Fáilte romhaibh go léir go dtí an leathanach seo. Built for that date with Lady Luck, the Classic Mambo Loud Shirt comes up trumps in all fashion stakes. It's light and comfortable, and matches exactly the loud décor of most Australian casinos. And at the end of the night, when the croupier puts his hand out for the shirt of your back, you can lay odds that a Mambo Loud Shirt will cover every bet.
Officially launched in 1984 by Mambo legend Dare Jennings, although rooted in an ancient, pseudo-mythological tradition of textile design, the Mambo shirt is today one of Australia's most iconic post-fashion articles. 'MAMBO' is an an acronym for 'Methods of Acquiring Models, Bucks and Opiates', a mission statement as relevant for us here today at Vintage Mambo Wicklow as it was at the company's inception. Jennings commissioned troops of free-lance artists from around the globe to design the various prints, none so as important as 'Mambo spiritual father' and Kiwi art-rocker Reg Mombassa. The loud shirt's life ended with the changing of ownership and subsequent rebranding of the company in the mid naughties. The shirt then migrated to a more boreal region, atop the heavy breathing of Zephyrus, leaving behind its native Australia, eventually settling amidst the primordial downs and glens of the Wicklow foothills. A critically endangered beast, get your vintage mambo shirt before they are all gone; If not for yourself, for posterity, so that all future generations may too experience the divinely inspired beauty that is mambo loud shirt, and so she herself might live forever. Go dtaga an ré órga'n Mhambó arís!
