Chilean Army ERDL Lightweight Hooded T-Shirt

Pattern: Chilean Army ERDL

This is a Chilean Army colourway based on the ERDL leaf pattern. ERDL — the Engineer Research and Development Laboratory pattern from the late 1940s — is the ancestor of modern woodland camouflage, built from irregular leaf-like blotches. This catalogue rendition re-colours those leaf shapes in an unusual purple-and-tan palette.

MegaCamo’s catalogue labels this the Chilean Army ERDL. On the image the soft leaf-shaped blotches are a mauve-purple, a pale tan, an olive-green and a near-black, arranged across the garment in the classic ERDL construction. The purple is the striking element; it is a colour-shifted rendition rather than a fielded uniform print.

On a long-sleeve shirt the purple-and-tan leaf shapes read as a bold, fashion-forward camouflage. The ERDL construction is unmistakable, but the purple palette turns it into a statement piece. It is one of the more unusual and eye-catching patterns in the range.

Why own it: the purple rendition of a classic ERDL is a genuinely distinctive, creative piece. It keeps a real camouflage lineage while adding an unmistakable purple colourway, so it stands out immediately as wearable art.

The garment. This is a lightweight long-sleeve hooded T-shirt, printed all over with the pattern you see on the image. It is cut with long sleeves and a hood and fits as a regular, athletic top. The fabric is a 94% polyester / 6% spandex blend, so it stretches with you, feels smooth against the skin and takes the all-over print cleanly. It is a lightweight piece — about 0.374 kg — and runs in sizes S to 3XL.

Fit and size. Because the sizes run S–3XL, pick the one closest to your usual top size; the stretch in the spandex gives a little forgiveness, but for a closer cut take a size down and for a looser, layer-over fit take a size up. The print is applied across the whole garment, so the pattern continues over the chest, arms and hood without a break.

Made to Order. Each shirt is printed and sewn after you place your order. Production and fulfilment take roughly 4 to 7 days before the item ships — that is the time to make and pack it, not the total delivery time, which then depends on transport once it leaves us. It is not sitting on a shelf, and that is what lets us offer patterns that would never be worth stocking.

Care. To protect the print, machine wash at or below 45°C, do not use bleach and avoid prolonged soaking. Launder on a normal cycle with like colours and don’t tumble dry hot. Cold, gentle washing is the best way to keep the colours bright.

Explore more. We carry this family of patterns across other garments and accessories, and you can browse the wider set in our world-wide ERDL variants collection, or see all the tops in this line in the lightweight hooded T-shirts collection.

Printed and sewn on order. Shipping directly after fulfillment from our supplier.

Note: You can ask us any camo on any of our products, just contact us via email.

You can find a list of all the currently available camouflages by country HERE: https://megacamo.com/list-of-camos-available/