Champion "HERITAGE" Sportswear Hampshire Letter Man's Cardigan Sweater

The iconic Varsity jacket’s origins trace all the way back to Harvard University in the year 1865 Harvard’s baseball team at the time was the first known group of students to sew large old English “H” patches onto their uniforms The Harvard uniform was basically a thick-knitted gray flannel pullover and, with the giant “H” sewn right onto the center, these soon came to be known as “letterman” sweaters Did They Get to Keep the Sweater? The story goes that although lettered sweaters were soon provided to each player, in the spirit of good-natured competition, players involved in the year’s most momentous games got to keep theirs while the rest had to return their letterman sweaters at the end of the season The football team at Harvard is said to have followed in adopting lettered sweaters 10 years later. Cardigans gained popularity over pullovers, thus making it necessary to shift the letter over from the center of the chest to the left Today’s Varsity Jacket Soon, different teams from different schools, from all over the nation, had lettered sweaters, and eventually, high schools started to walk in the steps of their collegiate predecessors By 1930, the varsity jacket finally took on the form we’re so familiar with – wool jackets, leather sleeves, and chenille lettering Now that you’ve achieved & earned your varsity jacket, today with the ability to customize jackets with different colors, patches, designs, and so on, each jacket can be as unique as the student wearing it.