Head Sports Wear When It Was "Not Known for a Fashion Forward Look"

As advertised in Esquire, June 1983

Head Sports Wear was a division of the Lesley Fay Company, which is still in business despite a 1993 bankruptcy.  The division was sold to Odyssey International Group in 1991.

As the Vintage Fashion Guild website cattily notes, Lesley Fay is "not known for a fashion forward look."  (Not sure what the dude in white is doing in the Exhibit A.)

HEAD (the letters are all capitalized now, it appears) immediately thrived under its new owners, receiving plaudits for its sportswear collection for the 1992 U.S. Olympics team.