Shirts with the little alligator

Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan

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Anybody remember those shirts that had the tiny alligator on the left chest area? Are they still around? As I recall, they were quite expensive (for a shirt). I've never owned one but I remember the snooty crowd wearing them in high school. Has yet another a piece of Americana gone by the wayside?
 
Izod. Izod Lacoste, actually. Back in the heydey of their snob appeal, my dad made up a ratty T-shirt with a hand-drawn gator on same he'd wear to BBQs....

It's sort of a sore point with me, this business of proudly showing off the brand of whatever thing you happen to wear. To my mind, if I'm wearing a shirt that has "Calvin Klein" plastered all over it, Calvin should be paying me for advertising, eh?

The "Tommy Hilfiger" T-shirt you might pay 30.00 for at the snooty mall store is probably coming out of the same factory in Taiwan as the 10.00 shirt from K-Mart without Tommy's name all over it.
 
Yuppies. No thanks.

On the yuppie forums they are probably posting " can you believe people actually carry a knife and a flashlight everywhere, what idiots."

Travis
 
These shirts are Lacoste brand- still available at Macy's, Belk, and Dillards nationwide. Izod apparel is a separate brand and cheaper- basically just any type of clothing they can find and put the Izod label on.
 
travistheone said:
On the yuppie forums they are probably posting " can you believe people actually carry a knife and a flashlight everywhere, what idiots."
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Well, the flashlight maybe. I can see that. I mean what if you were shopping and the lights went out? How would you see the cloths?

And what if you're at a party and they turn the lights down? How will you know what anyone else is wearing?.... on second thought, how will anyone else know what you're wearing!?! You need that flashlight to shine on your own labels so that people will know how much money you spend on cloths. [/sarcasam]
 
I remember a cold war movie where the character played by Roy Schieder made a comment about the shirts with little crocodiles on them that did little for the sales of the shirts. The film was called "The Fourth War". If you watch it you will know what I mean.
 
Harry Callahan said:
Anybody remember those shirts that had the tiny alligator on the left chest area? Are they still around? As I recall, they were quite expensive (for a shirt). I've never owned one but I remember the snooty crowd wearing them in high school. Has yet another a piece of Americana gone by the wayside?
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MMMMMMMMMMM I thought they came from france.
 
Ask for Pique polos and you'll be fine. There are a LOT of options available other than the little croc. A few of my polos have little orange tigers on them. They go great with the knife and flashlight I carry just about everywhere now. . .

Actually, come to think of it, I read somewhere that the crocodile comes from a French tennis player named Lacoste who was nicknamed "Le Crocodile" for his style of play. How's that for uber-snobbish? :D
 
I was going to get the alligator tattooed on my chest and just cut holes in my shirts.

Win
 
I don't care where I get my duds as long as I get a good deal on them. Except for Wrangler jeans, most clothes from Walmart don't hold up. I've gotten some good deals at the local Burlington Coat Factory. Why someone would pay 80 bucks for a pair of jeans is beyond me, but I got them for about 10 bucks. I bought a couple shirts last week, and had to excercise restraint to not cut the little emblem on the left front off.
 
It's sort of a sore point with me, this business of proudly showing off the brand of whatever thing you happen to wear. To my mind, if I'm wearing a shirt that has "Calvin Klein" plastered all over it, Calvin should be paying me for advertising, eh?
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It's the same with me. I've worn plenty of shirts with advertising on them, but all of them were given to me by company reps. I even got more free shirts by wearing a competitor's shirt in front of them (the only exception was HK, whose instructors mentioned it but wouldn't cough up). It seems to me to be the ultimate advertising coup. I make a shirt with an iconic logo, which I then sell at an inflated price vs. the same shirt without a logo, and I sell more for each one I sell because of the lemming-like wearers.
 
Well in the days past, that little alligator was sewn onto the best shirts made. it was the start of market logo's.

I still have shirts from the 70's with that little gator sewn on there, they were pure egyptian long fiber cotton, that stayed soft forever, never got boardy feeling like some cotton made stuff. The correct Izod Lacoste shirts used to have only french wording inside the labels. anything with english in it was either Paste or stuff that caused the original company to seek bankruptcy, I forget who the american importer was, but he finagled some sort of a ruling more or less saying that he owned the brand in the USA< and he drove the product into the ground, nearly killed the French mother company and ended up with the IZOD name being owned by some "value added marketing consortium"

The original is still good stuff. now they have miracle fabrics and stuff but the good shirts are still made in cotton and will last for ever.
 
You guys... you should come to europe if you want over priced quality polo shirt choice

Fred Perry
Le Coque
Lacoste
Ralph Lauren
Le shark

Ralph lauren polo shits cost the equivalent of about $110 here, a le shark one would set you back even more...
 
i dont know about the shirts....but i have some boxers with little crabs in them.:thumbdn:

gotta go see the doctor:)
 
Harry Callahan said:
Anybody remember those shirts that had the tiny alligator on the left chest area? Are they still around? As I recall, they were quite expensive (for a shirt). I've never owned one but I remember the snooty crowd wearing them in high school. Has yet another a piece of Americana gone by the wayside?
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I had some shirts and pant with little alligators on them. and some with bears,elephants, and lions - they were called Garanimals, and they helped us style-challenged kids look slick in grade school.
 
"..Anybody remember those shirts that had the tiny alligator on the left chest area? Are they still around? As I recall, they were quite expensive (for a shirt). I've never owned one but I remember the snooty crowd wearing them in high school. Has yet another a piece of Americana gone by the wayside?.."

The shirts are French Harry. Rene Lacoste was a tennis player in the fifties.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Lacoste

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacoste

From Wikepedia....

"There are numerous explanations of why Lacoste was originally nicknamed the Crocodile (or the Alligator). A 2006 New York Times obituary about Lacoste's son, Bernard, provides an apparently authoritative one. In the 1920s, supposedly, Lacoste made a bet with his team captain about whether he would win a certain match. The stakes were a suitcase he had seen in a Boston store; it was made of crocodile (or alligator) skin. Later, René Lacoste's friend Robert George embroidered a crocodile onto a blazer that Lacoste wore for his matches"
 
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