Polo
Short-sleeved top with a shirt collar and a short placket with two or three buttons. The classic version is made of piqué and comes from tennis; smoother jersey versions look a little calmer. It is the smarter step above the T-shirt and goes with chinos, linen and fresco, in summer also under an unlined sport coat. The collar should be firm enough not to fall flat.
In the catalog
From the Guide
- Navy on top is the safest choice: safe with light, gray, earth-toned and brown trousers. Navy with navy or with jeans only works with a clearly different fabric.
- White is safe with light trousers, navy, jeans, taupe and olive. With gray and brown it works, but looks flatter; a top with texture helps there.
- Black on top is the hardest color: safe only with jeans, with everything else at best “works”, and with navy trousers we avoid it.
Related terms
- FrescoWorsted in an open plain weave made of highly twisted yarns.
- PiquéCotton fabric with a raised, honeycomb-like structure; on the polo it is a knit piqué.
- Oxford shirtShirt made of Oxford cloth, usually with a button-down collar whose points are buttoned to the shirt.
- Poplin shirtShirt made of poplin: smooth, dense and fine, with a collar that carries a tie, such as the wide-spread cutaway collar.
- Chambray shirtShirt made of chambray, which from a distance looks like lightweight denim.
- Camp-collar shirtShirt with a flat, open lapel collar without a collar stand and a straight hem, made to be worn untucked.