What is a Letterman jacket? The Varsity Jacket is also famous as the Letterman or Letter Jacket. Indeed, it is sports outerwear with buttons from top to bottom. Jackets are so-called because of the ...
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 ...