Who is J Mano, and why is he on my jacket?

Asked by TheRocketPig (612

) October 27th, 2009

I just picked up this track top off of the Adidas website and was wondering who the J Mano signature belonged to on the sleeve. The most I could find on the web was that:

+ He is a man.
+ He wore an Adidas 83-C style jacket.
+ He may have first bought it in Japan.

As far as anything else… I got nuthin. I’m sure it’s something easy, I’ve never been much of a “sports guy” and honestly would like to know just for the fact of knowing more about actually what is on my jacket.

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Apparently it is simply a marketing ploy by Adidas, building on some poor schmuck’s sense of style. Even Adidas doesn’t know who he is or was according to this.

Darwin (21867

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i have 1 of these tops to as im a keen collecter and have been wondering i was told it had something to do with millan

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the “j. Mano” story goes like this..

designers for adidas were @ a thrift shop lookiing for inspiration for designs when they cam upon a track jacket w/ “83-C” on the front and “J. Mano” on the sleeve, so they recreated the jacket w/ the embroidery on it w/o knowing who ‘J. Mano” was.. also inside the jacket they stiched inside “j.mano, get in touch” not knowing who j. mano is.. needless to say the jacket became a hit. Eventually J. Mano surfaced.. he was actually a mechanic who changed tires on a race track in mexico named “83-C”

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