I’m not a fan of sports apparel, mak­ing that clear in a pre­vi­ous post. Most of the time, the designs are loud, the col­ors bright and the mate­r­ial cheap. Can’t blame them, though. How are you sup­posed to make a — oh I dunno — a Mil­wau­kee Brewer look cool?

Well, I think Red Jacket can. I found a Cubs shirt made by them at Nordstrom’s. 100% light weight cot­ton, super soft, vin­tage, it looks unique with an under­stated design. And here’s their Brew­ers shirt below.

Curi­ous, I looked up the Red Jacket site and found they spe­cial­ize in base­ball apparel, rang­ing from the Major Leagues, Minor Leagues, Negro Leagues and even the Nip­pon (Japan­ese) Leagues.  They offer hood­ies, T-shirts and long sleeved jer­seys along with items for the ladies.  They’re bril­liant at cap­tur­ing baseball’s nos­tal­gic, vin­tage past with mod­ern, sub­dued designs. And their price point is about right, sim­i­lar to other brands.

I was sur­prised to find that they also offer col­lege, golf, lacrosse, soc­cer and ten­nis apparel. It’s a great selec­tion of designs, espe­cially their ten­nis polos. They have an appre­ci­a­tion for clas­sic ath­let­ics with a touch of their own inspiration.

I asked them if they’re going to expand their col­lec­tion into foot­ball and bas­ket­ball as well. I think they could eas­ily re-invent those old school jer­seys into some­thing fan­tas­tic, as they’ve done with their base­ball col­lec­tion. I like their Remote Con­trol series the best. It fits and feels like a Tshirt but almost looks like a jer­sey, with­out the jer­sey sticker price and baggy fit.

If you can think of other brands that also pro­vide qual­ity col­lec­tions with a clas­sic look, please let us know.

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