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                                                                  EXHIBIT 10.16

                                CUTTER & BUCK
                              STOCK BONUS PLAN

Section 1.  PURPOSES OF THE PLAN.  The purposes of this Cutter & Buck Stock 
Bonus Plan (the "Plan") are to enable Cutter & Buck Inc. and its subsidiaries 
(the "Company") to attract, retain and motivate officers and other key 
employees and to encourage ownership of stock in the Company on the part of 
such personnel.

Section 2.  ADMINISTRATION.  The Plan shall be administered by the 
Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company (the 
"Committee").

Section 3.  ELIGIBILITY.  Any officer of the Company shall be eligible to 
participate in the Plan. In addition, other key employees of the Company who 
are, in the judgment of the Committee, responsible for or contribute to the 
management, growth and/or profitability of the Company may be designated by 
the Committee from time to time as being eligible to participate in the Plan 
(such officers and key employees who are so designated by the Committee are 
referred to herein as "Eligible Employees").

Section 4.  PARTICIPATION.  Eligible Employees who are participants in the 
Company's discretionary cash bonus plan (the "Cash Bonus Plan") may, but are 
not required to, elect to receive shares of Restricted Stock under the Plan 
in lieu of the right to receive all or any portion of the payment in cash 
under the Cash Bonus Plan. The number of shares of Restricted Stock to be 
issued to a Participant under the Plan shall be determined by multiplying (i) 
the participation percentage elected by such Participant by (ii) the gross 
amount of the cash bonus which would have been payable to that Participant 
with respect to that fiscal year under the Cash Bonus Plan if the Participant 
had not elected to participate in the Plan, and then dividing the resultant 
amount by the applicable Computation Value (defined below) of the Stock; 
provided that no fractional shares of Restricted Stock shall be issued, and 
the amount computed by multiplying any fractional share interest otherwise 
resulting from such determination by the applicable Computation Value shall 
be paid over to the Participant (net of any applicable tax withholding). 
"Computation Value" shall be computed by multiplying the closing price of the 
Company's Common Stock as reported by Nasdaq (or such other principal market 
on which such stock is traded on such date) as of the day on which the 
applicable cash bonus is declared under the Cash Bonus Plan by such factor 
(the "Discount Factor") as is determined by the Committee from time to time 
to be appropriate to reflect both the impact on valuation of the restrictions 
applicable to the Restricted Stock under Section 5 and the risk of forfeiture 
of the Restricted Stock by a Participant. Until such time as determined 
otherwise by the Committee, the Discount Factor shall be 85 percent.

Section 5.  RESTRICTED STOCK.

       (a)  The maximum number of shares of Restricted Stock which may be 
issued under the Plan shall be not more than 25,000 and the maximum number of 
shares of Restricted Stock which may be issued under the Plan to any one 
Participant in any one year shall be not more than 7,500, both subject to 
adjustment as provided in Section 6 hereof. In the event shares of Restricted 
Stock are forfeited prior to the end of the period during which the 
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Restricted Stock expire, the forfeited shares of Restricted Stock will become 
available for future issuance under the Plan.

       (b)  Each Participant who receives shares of Restricted Stock 
hereunder may, but need not, be issued a stock certificate in respect of such 
shares of Restricted Stock. Each certificate, if any, issued to a 
Participant shall be registered in the name of such Participant and, during 
the applicable Restricted Period, shall bear an appropriate legend referring 
to the terms, conditions, and restrictions applicable to such shares of 
Restricted Stock, substantially in the following form:

            "The transferability of the certificate and the shares of stock 
       represented hereby are subject to the terms and conditions (including 
       forfeiture) of the Cutter & Buck Stock Bonus Plan. A copy of such plan 
       is on file in the offices of Cutter & Buck, 2701 First Avenue, Suite 
       500, Seattle, Washington 98121."

       The Committee may require that any stock certificate issued in the 
name of a Participant evidencing shares of Restricted Stock be held in the 
custody of the Company until the restrictions thereon shall have lapsed, and 
that, as a condition of the issuance of a certificate for Restricted Stock, 
the Participant shall have delivered to the Company a stock power, endorsed 
in blank, relating to the shares covered by such certificate.

       In lieu of the issuance of a certificate for any shares of Restricted 
Stock during the applicable Restricted Period, a "book entry" (i.e., a 
computerized or manual entry) may be made in the records of the Company to 
evidence the ownership of such shares of Restricted Stock in the name of the 
applicable Participant.

       (c)  The shares of Restricted Stock received by a Participant under 
the Plan shall be subject to the following restrictions and conditions:

            (i)    Subject to the provisions of the Plan, shares of 
Restricted Stock received hereunder may not be sold, transferred, pledged or 
assigned until the Shares are vested. Shares of Restricted Stock shall vest 
while the Participant is an employee of the Company over a two-year period, 
with twenty-five percent (25%) of such shares vesting every six (6) months 
from the date of grant.

            (ii)   The Participant shall have the right to vote or direct the 
vote of his or her shares of Restricted Stock, whether vested or unvested, 
and shall have the right to receive any regular cash dividends on all such 
shares of Restricted Stock. Shares of Common Stock received as a result of a 
stock dividend or stock split with respect to shares of unvested Restricted 
Stock shall be treated as additional shares of unvested Restricted Stock. The 
Committee shall in its sole discretion determine the Participant's rights 
with respect to any other extraordinary dividends on the shares of unvested 
Restricted Stock.

            (iii)  Certificates for shares of Restricted Stock shall be 
delivered to the Participant promptly after they are vested. If certificates 
evidencing such shares of Restricted Stock were previously issued bearing the 
legend set forth in Section 5(b) hereof, such certificates

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shall be canceled and new certificates not bearing such legend shall be 
issued for delivery to the Participant.

            (iv)   Upon termination of a Participant's employment with the 
Company for any reason other than death or Disability (defined below), such 
Participant shall forfeit all unvested Restricted Stock, and shall be 
entitled to receive nothing in lieu thereof, not even the amount by which the 
Participant's right to receive compensation in cash was reduced in connection 
with the receipt of such forfeited Restricted Stock.

            (v)    In the event of the termination of the Participant's 
employment with the Company as the result of the death or Disability of such 
Participant, the rights of such Participant in and to the shares of 
Restricted Stock held by or for the account of such Participant shall 
immediately vest and such shares of Restricted Stock shall no longer be 
subject to forfeiture hereunder. "Disability" shall mean total and permanent 
disability as determined under the Company's long-term disability program as 
from time to time in effect.

            (vi)   It shall be a condition to the obligation of the Company 
to issue Stock upon the lapse of restrictions on Restricted Stock that the 
Participant (or any beneficiary) pay to the Company, upon its demand, such 
amount as may be requested by the Company for the purpose of satisfying any 
liability to withhold federal, state or local income or other taxes. If the 
amount requested is not paid, the Company may refuse to issue shares.

Section 6.  ADJUSTMENTS UPON CHANGES IN CAPITALIZATION/CHANGE IN CONTROL.  In 
the event of any change in the outstanding capital stock of the Company by 
reason of any stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization, merger, 
consolidation, reorganization, combination or exchange of shares or other 
similar event and such change equitably requires an adjustment in the number 
or kind of shares that may be issued under the Plan, such adjustment shall be 
made by the Board and shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes of the 
Plan. If the Company or the shareholders of the Company enter into an 
agreement to dispose of all or substantially all of the assets or shares by 
means of a sale, a reorganization, a liquidation, or otherwise, all 
restrictions on any shares of Restricted Stock granted hereunder shall be 
immediately removed and such shares shall be deemed fully vested and no 
longer subject to forfeiture.

Section 7.  AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION.  The Plan may be amended or terminated 
at any time and from time to time by the Board. Neither an amendment to the 
Plan nor the termination of the Plan shall adversely affect any right of any 
Participant with respect to any Restricted Stock theretofore received 
hereunder without such Participant's written consent.

Section 8.  NO EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS.  Neither the adoption of the Plan by the 
Company nor the participation in the Plan by any employee shall confer upon 
any employee of the Company any right to continued employment with the Company 
or interfere in any way with the right of the Company to terminate the 
employment of any of its employees at any time.

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