Featured THRIFT STORE FIND - AP POLO SWEATER RELATED TO RALPH LAUREN POLO?

Your sweater IMO is meant to deceive/confuse the purchaser that it is related to Ralph Lauren. IMO it is not. It is however an attractive hoodie sweater that can legally be sold as a Polo Hoodie Flag Sweater since it doesn’t say Ralph or Lauren on it and Polo is the name of a sport as well. You may want to do a burn test to see if you can tell the fiber content. At least you’ll be able to say if there’s synthetic fiber in it.

 

Thought the same at first, then decided it couldn't be because, seriously, why?

 

This looks like a seam to me.

 

I agree @Bronwen

But, I grew up with knitted and crocheted clothes, and still don't always know the diff, so maybe @2manybooks is on the right track and I won't state as fact, either way.

Crochet came into raging fashion later, like the 70s. In my world anyway. I always gave friends the heads up, "If my mom likes you, she'll make an Afghan for you."

Anyway, it's a really fun item, and somebody out there will have fun with it, no doubt at all

OK, 2many - you made me look, and the result is, IS THERE SUCH A THING AS A CROCHET Machine? by a blog that goes by the awesome name of:

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I know in Ye Olden Days Of Ebay Boards, the lace wiz people always said, "crochet is always handmade."

I grew up crocheting. Mostly because my knitter aunt couldn't figure out how to teach a left hander to knit. My mom was way more patient, but she only knew how to crochet.

 

I just keep thinking it looks more suited to watching a hockey game than a polo match.

 

I'm not sure people were getting kicked off eBay for keyword spamming when this was made...

Maybe they were sold by wholesale jobbers and neighborhood chain stores before trademark policing came into force. Mexico?

 

If it's really crocheted, I think someone's nana made it.

Or it was a doctoral thesis.

But given someone cared enough to take it to a dry cleaner... yeah, it's a funny old world.

 

It's not even trying to deceive which is kind of a wink-wink, nod-nod to label haters - reverse snobbery. A label lover wouldn't be caught dead in it.

@journeymagazine already knows that, so I believe he knows I'm not judging - it's kitsch!

I once bought a shirt I thought was labeled "Made in France." I didn't see the tiny "Not" until I ironed it and had to laugh at myself.

 

Love it!

 

I still maintain that it was meant to confuse with RL. Not saying that it’s commercial in any way and could be a one of a kind, just that it was meant to confuse with Lauren. It’s not just the POLO or the flag but the two combined together with the other letters is just too coincidental not to be intended. I still think it is not KWS which rarely gets reported anyway. In fashion, most would call it “Designer Inspired”.

 

I've decided it's a fine piece of satire.

Definitely doctoral project.

 

I did my doctoral thesis on homemade clothes.

I'd show my mother a dress at Penney's. She'd say, "I can make that." and I'd think, "Just shoot me now."

I'm not sure anyone else knew the difference, but I sure did.

She did make us some fun things, and I really wish I'd been more grateful!

 

My mother was the opposite in talent... her things were made much more skillfully than what you can generally buy in a store. But she was pretty busy so didn't make very many things when I was a small child.

 

I'm not saying my mother didn't have talent, @Figtree3 !

I just knew other kids' schoolclothes came from department stores, and mine didn't... And I can't remember my mother buying herself a dress just for the fun of it, ever!

We had bag lunches and 4¢ for milk. Some kids with the 35¢ to eat in the cafeteria wanted my fresh baked cookies and I wanted cherry cobbler and spinach

 

Oh, that's different! I understand the thriftiness. My parents were like that, too, and my mother still is.

 

In 6th grade I launched a real campaign for a shirt, skirt and jacket set at Penney's, explaining how practical it was because I could mix and match it

I somehow won the day, but I'm pretty sure it involved ironing money...

I felt I pulled off a real coup! THREE PIECES of store-bought clothes. Ecstasy .

 

You don't really. I had an early one years ago and I should have stuck to hand knitting. It dropped stitches any chance it got and picking them up was a nightmare. I used to put the ball or whatever of wool on the floor behind it and it used to jam a lot until I discovered that one of my cats thought it was the best plaything ever invented and jumped it every time it moved <sigh> Maybe these days they are cat-proof. ps Sorry I know nothing about the jumper, except to wonder who in their right mind would wear it.

 

Yeah, @ALittleBit

I watched a cool time lapse video on YouTube - more like a crazy loom.

They do make cylindrical knitters, but I doubt you could produce anything near this complicated.

 

Just a childhood memory of me learning to take a skein of yarn & wind it into a nice ball before I could learn to knit. I was having a devil of a time with the yarn getting all snarled up. . .along comes my mother & announces that I needed to 'throw it over' the back of a chair. The devil is in the details. . .I literally threw the skein over the back of my chair and still had a total mess, I just couldn't see it anymore. She of course meant to 'open' the skein & place it over the back of a wooden chair so it would unwind in a easy fashion.