Fred Perry was a leading tennis star of the 1930s. He was born in Stockport, Cheshire on the 18th of May 1909. He was very interested in tennis and became a Wimbledon tennis champion which brought him fame as being the world’s number one tennis player for four consecutive years. His tennis fame spread and Perry became a well known person in the history of tennis, winning all of the 4 Grand Slam events.
Being known as the world’s best tennis player, Fred Perry was requested to promote sportswear clothing and accessories in those years. In the later part of the 1940s, Perry made a few changes to an anti-perspirant brand on request of its inventor. He changed its features and made it into a neat sweatband to be worn around the wrist. This gave Perry a thought of producing sportswear of different types for the benefit of sports people.
He produced the sports shirt using knitted cotton pique. It has short sleeves and buttons on the front of it. This white polo tennis shirt was launched in 1952 as the Wimbledon tennis shirt. However, this polo shirt should not be confused with the polo shirt of Ralph Lauren.
Even today, this brand tennis shirt of Fred Perry is manufactured and marketed by a Japanese corporation known as Laurel logo with the older Wimbledon symbol stitched on the left side breast of the shirt.
Fred Perry tennis shirts were initially manufactured only in white. However, in the late 50s the need to have different colours arose among teenage groups preferring to wear them in different colours. This tennis shirt has now regained the same popularity with Andy Murray, the tennis star of 2010 signing in with Adidas, his clothes sponsor for this branded polo shirt.
The world today, is celebrating the centenary of Fred Perry in 2011 with a wide collection of sports apparel meant exclusively for men and women. Sport shirts, trousers, t-shirts, shoes, shawls, handbags and everything else that is marketed under the Fred Perry brand. Enjoy spring with Fred Perry clothing and accessories, it sure is the best choice ever.