Larry Mize has never again put on the purple golf shirt he wore when he won the 1987 Masters Tournament, but his middle son, Patrick, recently wore a replica of it.

Last fall at Brookstone School in Columbus, Ga., where the 17-year-old Patrick is a senior, he dressed for "Decade Day" wearing the same outfit his father wore the day he won at Augusta National Golf Club.

After his victory, Aureus, the clothing firm that Mize represented in 1987, sent Mize a number of shirts like the one he wore that day.

"He had on the shirt, the pants and the black glove," Mize said. His son couldn't get in the shoes he wore, Mize said, but everything else fit fine.

Not many of Patrick's classmates caught the connection, but "the teachers recognized it right away," Mize said.

The shirt was light purple at the top and had two horizontal bands of white near the chest area. Below that were two bands of dark purple; then it turned to black.

Mize's wife, Bonnie, said that they had picked out another shirt the night before the final round of the Masters but that it had been dark in the room because their oldest son, David, was sleeping. When they woke up, they realized the shirt had blue colors. They needed some black to go with the pants, so the change was made.

It was definitely a 1980s look, Mize said.

"You are dated in that outfit; you don't wear clothes like that now," he said. "You don't wear shirts like that with hard, stiff collars or tight polyester pants with horizontal pockets."

"Patrick said, 'Dad, how did you get your hands in your pockets?'" Bonnie said.

After his Masters' victory, Mize considered breaking out the shirt later that season when he was in the final group at the World Series of Golf.

"Bonnie said no, and she was right," Mize said. "Normally when I listen to her, I've done right. It would have been noticed and been a disaster."

Bonnie said: "He'd worn a shirt similar to that in another tournament, and there was a lot of talk. I didn't want anyone to think there was some motive for wearing it again."

The shirt, Mize said, is in a box at the top of a closet at home.