Original Penguin

In 1955, an ambitious salesman named Abbot Pederson had time to kill before a flight home. Taking a wrong turn down a Manhattan street, he found himself outside a taxidermist’s shop. Deciding he needed a drinking buddy for the flight, he bought a penguin and named him Pete. At some point during the flight, he accidentally knocked the head off Pete the Penguin, so the stewardess removed Abbot's necktie and wrapped it around the penguin’s neck. She joked that such a dapper bird deserved to be immortalized, maybe even on a shirt. With that idea - an icon was born.