Polo shirts
Apopular style since before 1933 when Lacoste first started mass marketing his tennis shirts, polo shirts were a popular thick sleeve cotton shirt worn by polo players, then in 1920, Lewis Lacey, an Argentine Irish haberdasher and polo player, began producing a shirt that was embroidered with the logo of a polo player, a design originated at the Hurlingham Polo Club near Buenos Aires.
From then on the style was popular with polo players and tennis players and the sports fans and then in 1972 Ralph Lauren included his “polo shirt” as a prominent part of his original line called Polo, thereby helping to further its already widespread popularity.
Today polo shirts are hugely popular in women’s and men’s clothing as well as useful uniform when the t-shirt looks too casual. Now you can get polo shirts in a wide range of colours, some with patterns and pictures on and some with brand writing.
