out, with like colors; no bleach; tumble dry low or hang dry. Embroidered pieces: iron inside out to protect the stitching. Caps: spot clean. Printed glasses and water bottles: hand wash only, no dishwasher, so the artwork lasts. Mugs and engraved glasses are dishwasher safe. Any item-specific care notes are in the description above.

Who makes this?

Merlin Classics is a small Connecticut brand making original retro designs for the towns people love. Every piece is printed, embroidered or engraved to order in the USA, and the business supports hunger relief in the communities our collections celebrate.

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The settlers came from Wethersfield, upriver on the Connecticut, where a church quarrel had split the town. Under the Reverend Richard Denton they organized themselves as the Rippowam Company in October 1640; Denton’s household arrived in May 1641 and twenty-eight or twenty-nine Puritan families followed that spring, planting a town under the New Haven Colony’s rule. On April 6, 1642, they renamed it Stamford, after the stone market town in Lincolnshire some of them had known. Denton himself did not stay long; within a few years he had moved on to found Hempstead on Long Island. The families stayed, and the town they left behind lived by water for the next two centuries: coasting sloops to New York, cargoes to the West Indies, oysters off the harbor flats, mills on the Rippowam and the Noroton.

Before any of that, the harbor at the mouth of the Rippowam was Siwanoy country, and Rippowam was its name. On July 1, 1640, Captain Nathaniel Turner of the New Haven Colony signed a deed for the land with the Siwanoy sagamores Ponus and Wascussee, paying in coats, hoes, hatchets, mirrors, knives, two kettles and four fathoms of white wampum. Whatever each side believed it had agreed to, the price tells you how the English valued the place: as farmland by a navigable river, within sight of the Sound. The name Rippowam survives in the river that still runs through downtown to the harbor, and in this page’s habit of saying it first.

Why People Visit Stamford, CT

Stamford balances harbor and city — sailboats on the Sound, a downtown skyline, and four centuries of history from Rippowam to the rail line. It is a Gold Coast harbor town an hour from Manhattan, with the water, the parks, and that one-of-a-kind church on the hill. Increasingly it is also a town with a story to tell: the one that was asked to hang its witches in 1692 and signed a petition instead.

Stamford, Connecticut Merlin Classics retro vintage logo featuring an oyster shell over Connecticut Est. 1636