Lacoste is a French fashion company best known for its polo shirts and for the small green crocodile that serves as its logo. It was founded in the early 1930s by the tennis champion Rene Lacoste together with the knitwear manufacturer Andre Gillier. Lacoste, nicknamed the Crocodile by the press during his playing career, had begun wearing a loose, short-sleeved cotton piqué shirt on court as an alternative to the stiff long-sleeved shirts then customary. The company turned that design into a commercial product, and it became a popular casual garment worldwide. Today Lacoste sells clothing, footwear and accessories in many countries.
Before and after
- 1933Discovery of Harbin cranium
- 1933Construction of Sydney Airport
- 1933Origins of Ligue 2
- from 1933 to 1945The Holocaust
- 1933Construction of Lacoste
- 1933Enabling Act of 1933
- 1933Construction of Heydar Aliyev International Airport
- 1933Karl Jansky detects radio waves from the Milky Way
- 1933Fritz Zwicky infers dark matter
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