Alex Kanapilly said:
What do you like then? I think bowling shirts look way better than most of the pool stuff out there.
Well ... that's fair ... I, personally like, long sleeved T's with a good design, Polo's made and designed well (I have a purple polo made by a friend of mine here locally with an embroidered 9 ball rack on the back, and my name and little 9 ball in front that I love ... and before you say anything blueish purple is a very good color on me), I liked the Air Mosconi shirt on PoolTees.com that they don't have anymore.
I don't really go for the dumb stuff on many T's. I would love to see some Pool clothing out that reflected some of the Pro Players (and as a way for some of them to pick up a little cash). Caricatures or likenesses of them on some shirts. I would definately buy a Rodney Morris or Thomas Engert
shirt. (2 of my favorites). Think how well a John Schmidt shirt might go over with 2006 US Open 9 Ball Champion on it. Gabe Owen is a friend of mine, and I would buy a shirt with him on it. I would buy an Efren or Busta or Alex shirt.
No one hardily offers a Pool ski type coat that has Pool things embroidered on it. Not a light jacket, but one you can wear when it snows, and it snows in the Midwest. I have one that I bought years ago when Montana Billiards was in operation, the 2nd one actually, for $60 that is black with yellow inside (same colors as our WSU college) embroidered on the back with a mountain background with 3 balls in the foreground, and a smaller embroidrie on the front of the same thing (wear a front pocket would be),
and I have had more people that have commented on it, and wanting to buy it from me all the time. It is the only ski type coat I have seen with Pool stuff on it. I usually wear it in the winter, and to WSU basketball games since it is the school's colors.
My question is: Why hasn't someone done this before? It seems to me that their is a market for a ski type coat with Pool on it, or the shirts with the pros on them. If the IPT makes it out alive, having some of their pros on shirts along with IPT seems like it would fly. Or what about classic Pool shirts with the old pros on them, like Mosconi, Crane, Lassiter, Hoppe.
I do have an aversion towards playing in a button down shirt because I always tuck my shirt in, and it pulls at me when I try to stroke the ball.
As far as the zip up hooded red Pool sweat jacket, I don't like the bottom trim or the cuff trim, they are loose, and looks cheap. Ever buy a cheap sweater as opposed to a real good sweater?
