Comments on: Technicalities | The Polo® Shirt

By: Speedmaster

Speedmaster — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:08:16 +0000

Very interesting, thanks!

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:50:21 +0000

Adam’s correct in that “polo” has come to define the tennis shirt, but he also demonstrates the trouble with not reading fully the link posted. Follow Adam’s link and scroll down to the subtitle, “Application to polo and other sports”. There you will see that Brooks Brothers is referenced as the inventor of what was then known as the polo shirt.

To wit:

“Before Lacoste’s 1933 mass-marketing of his tennis shirt, polo players wore thick long-sleeve shirts made of Oxford-cloth cotton. This shirt was the first to have a buttoned-down collar, which polo players invented in the late nineteenth century to keep their collars from flapping in the wind (Brooks Brothers’s early president John Brooks noticed this while at a polo match in England, and began producing such a shirt in 1896). Brooks Brothers still produces this style of button-down ‘polo shirt’.”

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:38:51 +0000

These aren’t polo shirts, they’re oxfords.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polo_shirt

By: BobbyRieg

BobbyRieg — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:00:26 +0000

I always thought of Polo shirts as the cotton pull over with three buttons at the front like the ones L L Bean sells. Maybe that’s an Ohio thing, but that’s what LLBean.com calls them. Probably used as a style rather than a brand name.

By: David

David — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:50:48 +0000

I honestly have wondered why the Yarmouth shirt by Ralph Lauren had a different label. It might be a little known fact not worth knowing for most, but this really satisfies a long-time curiosity for me!

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:58:18 +0000

Nice fun post.

I won a bet for knowing that at the ky derby.

Whens that bag come out?

By: rye on the rocks

rye on the rocks — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:40:24 +0000

Very interesting. I have been schooled.