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Always Different, Always The Same: Fred Perry

Fredrick John “Fred Perry” was a renowned championship-winning English tennis and table tennis player and former World No. 1 player with 10 majors including eight grand slams and two Pro slams single titles, as well as six Major double titles. An Austrian footballer Tibby Wegner who was famous for inventing an anti-perspirant device to be worn around the wrist approached Fred Perry in the late 1940s. Perry reformed it o transform it into the first sweatband. Next was a sports shirt, which was to be made from white knitted cotton pique with short sleeves and a buttoned placket like Rene Lacoste’s shirts. It was launched at Wimbledon in 1952 and by next morning it was a glorious success. It gained more popularity among the teenagers as early as in 1960s and 1970s, including those involved with the skinheads to the Northern soul scenes.
The original symbol for Wimbledon ended up becoming the brand’s logo, which is a Laurel Wreath. Now the brand is owned by a Japanese corporation.
Clothing for men includes The Fred Perry shirts, Pique shirts, coats and jackets, trousers, T-shirts and woven shirts. The Fred ...
... Perry shirts are made in England. The first are the original twin tipped cotton pique shirt and each color way tells its own story, available in colors from white, ice, maroon, champagne, gold, navy, fluro green to graphite marl, blood, kingfisher and cobalt. The regular fit twin tipped shirt comes alongside a history. While the slim fit twin tipped shirt is ‘the shirt that fits’. Next the original one color Fred Perry shirt was designed and worn by Fred himself. Also available are the long sleeve Fred Perry shirts.
The T-shirts are no less variable in style and simplicity- crew neck T-shirt, textured pique, Breton stripe, textured laurel wreath T-shirt, patch pocket, gingham pocket and zip neck T-shirt. Also there are bold tipped pique shirt, block panel, gingham trim, lindsay tartan trim pique, camo zip, woven trim et cetera.
Shoes by Fred Perry are sectioned under names such as Northgate, Byron, Ealing, Howells, Kendrick, Kingston, Lawson, Newburgh, Southall, Spencer, Stockport, Umpire, Reissues and Exhibition. They are not just limited to sport purpose but serves all occasions merrily. Some are leather while others suede in colors from dark chocolate, black, tan, cloudburst, carbon blue, sand, mid grey, white, port to British olive, forest night, falcon grey, England red, porcelain, chestnut, sub blue, oaktan, burgundy and forest night.
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