When i was a kid, for one or two summers Lacoste was king. These things tend to ebb and flow, Nike managed to stay up top most of the time but the likes of Fila, ellesse and lacoste all traded places with each other for the lower positions. One particular summer whilst on a family trip to Marbella i decided that i should part with a considerable wedge of my holiday money, and i bought a pair of mint green Lacoste sweat bands (it was the eighties). Imagine my disappointment when i found that only one of the sweatbands had the lovely crocodile on. I went back to the shop to complain, but the shopkeeper told me that the little embroidered crocodiles were quite expensive to make, so they only used one per pair.
Bummer. Everyone at school decided that meant they were fakes, and the end of my summer was ruined, kinda.
The Campana brothers have just completed a collaboration with lacoste, some of which is quite nice, check it here: LINK. I can only imagine how expensive this shirt is, considering the apparently astronomical price of the little embroidered crocs...
What a great shirt agree with you on the probable price but then if the quality of manufacture reflects the quality of the design then it's ceratinly worth it. I want one!
Posted by: Michael Ohajuru | July 02, 2009 at 02:43 PM
should they not have left one croc out, just about where the croc normally goes? :-)
Posted by: BrazzaB | July 02, 2009 at 03:25 PM