Fred Perry
Frederick John Perry (1909 – 1995), short Fred Perry, born in Stockport, Cheshire was an English tennis and table tennis player and three-time Wimbledon champion. In the late 1940s,an Austrian footballer named Tibby Wegner had invented an anti-antiperspirant device worn around the wrist. He approached Perry who made a few changes and invented the sweatband finally. 
Afterward they produced together a sports shirt, similar to Lacoste’s shirts – made from white knitted cotton pique with short sleeves and a buttoned placket. The Fred Perry tennis shirt was an immediate success since it was launched at Wimbledon in 1952. The brand, best known for its laurel logo (based on the old Wimbledon symbol) which appears on the left breast of the tennis shirts is now owned by a Japanese corporation.
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