Masters winner gets a green jacket. His caddie also gets a piece of history

The family company of Fred Daitch, shown attaching a name to the back of a caddie coverall, had made the coveralls for Augusta National for more than half a century. “You might complain about putting it on, but you really complain the year you don’t get to put it on.” In fact, a lesser-known Masters tradition allows that the caddie on the bag of the tournament winner is allowed to hang on to the long-sleeve, zip-up outfit as a keepsake, a sort of green jacket for the carrying class. VIDEO | 00:44 An example of a Masters caddie jumpsuit from 1940 Augusta businessman Fred Daitch, whose company makes caddie uniforms for the Masters tournament, shows a caddie jumpsuit from 1940. “We originally sold white coveralls to pig and chicken farmers,” said Augusta businessman Fred Daitch, whose garment company has been in his family for three generations. “The reason the farmers used them is they would go from coop to coop and they didn’t want to carry disease, so every time they went to another coop they would change their boots and coveralls.” Daitch owns International Uniform Inc., a company previously known as Daitch & Co., once one of the country’s biggest distributors of Hanes underwear.