The Tennis Shirt History
Rene Lacoste has achieved popularity in two areas; as a tennis star and as a fashion figure.
During the 1927 US Open championship, where in he won, Lacoste wore a short-sleeved shirt that is made out of an exclusive light-knitted fabric called jersey petit pique. He was the one who created this shirt which has become a famous piece of apparel throughout the world.
During the Davis Cup in 1923, Rene Lacoste was given the nickname The Alligator by the American press because of a bet made about an alligator skin suitcase.
The American press nicknamed Lacoste the alligator during the 1923 Davis Cup because of the bet made about an alligator-skin suitcase. Due to his tenacious manner in the tennis court, the nickname stuck with him until Robert Georges, one of his friends, drew him a crocodile which was embroidered on the blazer he wore on the courts.