EXHIBIT 5.0

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PIPER
MARBURY
RUDNICK
& WOLFE   LLP
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6225 Smith Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21209-3600
www.piperrudnick.com

PHONE (410) 580-3000
FAX   (410) 580-3001
                               September 29, 2000


I.C. Isaacs & Company, Inc.
3840 Bank Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21224-2522

Ladies and Gentlemen:

         We have acted as counsel for I.C.  Isaacs & Company,  Inc.,  a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"),  in connection with the preparation and filing with
the Securities and Exchange  Commission of a Registration  Statement on Form S-8
(the "Registration  Statement")  registering 600,000 shares of Common Stock, par
value  $0.0001 per share (the  "Shares"),  issuable  pursuant to the exercise of
awards granted under the I.C. Isaacs & Company,  Inc.  Amended and Restated 1997
Omnibus Stock Plan (the "Plan").

         We  have  examined  copies  of  the  Company's   Amended  and  Restated
Certificate of  Incorporation  and Amended and Restated  By-Laws,  the Plan, all
resolutions  adopted by the Company's  Board of Directors  relating to the above
and other records and documents that we have deemed necessary for the purpose of
this opinion. We have also examined such other documents,  papers,  statutes and
authorities as we have deemed necessary to form a basis for this opinion. In our
examination,  we  have  assumed  the  genuineness  of  all  signatures  and  the
conformity  to original  documents of all copies  submitted to us. As to various
questions of fact  material to this opinion,  we have relied on  statements  and
certificates of officers and representatives of the Company and others.

         Based  upon  the  foregoing,  we are of the  opinion  that  the  Shares
issuable under the Plan have been duly authorized and will be (when issued, sold
and delivered as authorized) validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

         The opinion set forth herein is limited to matters governed by the laws
of the State of Delaware and the Federal  Laws of the United  States of America,
and we express no opinion as to any other laws.

         We hereby  consent to the filing of this  opinion as Exhibit 5.0 to the
Registration Statement.

                                      Very truly yours,

                                      /s/ PIPER MARBURY RUDNICK & WOLFE LLP