Polo Shirts - Their History and Necessity For the Wardrobe
The polo shirt is exactly what it sounds like: a shirt designed for the comfort of athletes in other sports and polo players. The shirt took over the long sleeved, buttoned down, collared, cotton fabric, undoubtedly uncomfortable ones that had been worn in the 1800s. In the 1930's Rene Lacoste, a tennis player, cut off the long sleeves and only applied buttons part way down on his shirts for tennis players . The collar still protected the back of the neck from the sun, but was more comfortable with the top buttons open. Lacoste appliquéd an alligator on his shirts as an indication of the longer back , or tail, of the shirt. Argentine polo player , Lewis Lacey, appliquéd a polo player on his brand of the shirt and the "Polo Shirt" had arrived. Polo players found this design much more comfortable than those that had been traditionally worn . The "new" shirt was made from softer fabric as well. This change made play much more comfortable, easing their move...