I guess I’m not up with the latest fashion trends. I bought this Tommy Hilfiger vest two days ago. Macy’s still has a large Tommy Hilfiger collection.
I will never forget the day in the early 1990s (circa 1993, maybe 1994) when I was on a NYC subway and a homeless-looking guy (nearly naked, in fact, with no shirt on and extremely ragged looking pants) got on and started railing against the degenerate fashion of the times, how all these fools thought that they somehow looked better off “with their pants around their asses, flashing all that gold and wearing the Tommy Hill-Finder”.
Gold chains and big baggy pants still appear to be “in” over 15 years later, but indeed, “the Tommy Hill-Finder clothing” (as I and the two friends who were with me at the time always call it now) is hard to spot on the street.
I still occasionally buy TH clothing. At one point all my boxer briefs and white socks were TH. As TH socks got herder to find I changed all of them to Adidas. I’ve never been willing to pay full price for TH and refuse to buy anything that has their name or logo on it bigger then a pocket type symbol. So with those restrictions I’ve only ever bought what’s filtered into discount stores or discount racks.
I have a leather TH jacket I like a lot though I’ve gotten a little to fat for it. Last time few times it was used was to dress up straight friends for dates when they failed to have anything of style. If I ever get my weight back down it will see use again.
That vest is really cute. I have a few like it from New York and Company.
I think Tommy makes really cute women’s clothes still - preppy argyle and striped polos and sweaters mostly. A lot of their guy’s stuff got flashy in a really ugly way - too much bright yellow and orange all mixed together, big logos. Their plainer stuff is nice but then it’s also replicated for cheaper elsewhere - a guy can get a plain or striped polo that looks pretty good at Target for $15, why buy a Tommy one?
This is exactly what I came in to say. It’s so funny that so many in this thread are saying Tommy brand is dead- not at all. Now, is Tommy the super hip thing to wear right now? No, but that preppy style isn’t really in at the moment as far as trendy stuff goes. But his classic pieces? They’re everywhere, particularly in department stores.
Just yesterday, I was at Macy’s and the single biggest collection they had was the Tommy Women’s collection- it took up a solid 1/3 of an entire floor- a bunch of khakis and polos and button ups and shit I hate, but still.
** Edit to add:** The second half of my post after the second half of the post before me is pretty funny, ngl 
Interesting article in the NY Times back in May:
Tommy Hilfiger Replants His American Flag.
I’m with some of the above posters. Clothes need to look good without a logo for me to be interested. Clothes that are a logo are wholly ignored.
Dassler is the name. Adolf (Adi), and Rudolf.
Tommy clothes have never been that big downunder, I buy their polos but only because I live in polos and they are available for $20 at the local factory outlet stores. The only other time I got one was when I was in Bermuda, even then it was discounted!
I would disagree. I bought a Hilfiger rugby-style shirt for my husband in a overstock store about ten years ago. He wore it for at least five years before he snagged it on a nail; I still have it.
I’ve been wearing it for gardening, brush clearing, ditch digging, carpentry, painting, staining … it will not die.
I never liked the brand, but it was good quality.