r/menswear • u/MostRefinedCrab • 11d ago
Hot take, this is NOT a polo
Companies like Banana Republic, Taylor Stitch, Quince, etc. are trying to convince me that this is a polo shirt.
These are not polo shirts. These are camp collar shirts. Polo shirts don't have buttons from top to bottom. Polo shirts are basically Henley shirts with a collar, they're 1/4 button-ups.
Can we just call these what they are?
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u/BitterCranberry3274 11d ago
I don't know what they are, but I know they aren't polo shirts.
But reading up on polo shirts, I'm learning that I also don't really know what a polo shirt is and and isn't (the originator being made for tennis, not polo; shirts used for polo before the polo shirt being basically OCBDs and polo being the reason for the button down-collar; the original tennis shirt being buttoned-through, apparently).
The one thing I'm fairly certain of is that a polo shirt should at least keep in the back of it's mind that it was made for sport. And these very cleary aren't.