Vintage Izod Lacoste Raglan Track Jacket Made in Sri Lanka - Blue and Cream

The label dates itself. Lacoste licensed its name to Izod for the American market from 1952 until 1993 - David Crystal, who owned Izod, bought half the US rights in 1953. In the early nineties the two separated: Lacoste took itself back upmarket as a luxury label, Izod was repositioned as midrange, and the partnership ended in 1993. So a jacket reading Izod Lacoste was made inside those forty-one years and cannot have been made outside them.

Sri Lanka narrows it further. The country's garment export industry grew up after its economic liberalisation in 1977, so a Sri Lankan label sits at the later end of that window rather than the earlier one.

And the label explains something Americans say. Rene Lacoste won the nickname the Alligator on a wager, and it stuck; back in France it became le Crocodile. Which is why a whole American generation calls it an alligator shirt and the French never have.

The sleeve is raglan, cut in one piece from collar to cuff with no shoulder seam, so it drapes rather than sitting square.

There is no fibre label. The brand tag is there; the composition tag is not. It handles like a cotton blend, but the fibre is not stated.

Condition is great.

Measured flat: chest 48 (24 pit to pit), length 24, sleeve 24, shoulder 19.

Modern size: Fits like a modern Women's XL or Men's L.

One of one. Sold as found.

No returns - as is.