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07/13/11
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Pamela Sue Martin Wants No Funny Stuff

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Miscellaneous Handsomeness: An assortment of loose pictures, covering blog-bait from Nato straps to madras. [A Headlong Dive]

Tennis Whites: Dennis Tang doubles down on the all-white Lacoste polo for summer. Not a bad move. [GQ]

The Pictures: A personal essay about surfing, being young and looking up from Aaron Gilbreath. [Paris Review]

Get Onboard: And continuing our recent surf obsession, this hand-crafted wooden board is one of the coolest things we’ve seen all day. [Gear Patrol]

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06/02/11
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This Sporting Life

The Gentleman in White

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In honor of the latest crop of Lacoste’s Andy Roddick gear, we thought we’d draw your attention to some of our favorite sports clothing of all time. Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. René Lacoste.

Granted, it was a simpler time—before sneakers and synthetic fabrics—but if it was up to us, these tennis whites would still be the dress code at Wimbledon, right down to the newsboy hat. Just call it a gentlemanly handicap.

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10/19/10
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The Biz

Logo Week: René Lacoste and the Crocodile

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The industry’s full of iconic logos, but you rarely hear where they came from. To that end, we’re taking a look at the stories behind three of our favorite logos. Later in the week, you’ll hear a little more about Rolls Royce and Brooks Brothers—but first, the story of the René Lacoste and the crocodile.

Like so many tales, it begins with a piece of luggage…»

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08/14/09
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Object

Going Dotty

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These flourescent sneakers just landed online as part of Lacoste’s new Stealth Collection, and we can safely say they’re the coolest retro-futurist kicks we’ve seen all day. They’re supposedly inspired by Back to the Future (think 2015 via 1985), but with dots like these, we’d say the greater debt goes to Roy Lichtenstein. It’s a pattern that you rarely see outside of the Sunday comics, but if you’ve got a pair of dark jeans handy, it not be any harder to pull off than plain white.

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07/29/09
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Good Idea

Check Your Head

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Our enthusiasm for biking has been dampened by one simple, easily overlooked fact: Bike helmets tend to be incredibly ugly. Luckily, a few newer models have started taking a pointers from the flatter skateboard helmets and—in this case—worked in some actual fabric.

This Lacoste helmet manages the difficult trick of being both eco-friendly and sartorially accomplished. The first count comes from subbing in soft cork for the usual styrafoam. The second comes courtesy of our old friend the flat cap, which they wisely adopted as a style guide. Naturally, this one’s a bit beefier. It’s got a job to do.

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04/13/09
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Spreading Out

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Boutique dress shirts have run through just about every kind of collar there is—from spread collars to club collars to tuxedo-style flip-point collars—but polos have been lagging pretty far behind.

Luckily, Lacoste is making a go of it. These spread-collared polos came about thanks to a collab with Japan’s United Arrows, who slimmed down the silhouette and curved out the collar for something that looks a lot more current than most of the alligator’s usual gear. (Apparently John Waters was onto something.)

Of course, we’ll give extra points to the first polo that gives us a club collar…but we’re not holding our breath.

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06/09/08
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Beckham’s Subpar Looks, Wrinkle-Free and Lookin’ Good, and Some Kick-Ass Shoes

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Wrinkle-Free Suits That Look Good: For real? For really real? [We Are The Market]

England’s Finest: We don’t know many of the names on Esquire UK‘s best-dressed list. We do know, however, that David Beckham is not amoung them. [IndependentUK]

Tennis Anyone?: Crocodiles kill more people in Africa than any other animal. These Lacoste’s are killers too. [Hypebeast]

Greener Pastures: Like it or not, John Deere is the new hotness. [DNRNews]

Ink Blots: Your new touch-senitive tattoo will receive even more female attentions than that Tasmanian Devil piece on your bicep. [PSFK]

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05/22/08
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Bad Idea

Loose Threads: The Future

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We hadn’t given much thought to what the future of tennis would look like. But Lacoste has, and apparently it looks like a combination of *Star Wars* and *American Gladiators*.

More on what the future holds»

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