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Whether it’s Madras Shirts or Bermuda shorts, patch madras plays a central role in the American aesthetic we know as “prep”. The fabric’s roots in this country are found in the preparatory school and ivy league wardrobes, but, as most things that are considered examples of American culture, it’s adopted from a different part of the world. Colonial Britain was the first to wear madras, naming it after the Indian city it is manufactured in (Now known as Chennai). Madras fabric eventually came to the United States via the prep authority of the world, Brooks Brothers, and has been a been essential to the modern prepster’s repertoire ever since.