We’re watching The Killing (1956), and one of the characters is wearing an Izod Lacoste polo shirt with the crocodile on the tit. Have you ever had one of these shirts? (I’d make a poll, but I don’t know how to.)
I have never had one.
Those became very popular in the early 80s when the whole preppy craze was going on. My sister got me one. It was a great shirt but I cut off the alligator to avoid the affiliation. I remember that there were knockoffs that had a dragon in place of the alligator.
Not me but Weird Al has. Sorta.
I gonna buy me a condo
Gonna buy me a Cuisinart
Get a wall-to-wall carpeting
And get a wallet full ‘o credit cards, eh
I gonna buy me a condo, never have to mow de lawn
I gonna get me da T-shirt wit’ de alligator on
Yes, I’ve had several. Just last night I was thinking I need a new bright pink polo. Forever preppy.
Oh, yeah. We were po’ folk who lived in a very affluent area in SE Michigan (Birmingham Groves, for the Detroit area Dopers) during my high school days – early-80’s.
It was Izod (collar turned up half the time) and Sperry Topsiders all the way down.
Side note: anagramatically, is this thread connected to this thread?
Because in high school, I was strongly Lacoste intolerant.
I had an Izod bikini that my sister passed down.
Very cute, pink with a big alligator on the butt and the classic applique on front, right.
I wore it once. (Now I know why my sister didn’t wear it)
When wet, the pink allowed for too much not left to imaginations. 
I don’t know that I was ever a preppie, but I had a few.
You could wear them in places where t-shirts were frowned upon, and if you hung them up right after they came out of the dryer, you didn’t need to iron them.
I went to a private high school in New England in the 1970s, and that was pretty much the uniform. I myself didn’t wear Izod shirts that I recall, but the only shoes I ever wore were Sperry Topsiders.
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You liked wearing them because they were preppie and in style
I liked wearing them because I was a dorky kid who thought alligators were neat
We are not the same.
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Owned a number of them in the 80s. Match with your Member’s Only jacket for extra style.
Sure but you could just wear a generic polo shirt without the stupid alligator logo.
By the way, the cool kids at my school wore two layered polo shirts.
But it’s a fashionably overpriced alligator logo.
Obviously, you don’t understand the importance of that.
If I wore one in High School, I would have had to find new friends. The only polo shirts I have ever worn were part of a uniform provided by an employer (pizza delivery and cable TV) so I’m not a fan.
I checked not that long ago and the Lacoste shirts were about $120 vs a third or a quarter of that for other brands.
FWIW, it is a crocodile, not an alligator. It was the nickname of René Lacoste, a French tennis champion who started the Izod clothing line.
One year in middle school (early-mid 80s) I got an Izod shirt in every color, even pink (especially pink!). I wore them with my Members Only jacket and Kaepa shoes.
Yes, I had some back in the day.
Trash!
Sebago Docksides, all the way, baby!
I’m convinced that little polo player is made of gold thread as that’s the only justification I can see for them being so much more expensive than non-Polo brand polo shirts
Wait. Izod is a polo type shirt. Made by a tennis player. (Lacoste)
Polo is a Ralph Lauren menswear line.
One has an alligator (crocodile) one is a guy on a polo horse.
I believe they’re different.
Wow! That is way way overpriced.
While they are different, the Izod Lacoste polo was every bit as popular in the late 70s and 80s as the Ralph Lauren version has been in recent years. Also same basic concept. Well made, but still wildly overpriced shirts (My RLs today last far longer than my various Swag polos that I got from conferences or employers). As others have said, it was part of the preppy uniform for a while. I wore Lacoste shirts, 501 jeans, and either Topsiders or Clarks Desert Boots from Junior High on.