History of Polo Shirts
This article of clothing is known variously as a เสื้อโปโล, tennis shirt, golf shirt. Polo shirts, which are typically worn by polo players and have short sleeves but can be long if necessary, were first used by polo players in India in 1859 and by British polo players in the 1920s.
Polo shirts are typically knitted rather than woven, and the cotton used is typically piqué knit or interlock knit (the latter is commonly used with pima cotton polos, though not exclusively so). Other fibres, such as silk, wool, synthetic fibres, or blends of natural and synthetic fibres, are also used. A polo dress is a long sleeved variation of the polo shirt.
Tennis players in the 19th and early 20th centuries wore "tennis whites," which consisted of long-sleeved white button-up shirts (worn with the sleeves rolled up), flannel trousers, and ties. This outfit caused challenges for ease of play and comfort .
René Lacoste, a French seven-time Grand Slam tennis champion, thought the traditional tennis outfit was too stiff and uncomfortable,so he created a white, short-sleeved, loosely-knit piqué cotton (he called the cotton weave jersey petit piqué) shirt with an unstarched, flat, protruding collar, a buttoned placket, and a shirt-tail longer in back than in front (today known as a "tennis Championship to everyone who wants to enter.
The American press had begun to refer to Lacoste as "The Crocodile" by 1927, and he gladly accepted the moniker.Lacoste began to wear a crocodile insignia on the left breast of his shirts that year.
Polo shirts are typically knitted rather than woven, and the cotton used is typically piqué knit or interlock knit (the latter is commonly used with pima cotton polos, though not exclusively so). Other fibres, such as silk, wool, synthetic fibres, or blends of natural and synthetic fibres, are also used. A polo dress is a long sleeved variation of the polo shirt.
Tennis players in the 19th and early 20th centuries wore "tennis whites," which consisted of long-sleeved white button-up shirts (worn with the sleeves rolled up), flannel trousers, and ties. This outfit caused challenges for ease of play and comfort .
René Lacoste, a French seven-time Grand Slam tennis champion, thought the traditional tennis outfit was too stiff and uncomfortable,so he created a white, short-sleeved, loosely-knit piqué cotton (he called the cotton weave jersey petit piqué) shirt with an unstarched, flat, protruding collar, a buttoned placket, and a shirt-tail longer in back than in front (today known as a "tennis Championship to everyone who wants to enter.
The American press had begun to refer to Lacoste as "The Crocodile" by 1927, and he gladly accepted the moniker.Lacoste began to wear a crocodile insignia on the left breast of his shirts that year.