gearpatrol

The Varsity Jacket Has Gone from High School to High Fashion. Here’s How

This story starts all the way back in 1865, when Harvard baseball players started sewing big crimson Hs onto the centers of their sweaters. The demarcation meant they were a star player — and, as such ...
Rolling Stone

Rockstars Have Taken the Varsity Jacket From the Jocks

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Varsity jackets are no longer just for jocks. Sure, the ...
Wall Street Journal

The History of the Varsity Jacket, From Harvard to Hip-Hop

FESTOONED WITH patches, the varsity jacket has, for decades, announced its wearers as members of a team. But the nature of that team has changed over time. Elite male athletes at Ivy League schools ...
MLive

To honor 50 years of Title IX, East Jackson honors first female athlete to receive varsity letter

EAST JACKSON -- Throughout the lobby of East Jackson High School on Thursday prior to the Trojans’ girls basketball game with Bath, a line of varsity letter jackets stood on display. Those jackets ...
Glamour

From Taylor Swift’s Jackets to Jordyn Woods’s Jerseys: How to Shop Like a WAG

Turn on a football game these days, and WAGs have turned the sidelines into catwalks. From Taylor Swift’s varsity letter looks, to Brittany Mahomes’s red leather biker suit and Ciara’s football digit ...
Daily Breeze

South Bay band leader reunited with his unclaimed letterman’s jacket after nearly three decades

Just like every other speed bump in the rocky road of his upbringing, Jed Mottley had to get over not having a high school letterman’s jacket. Mottley, a wide receiver for the Chaparral High Firebirds ...