As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 13, 1997
                                                           Registration No. 333-


      S E C U R I T I E S   A N D   E X C H A N G E   C O M M I S S I O N

                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                     UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                         HYDE ATHLETIC INDUSTRIES, INC.
              ---------------------------------------------------
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

         Massachusetts                                       04-1465840
      -------------------                               -------------------
(State or other jurisdiction of                           (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)                          Identification No.)

       Centennial Industrial Park, 13 Centennial Drive, Peabody, MA 01960
              ---------------------------------------------------
              (Address of principal executive offices)  (Zip Code)

                           1993 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
                 ---------------------------------------------
                            (Full title of the plan)

                              Charles A. Gottesman
                            Executive Vice President
                    
                         Hyde Athletic Industries, Inc.
                           Centennial Industrial Park
                              13 Centennial Drive
                          Peabody, Massachusetts 01960
              ---------------------------------------------------
                    (Name and address of agent for service)

                                 (508) 532-9000
              ---------------------------------------------------
         (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

                  CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

                                     Proposed
                                      Maximum    Proposed Maximum  Amount of
Title of Securities  Amount to be Offering Price    Aggregate     Registration
  to be Registered    Registered     Per Share    Offering Price      Fee
  ---------------   -------------  -------------  -------------   -----------
Class B Common      350,000 shares  $4.375 (1)    $1,531,250 (1)    $465.00
Stock, $.33-1/3 par
value

     (1)  Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the
registration fee, and based on the average of the high and low
prices as reported by the Nasdaq National Market on August 8, 1997,
in accordance with Rules 457(c) and (h) of the Securities Act of
1933.







                    STATEMENT OF INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

     With the exception of Items 3, 5 and 9, below, this Registration Statement
on Form S-8 incorporates by reference the contents of the Registration Statement
on Form S-8, File No. 33-61532, such Registration Statement relating to the
Registrant's 1993 Equity Incentive Plan.

     Item 3.  Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference.
             -----------------------------------------------

     The Registrant is subject to the informational and reporting requirements
of Sections 13(a), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (as
amended, the "Exchange Act"), and in accordance therewith files reports, proxy
statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "Commission"). The following documents, which are filed with the
Commission, are incorporated in this Registration Statement by reference:

          (1)  The Registrant's latest annual report filed pursuant to
     Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or the latest prospectus filed
     pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 (as amended, the
     "Securities Act") that contains audited financial statements for the
     Registrant's latest fiscal year for which such statements have been filed.

          (2)  All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the
     Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the document
     referred to in (1) above.

          (3)  The description of the Class B Common Stock, $.33-1/3 par value
     per share ("Class B Common Stock"), contained in the Form 8-A filed under
     the Exchange Act on April 22, 1993 and amended on May 24, 1993, including
     any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.


     All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all shares of Class B Common Stock
offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all shares of Class B Common
Stock then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference
herein and to be part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents.

     Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
              --------------------------------------

     David E. Redlick, a partner of Hale and Dorr LLP, is Clerk of the
Registrant.

     Item 9.   Undertakings.
               ------------

     1.   The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

          (a)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
     made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

                    (i)  To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3)
                    of the Securities Act;

                    (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events
                    arising after the effective date of the registration
                    statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment
                    thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent
                    a fundamental change in the information set forth in the
                    registration statement.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, any
                    increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the
                    total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed
                    that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or
                    high and of the estimated maximum offering range may be
                    reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the
                    Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the
                    changes in volume and price represent no more than 20
                    percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set
                    forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the
                    effective registration statement; and

                    (iii)     To include any material information with respect
                    to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the
                    registration statement or any material change to such
                    information in the registration statement;

          provided, however that paragraphs (i) and (ii) do not apply if the
          registration statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8, and the information
          required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
          paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to
          the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or
          Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference
          in the registration statement.

          (b)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
     Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a
     new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and
     the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the
     initial bona fide offering thereof.

          (c)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
     amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
     termination of the offering.


     2.   The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's
annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

     3.   Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons
of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and
is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer of controlling person of the Registrant
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.


                                   SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in Peabody, Massachusetts, on this 31st day of July, 1997.














     HYDE ATHLETIC INDUSTRIES, INC.



     By:  /s/ John H. Fisher
          -----------------------------
          John H. Fisher
          President and Chief
          Executive Officer






















                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

     We, the undersigned officers and directors of Hyde Athletic Industries,
Inc., hereby severally constitute and appoint John H. Fisher, Charles A.
Gottesman and David E. Redlick, and each of them singly, our true and lawful
attorneys with full power to them, and each of them singly, to sign for us and
in our names, in the capacities indicated below, the Registration Statement on
Form S-8 filed herewith and any and all amendments to said Registration
Statement and generally to do all such things in our name and behalf in our
capacities as officers and directors to enable Hyde Athletic Industries, Inc.,
to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all
requirements of the Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming our signatures
as they may be signed by our said attorneys, or any of them, to said
Registration Statement and any and all amendments thereto.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.

           Signature                         Title                   Date
 -----------------------------   -----------------------------  -------------

/s/ John H. Fisher              President, Chief Executive      July 31, 1997
-----------------------------   Officer and Director
John H. Fisher                  (Principal)

/s/ Charles A. Gottesman        Executive Vice President, Chief July 31, 1997
-----------------------------   Operating Officer and Director
Charles A. Gottesman            (Principal Financial Officer)

/s/ Roger P. Deschenes          Chief Accounting Officer        July 31, 1997
-----------------------------
Roger P. Deschenes

/s/ John J. Neuhauser           Director                        July 31, 1997
-----------------------------
John J. Neuhauser

/s/ Jonathan O. Lee             Director                        July 31, 1997
-----------------------------
Jonathan O. Lee

/s/ Phyllis H. Fisher           Director                        July 31, 1997
-----------------------------
Phyllis H. Fisher


                                 EXHIBIT INDEX



 Exhibit
  Number
----------
4         Specimen Certificate of Class B Common Stock of the Registrant
          incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant's
          Form S-2, as amended (File No. 33-61040).

5         Opinion of Hale and Dorr LLP.

23.1      Consent of Hale and Dorr LLP (included in Exhibit 5).

23.2      Consent of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.


24        Power of Attorney (included in the signature pages of this
          Registration Statement).
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 13, 1997
                                                           Registration No. 333-

      S E C U R I T I E S   A N D   E X C H A N G E   C O M M I S S I O N

                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                     UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                         HYDE ATHLETIC INDUSTRIES, INC.
              ---------------------------------------------------
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

         Massachusetts                                       04-1465840
      -------------------                               -------------------
(State or other jurisdiction of                           (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)                          Identification No.)

       Centennial Industrial Park, 13 Centennial Drive, Peabody, MA 01960
              ---------------------------------------------------
              (Address of principal executive offices)  (Zip Code)

                           1993 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
                 ---------------------------------------------
                            (Full title of the plan)

                              Charles A. Gottesman
                            Executive Vice President
                    
                         Hyde Athletic Industries, Inc.
                           Centennial Industrial Park
                              13 Centennial Drive
                          Peabody, Massachusetts 01960
              ---------------------------------------------------
                    (Name and address of agent for service)

                                 (508) 532-9000
              ---------------------------------------------------
         (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

                  CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

                                     Proposed
                                      Maximum    Proposed Maximum  Amount of
Title of Securities  Amount to be Offering Price    Aggregate     Registration
  to be Registered    Registered     Per Share    Offering Price      Fee
  ---------------   -------------  -------------  -------------   -----------
Class B Common      350,000 shares  $4.375 (1)    $1,531,250 (1)    $465.00
Stock, $.33-1/3 par
value

     (1)  Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the
registration fee, and based on the average of the high and low
prices as reported by the Nasdaq National Market on August 8, 1997,
in accordance with Rules 457(c) and (h) of the Securities Act of
1933.

                    STATEMENT OF INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

     With the exception of Items 3, 5 and 9, below, this Registration Statement
on Form S-8 incorporates by reference the contents of the Registration Statement
on Form S-8, File No. 33-61532, such Registration Statement relating to the
Registrant's 1993 Equity Incentive Plan.

     Item 3.  Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference.
             -----------------------------------------------

     The Registrant is subject to the informational and reporting requirements
of Sections 13(a), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (as
amended, the "Exchange Act"), and in accordance therewith files reports, proxy
statements and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "Commission"). The following documents, which are filed with the
Commission, are incorporated in this Registration Statement by reference:

          (1)  The Registrant's latest annual report filed pursuant to
     Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or the latest prospectus filed
     pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 (as amended, the
     "Securities Act") that contains audited financial statements for the
     Registrant's latest fiscal year for which such statements have been filed.

          (2)  All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the
     Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the document
     referred to in (1) above.

          (3)  The description of the Class B Common Stock, $.33-1/3 par value
     per share ("Class B Common Stock"), contained in the Form 8-A filed under
     the Exchange Act on April 22, 1993 and amended on May 24, 1993, including
     any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.

     All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment which indicates that all shares of Class B Common Stock
offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all shares of Class B Common
Stock then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference
herein and to be part hereof from the date of the filing of such documents.

     Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
              --------------------------------------

     David E. Redlick, a partner of Hale and Dorr LLP, is Clerk of the
Registrant.

     Item 9.   Undertakings.
               ------------

     1.   The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

          (a)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
     made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

                    (i)  To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3)
                    of the Securities Act;

                    (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events
                    arising after the effective date of the registration
                    statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment
                    thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent
                    a fundamental change in the information set forth in the
                    registration statement.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, any
                    increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the
                    total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed
                    that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or
                    high and of the estimated maximum offering range may be
                    reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the
                    Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the
                    changes in volume and price represent no more than 20
                    percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set
                    forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the
                    effective registration statement; and

                    (iii)     To include any material information with respect
                    to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the
                    registration statement or any material change to such
                    information in the registration statement;

          provided, however that paragraphs (i) and (ii) do not apply if the
          registration statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8, and the information
          required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
          paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to
          the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or
          Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference
          in the registration statement.

          (b)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
     Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a
     new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and
     the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the
     initial bona fide offering thereof.

          (c)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
     amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
     termination of the offering.

     2.   The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan's
annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

     3.   Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons
of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such
indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and
is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer of controlling person of the Registrant
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.

                                   SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in Peabody, Massachusetts, on this 31st day of July, 1997.

     HYDE ATHLETIC INDUSTRIES, INC.

     By:  /s/ John H. Fisher
          -----------------------------
          John H. Fisher
          President and Chief
          Executive Officer

                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

     We, the undersigned officers and directors of Hyde Athletic Industries,
Inc., hereby severally constitute and appoint John H. Fisher, Charles A.
Gottesman and David E. Redlick, and each of them singly, our true and lawful
attorneys with full power to them, and each of them singly, to sign for us and
in our names, in the capacities indicated below, the Registration Statement on
Form S-8 filed herewith and any and all amendments to said Registration
Statement and generally to do all such things in our name and behalf in our
capacities as officers and directors to enable Hyde Athletic Industries, Inc.,
to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all
requirements of the Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming our signatures
as they may be signed by our said attorneys, or any of them, to said
Registration Statement and any and all amendments thereto.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.

           Signature                         Title                   Date
 -----------------------------   -----------------------------  -------------

/s/ John H. Fisher              President, Chief Executive      July 31, 1997
-----------------------------   Officer and Director
John H. Fisher                  (Principal)

/s/ Charles A. Gottesman        Executive Vice President, Chief July 31, 1997
-----------------------------   Operating Officer and Director
Charles A. Gottesman            (Principal Financial Officer)

/s/ Roger P. Deschenes          Chief Accounting Officer        July 31, 1997
-----------------------------
Roger P. Deschenes

/s/ John J. Neuhauser           Director                        July 31, 1997
-----------------------------
John J. Neuhauser

/s/ Jonathan O. Lee             Director                        July 31, 1997
-----------------------------
Jonathan O. Lee

/s/ Phyllis H. Fisher           Director                        July 31, 1997
-----------------------------
Phyllis H. Fisher

                                 EXHIBIT INDEX

 Exhibit
  Number
----------
4         Specimen Certificate of Class B Common Stock of the Registrant
          incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Registrant's
          Form S-2, as amended (File No. 33-61040).

5         Opinion of Hale and Dorr LLP.

23.1      Consent of Hale and Dorr LLP (included in Exhibit 5).

23.2      Consent of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.

24        Power of Attorney (included in the signature pages of this
          Registration Statement).