The Cardigan ...

[Mike Benham]

Perhaps it is the shopping season (aka Spendmas), strolling through the Men's Department of your local Macys, Nordstrom or Kmart ... Perhaps it was this photo posted a week or so ago, I believe it was Shivas (not his real name) who mentioned it but what the heck happened to the cardigan?

Classic, stylish, functional, promoting an aire of elegance, it has been replaced by the modern sweatshirts, windshirts and fleece.

What other classic and stylish GCA design features have gone by the wayside like the cardigan?

[Jeff_Brauer]

I prefer the Pembroke version of the Welsh Corgi......

[Marc Haring]

Well there are a few things that have thankfully disappeared from this scene, like cigarettes, crazy golf swings and trousers that are 3 inches too short. Oh and I think photoshop has eliminated pictures with severe tilts.

[Scott Stearns]

blind shots-the cardigan of GCA.

[Geoffrey Childs]

With the eye looking at the center cut with its buttons perhaps the logos will not show up as well?

Hogan was as         as it gets on a golf course.

[Mike Hendren]

Mike,

I'll need to drop a few lbs. if my 30 year old pink Izod is to be unveiled at Bandon in February.  The Cal squad could be gator-bait.

Mike

[rjsimper]

The cigarette

[PThomas]

Mike,

I'll need to drop a few lbs. if my 30 year old pink Izod is to be unveiled at Bandon in February.  The Cal squad could be gator-bait.

Mike

my wife still has a pink Cardigan from our honeymoon golf at Mid OCean 18 years ago Bogey...might have to get a picture of you two together someday!

[Brian Noser]

Oh my I can not wait for the Pink Izod and the red Spezio soul patch... 2 months... I am going to look for a cardigan tonight just for the trip..

[Dan Kelly]

What other classic and stylish GCA design features have gone by the wayside like the cardigan?

The perfectly round green?

[Gary Slatter]

Tassels have moved back from our golf shoes to the titty bars.

[David_Tepper]

Gary S. -

I think you are referring to what are known at "kilties" - those flaps that covered the laces on your golf shoes.

DT

[Sean Leary]

The clacking sound of metal spikes...

[Bob_Huntley]

I prefer the Pembroke version of the Welsh Corgi......

Jeff,

They are so much daintier than the black and whites, I had the latter, Beaufort, there was a photo of him about a year ago when he went down.

Bob

[rjsimper]

The clacking sound of metal spikes...

CLICK CLACK!


oh wait, they didnt have UnderArmour back then.

[BCrosby]

It's not just the cardigan (which I love) but the poofy sleeves that curled over your cuff. See the poof in Palmer's sleeves in the photo.

Back in the sixties all my sweaters had sleeves that did that.

Ou sont les pullovers d'antan avec les manches gonflee?

Bob

[Jeff_Brauer]

I always thought of them as old man sweaters, but I must be getting old, because I actually saw one in a golf shop recently and said, "Hmmm,......"

[Bob_Huntley]

The trouble with the cardigans worn there by Palmer is that they were made from alpaca. Here in Pebble Beach the wind just whistled through the holes in the knitting.

Bob

[rjsimper]

The trouble with the cardigans worn there by Palmer is that they were made from alpaca. Here in Pebble Beach the wind just whistled through the holes in the knitting.

Bob

The microfiber cardigan may very well be a business idea with legs.

[Dan Kelly]

The trouble with the cardigans worn there by Palmer is that they were made from alpaca. Here in Pebble Beach the wind just whistled through the holes in the knitting.

Bob

The microfiber cardigan may very well be a business idea with legs

Cardigans with legs! Now THERE'S a new idea!

P.S. to Jeff -- Oh, I think you'd look just keen in a cardigan. I can see you now, speeding down the cart path toward No. 17 at the Quarry, dressed smartly in your cardigan, when, darting across the path... oh, no! That poor creature!

[Bill Gayne]

From the 2006 Masters



It looks like some people made both pictures but loss their sense of fashion while making the trip.

[Phil McDade]

Perhaps it is the shopping season (aka Spendmas), strolling through the Men's Department of your local Macys, Nordstrom or Kmart ... Perhaps it was this photo posted a week or so ago, I believe it was Shivas (not his real name) who mentioned it but what the heck happened to the cardigan?

Classic, stylish, functional, promoting an aire of elegance, it has been replaced by the modern sweatshirts, windshirts and fleece.

What other classic and stylish GCA design features have gone by the wayside like the cardigan?

The demise of the cardigan is one of the great fashion tragedies of recent time.

I'd add pleated khakis with cuffs to the list.

[Tony_Muldoon]

From the 2006 Masters

This is hard evidence of global warming, the cardigan was the first lost species.

[Chris Kane]

The cardigan is a fashion crime against humanity.  

[Mike Benham]

I knew Shivas would come up huge !!!