René Lacoste, the French 7-time Grand Slam tennis champion, decided that the stiff tennis attire was a problem and sought to come up with a solution. He designed a white, short-sleeved, loosely knitpiqué cotton (he called the cotton weave jersey petit piqué) shirt with an un-starched, flat protruding collar, a buttoned placket, and a longer shirt-tail in back than in front, which he first wore at the 1926 U.S. Open championship. Beginning in 1927, Lacoste placed a crocodile emblem on the left breast of his shirts, and in 2009 the iconic crocodile and polo style remains unchanged.
To some extent I agree, I am a big fan of the polo shirt. For the past 5 years I have pretty much stopped acquiring regular t-shirts and have exclusively wore polos. There is something about wearing a polo that just feels RIGHT.
But you have to ask yourself isn't it time for change?
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