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‘BEHIND THE SEAMS COSBY SWEATERS Part 1 of 3’
Growing up in the 80’s I was subjected to the cruel punishment of the sweaters that Bill Cosby wore on TV.
The true story is that a feisty Dutch fashion man named Koos van den Akker created the Cosby knitwear using his signature Frankenstein method of stitching together portions of different materials. As a young man, Koos ran a small clothing store in The Hague. He came to America to work as a missionary (on paper, at least) but quickly became engrossed in the fashion avalanche of New York City. By ’72, business was beginning to pick up at his Madison Avenue store, and his career as the world’s foremost designer of ragbag apparel was solidified.
It was sometime during the early 80s that a Koos sweater was given to Bill Cosby as a birthday gift. America’s favorite dad loved it so much he told the wardrobe department of The Cosby Show to back off while he slipped his head through the neck holes of Koos’s creations for years to come.
