All About the Polo Shirt
Sportswear is defined as clothing for men and women that are composed of separate pieces from khaki pants and sports jackets to polo shirts and tennis skirts that can be combined in a variety of outfits that meet the dress code for both active and casual wear. History of the Polo Shirt The shirt's design has its roots in the athletic pursuit of tennis - although polo players as well as golfers have also long incorporated them into their sportswear regimen. Rene Lacoste was a French 7-time Grand Slam champion who became tired of the uncomfortable tennis whites that were the tradition tennis dress code. He designed a short-sleeved loosely-knit pique cotton shirt with an un-starched, flat protruding collar, buttoned placket and a longer shirt tail in the back that came to be known as the tennis tail. His use of the now ubiquitous crocodile logo to mark his shirts earned him the nickname "the Crocodile". The Lacoste brand began mass-producing the design in the 1930s. Polo pl...