Blue alligator Lacoste shirts real?

[HermitEdge]

I've seen some people wearing these polos, and they're supposedly vintage... are they real or fakes? The alligator is just like the green ones in texture and size, but blue.

One time i was shown the tag on the back and it said HOMME on it, under the usual Lacoste Vintage type tags.

thanks

[willb]

they are vintage, the alligator use to be blue and then was changed to green.

[gimmegimme]

They're Tom Dixon for Lacoste.

http://fiftyrx3.blogspot.com/2007/04/eco-polo-vs-techno-polo-by-tom-dixon.html

Edit - Willb...where did you get that info? I've don't ever remember seeing blue alligators prior to this...pics?

[moy]

I'm pretty sure that willb is correct. I've seen many older "vintage" lacoste polos with the blue alligator.

The Tom Dixon alligators look silver, not blue.

[gimmegimme]

On the "techno" polo its silver...on the "eco" its blue..same colour as the shirt after the whole thing is dyed with indigo. I saw it at Lacoste a few days ago.

edit - just read this about blue alligators...means its a 50/50 shirt:

http://www.blairmag.com/blair2/lacoste/lacoste.html

[HermitEdge]

Here, I found one. Seems like a good fake, but the guy is covering the buttons in the pic as well. Then again I'm not sure if an 80's Lacoste had the one slit mother of pearl buttons. Look at that tail though, lol.

[WhoGotMeIntoThis]

I don't know enough about Lacoste to give a 100% answer here, but I know I've picked up old IZOD/Lacoste stuff with the blue alligator before at places like buffalo and more specificially a true vintage shop in Eugene, OR called Eugene Jeans.

But what kinda weirds me out is the fact that this guy's selling a vintage Lacoste shirt with the tags still on? I reckon that'd be one hell of a tough find these days, makes me figure it isn't real...

wish I knew more.

EDIT: Notice the tags in that ^ photo say the shirt is 100% cotton? Pretty much answers your question.

[willb]

the only reason i knew it was vintage because this one girl who is all about "high end" fashion was talking about how her mom and her friends in college would buy the blue alligators and put them on polos and sell them lol.

[herpsky]

watanabe junya lacoste polos feature black alligators this season.

i don't have a picture but it's

-a patch work of black pique fabric with different tones

-studs everywhere ala CDG evergreen 07 SS

one of the coolest looking polos i've ever seen

too bad that it was like 39500 yen

[gimmegimme]

^^ I saw those too. Very nice. The Tom Dixon ones are pretty cool..but they run around $250 I think.

[baskew]

I use to wear izod lacoste in middle school.

searsing it.

[gimmegimme]

As soon as I saw the Izod logo the memories caming pouring back...yellow lacoste shirt, brown cords, and my super-stylin' fluorescent orange rain poncho with the stop-sign on the back. I was mackin.

[cheep]

its real vintage... ive had many.

[retemeris]

^ +1...

my dad and one of my friends has the same shirt.. they are real/vintage.

[aso2004]

Ok This is what I know..

Lacoste used to have their polo's made by Izod in the sixties and seventies.

They were meant for the American market and Lacoste wanted a differnce in their appearance, hence the blue crocodile versus the green european counterpart...

At the beginning of the 80's the company took it's licence back and started producing for itself

So right now the only real blue crocodile can be found on a vintage Izod /Lacoste shirt or cardi

There are no new ones known to be around...

[gimmegimme]

^^ what about the Tom Dixon one mentioned above that I can't seem to shut up about?

[RockTheVote]

IZOD and Lacoste were working together back in the 80's then they split.. so you have Izod and Lacoste now..

[VinnieG24]

i saw a couple of these. they are definatly vintage...cool shirts tho

[HermitEdge]

I still need help... Does anyone have one of the blue croc Lacostes that are real vintage?

If you do, can you post a picture of what the buttons are supposed to look like, and if the HOMME tag should or shouldn't be on there?

Thanks