THE POLO shirt has been a staple in the menswear universe for well, ever. Seriously—we’re talking since it first appeared during polo matches in the mid-1800s when it was reinvented first by New York clothier John E. Brooks (of Brooks Brother) in 1896, and then in 1933 by French tennis player Jean René Lacoste (yes, that Lacoste) who commercially reimagined the pique cotton short-sleeve style as we know it today for tennis matches.
Since then, the life of polo shirts for men has been on a roll, from the days of tennis whites to the ‘70s knitted and striped iterations to the boxy cuts made famous by your dad’s golfing crew. Really, as a timeless style staple, there has been nothing frumpy about any batch of polo shirts we’ve seen over the decades, and certainly not today’s performance-backed take on polo shirts which are now infused with feats like moisture-wicking and four-way stretch.
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