Big Dog Sportswear – The Rise and Fall
Big Dog Sportswear – The Rise and Fall
Do you remember Big Dog Sportswear? I hope so. Because today we’re going to look at the history of Big Dog Sportswear, their rise through the 90’s, and huge decline through the 2000’s and 2010’s.
If your dad ever owned a Big Dog t-shirt, please let me know.
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"If you can’t run with the big dogs, stay on the porch"
Do Big Johnson clothing
Maybe for a skateboard deck
I ‘Member
I remember this brand. Too bad the brand lost steam.
I have seen so many of these shirts being worn ironically
You’re not crazy. Anyone that was at least 10yrs old in the mid 90s should recognize that logo. Regrettably, I actually have a Big Dog shirt that I got in middle school. It’s a parody of off the fourth Harry Potter book, Goblet of Fire. At least it was found in a tote while cleaning out the attic
I remember my 400 lb friend in high school wore Big Dog Shirts and Benetton sweat shirts. I thought it was a Big and Tall brand TBH
The unbelievable amount of cringe-wear that company put out is unbelievable.
This is the shit lol Christian kids used to wear
I have an uncle who is almost 7 feet tall and not fat or obese, but definitely what you’d call husky. My aunt always bought him Big Dogs clothes, cause they were some of the only ones that fit. He’s in his 70s now, but still a giant…..A sad old giant that will likely die soon. They were the only coolish brand for large sized dudes.
Edit: typo horseshit, too lazy to rewrite.
So, this video justice me realize that a shirt I have may be from a big dog store since it says "I Am Big Dog" on the front. I didn’t even know this company existed
I only seen one person in highschool in 2001 with this shirt
I definitely remember owning Big Dogs T-shirts and shorts as a kid in the 90s. It was part of the “sportswear trifecta”: Big Dogs, No Fear and Gecko Hawaii.
There was one at Tanger Outlets in Washington Pa
2022 im 30 now, LETS GO BIG DOG
The shorts are fire
I was 18 years old in 1994. And I remember having to ignore this brand because I respect myself and the clothes I wear. They should have just stuck with volleyball nets.
Big Dog: the No Fear for tall fat guys.
Every dog has its day
Do no fear
Sealed their downfall but also created an icon by hanging onto their aesthetic for so long. The logo and slogan shirts have been out of touch for years, but you’ll still know Big Dogs when you see it… crazy thing to try and balance brand legacy vs adapting.
I completely forgot about this company.
I definitely remember thinking this brand was so cool when I was 10
But the term "big dog" has such a CB radio boomer dad vibe to it
It will never rise from grave
RIP BIG DOG
didnt make it here to melbourne. ive only seen second hand on ebay us
Watching this in a Big Dogs cap
Man I loved these as a kid
Omg yessss. Definitely one i never see talked about. We shopped there a lot–my mom likes sarcastic shirts, and my dad is a big guy. Reminds me of Happy Bunny (went crazy for that in elememtary/middle school omg).
My family loved the Big Dog stores at the Mountain Mall in Gatlinburg and Nashville. Unfortunately the loud opinionated shirts kinda of remind me of my conservative Uncle who I have very very different opinions from. (He’s the type who’d wear it unironically.) Still I’d absolutely love to buy one of their shirts with the large logo on it. (After all vintage is crazy stylish) And maybe go to the store in Pigeon Forge next time I visit the mountains.
I always thought it was cringe
Big Dogs were big in the day. I saw all kinds of kids wearing them in the mid aughts.
I use to wear this
You really missed the mark here! It wasn’t about the angry T-shirts they sell now. In fact I think they were a big part of their downfall. At the end it’s all they sold and then quickly went out of business. I 1st encountered Big Dog back in the 80’s with the original shirt, with the dog and blue background. Big Dog to me was never about their angry T-shirts.
I discovered a store in an outlet in Monterey CA, on Cannery Row filled with high quality
casual clothes better and cheaper than anyone or anywhere else! Their clothing was made of high quality fabrics and priced sooooo cheap!! I think it probably became impossible to maintain the quality of clothing they had with the prices people came to expect and they just decided to go with the highest profit items, ie the crappy Tshirts and eliminate everything else. And that killed them.
I used to walk out with a HUGE bags of fleeces, shorts, shirts, skivvys and for like $100
and I still wear the ultra thick terry bathrobe I got for $20. Twenty bucks! Such good quality!
By the way the skivvys they included for FREE!? None had any crappy slogans. Just the dog embroidered on the clothing. The skivvys had some funny sayings but not negative. Those nasty Tshirts were relegated to a small corner in the store and came towards the end.
It was all the other stuff, quality and types of fabrics not seen anywhere else and in large and tall sizes that made it so awesome!!! Personally I don’t know how they made any money, and I think that was the real problem. Their stuff sold for too cheap! More recently I’d been searching for some shirts online, (so hard to find in anything above 2XL) and ended up purchasing some beautiful Big Dogs button down shirts. One was still brand new with the tags from 2000 and I got it for $10! And then a couple of used ones. No crappy sayings just high quality good fitting large shirts for a Big Dog!
Big dogs is the daddy to minion memes lol
My uncle loved this brand R.I.P
Oh man…I used to rock some of their stuff back in the day…I’M OLD!!!
Man these are baller
They’re the best!
They fit the start of clown clothes of the 90s that continues today.
I remember when I was in high school a kid used to wear only Big Dog brand clothing that other kids literally nicknamed him “Big Dog”.
I always saw Big Dog stuff as being dad wear instead of sports wear.
i remember B.G as man they had probably a cool Store at our mall back in the day and plus i wanted to meet one of the Dog Mascots, i did see em but then i cried go figure eh? Lol
Big Johnson > Big Dog
I remember going to this store was like Christmas morning.
I still have a lot of my pops’ old Big Dogs clothing lol. They’re still comfy.
Edit: they are still in business with a website?! I’m bringing it back! We use to have one in Batesville Mississippi and I loved their clothing, everything was comfy.
I remember. I wish I didn’t, but I do. being in grade school in the 90s, my best friend at the time (what you might call a ‘husky boy’ back then who played baseball) and his dad had closets half-full of Big Dog shirts with ‘tude. I also remember another brand using those old MS Word clip art bean people with sassy lines like, "Play you? Why? I’d just kick your butt!". I think there were a lot of short-lived brands who got on the graphic-tee-with-‘tude trend. another common one to see was "It’s a <club/activity> thing. You wouldn’t understand." often where club=band, but they had others. what a time that was.