When I was a child, I was a square, fat boy with a height of 150cm and a weight of 150kg. At that time, when I wore clothes, I was most concerned about whether my breasts would look bigger or my belly would look rounder (please understand this for a short, fat male child). Looking back now, the extremely oversized top made me look like a ball.

▲ Don’t laugh

In the second year of junior high school, the school forced every student to buy a new set of school uniforms, which were specially designed for participating in activities, including a children’s version. Polo shirt, but with zippers instead of buttons. After wearing the original shape of the cube, you will have a completely different experience from wearing a T-shirt. Since the collar has a zipper that can be adjusted, the feeling of the chest changes from “pointy” to “bulging”, and the belly also shrinks a bit. From then on, I fell in love with polo shirts, and later I found that shirts have the same effect.

The fundamental reason is that collared clothes will adjust the body posture from the shoulders, making people more upright, and adjusting the collar through buttons or zippers can match the body posture and posture of different people. Dressing habits.

When I was in college, I had successfully lost weight and gradually formed my own dressing style. My favorite summer combination is khaki pants/shorts + polo shirt + low/high top casual sneakers. If you can Put on a white base layer, and it’s the serious school uniform of the year.

Why are Polo shirts so popular

In 1933, Frenchman Rene Lacoste designed an undershirt for himself for playing tennis and golf. This is The earliest prototype of polo shirt. Because under the cultural background of the time, tennis and golf were sports reserved for aristocrats, and the default attire was a traditional long-sleeved shirt and tie, which was uncomfortable and not suitable for exercise. The short-sleeved and collared polo shirt not only significantly increases the body’s movement space, but also retains a formal feel (collar) to a certain extent.

And this man, Rene Lacoste, is the founder of the French brand Lacoste.

It is not difficult to see from the cultural background of the invention of the polo shirt that it is a casual improvement based on the shirt. It retains most of the gentlemanly attributes of the shirt, but at the same time adds The function of leisure sports. This is why polo shirts are available in tailor-made suit shops and sporting goods stores. In fact, the basic attire for tennis and golf now still revolves around the polo shirt.

I think it’s not too much to call it a tiger balm outfit item. Whether it’s a work meeting or a date party, wearing polo is a choice that can never go wrong and even often makes you stand out.

How to wear a Polo shirt?

If we want to talk about how to wear polo shirts, it is better to talk about how not to wear polo shirts.

This article summarizes the 6 major minefields of polo shirts. I hope friends will never fall into the trap.

◆ Stand-up collar

The craze caused by the hit drama “Struggle” seems to be synonymous with country bumpkin at this moment. Now it is mostly favored by urban and rural entrepreneurs.

◆ Unbuttoned

If it is an ordinary three-button polo shirt, buttoning all buttons is considered a gentleman, unbuttoning one button is chic, and unbuttoning two buttons is chic. Unruly, if you untie three of them, you will be a gangster.

◆ A neckline design that uses zippers instead of buttons

It is silly to zip it up, but it looks like a young man in society if it is not zipped up. It is a very unclassy design.

◆ Fat or tight

Unless you really love hip-hop or country non-mainstream, never be fat or tight. A slim fit is the correct way to open a polo shirt. Both too long and too short are wrong. The shortest one should cover the waistband, and the longest one should not exceed the crotch or cover the buttocks.

◆ Exaggerated large stripes or old-school dark stripes

Wearing polo shirts in an old-fashioned way depends on all the patterns that are so earthy that they are boring, even if they are It is possible to match any candy-colored polo shirt properly, but this one is absolutely not possible. High-quality solid colors are the first choice.

◆ Silk or poplin and other smooth fabrics

IfIf you like this kind of fabric with extremely drapey properties, why not choose a Hawaiian shirt? The way Polo is played is an organic combination of gentlemanly feeling and sporty leisure. If you want a crisp texture, choosing high-quality pure cotton is the best way.

How to choose a polo shirt that suits your style?

The “polo shirt” that everyone needs is absolutely different, depending on whether your dressing style is closer to gentleman style or casual style (work clothes, Japanese street style, etc.).

· Old A is in his early 30s and works in a state-owned enterprise. His requirements for polo shirts are “not too fashionable” and “not too fashionable”. After Benge thought about it, he was given three brands to choose from, which would definitely not go wrong and meet his needs – Crocodile, Ralph Lauren, and 2B Brothers (Brooks Brothers).

▲Reference price: 1,032 yuan (official e-commerce flagship store)

· Old B is about to turn 30. He is a nearly successful man who has made achievements in starting his own business. His requirement for polo shirts is “quality” Low profile” and “comfortable”. To put it bluntly, the materials are good and there is no big logo. Then you can choose high-quality fast-moving goods such as Muji and Uniqlo, or advanced Burberry and Sunspel.

▲Sunspel has been certified by the British Royal Family, and the reference price of the same model as 007 is 850 yuan ()

· Old C is a single and stupid young man in his early 20s who has just started working. The most important thing he thinks about every day is how to catch up. Fuck your own goddess. When buying a polo shirt, it needs to be “fashionable”, “handsome”, and not “tacky and exaggerated”. It is a standard need to be stable and skinny. Under such requirements, Dickies, A&F, and Fred Perry are all good choices.

▲The reference price is 799 yuan (official e-commerce flagship store)

Some friends may be curious about which brand of polo I like best. Old viewers all know that Benge is a fanatical retro fanatic, and he has an unspeakable paranoia for his branch, Aizen. Pure Blue Japan’s handmade blue-dyed polo using pure natural plant dyes is my favorite. As it is worn, washed, and stored day after day, it will have a unique fading effect, which is beautiful.

▲Reference price is 1,000 yuan

Very important note: For all the above brands except FMCG, if you find a reliable purchasing agent, you can buy them at half price. You can search on Taobao yourself.

◆ Written at the end, the old rules

It is also a polo shirt, also made of pure cotton fabric, maybe the tailoring is similar. Why are the prices of polo shirts so different? There are many for hundreds of yuan, but there are still many for thousands of yuan?

I think this is a matter of “lizi” and “face”.

Polo shirts worth tens or hundreds of dollars are a matter of “lizi”, while those worth hundreds or thousands of dollars are a matter of “face.”

Wearing clothes expresses more about “what kind of person you are” and “what kind of person do you want to be”.