Polo Shirts - How do you feel about them?

deb

I have never been into polo shirts. Maybe it brings back high school gym class. Now, I read it is replacing the worn tee to semi tuck. Will you be sporting them this season?

9 years ago

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Diana

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Preppiest of the preppy. Not for me.

9 years ago

Joy

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Not for me. I associate them with business uniforms worn with khaki slacks. I like them on my DH better than tees and so to me they have a masculine look.

9 years ago

kkards

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there is a time a place for everything.....i don't like them for an everyday type of thing, but sometimes i just want to let my inner preppy out.

9 years ago

Keturah

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Not for me. They look distinctly preppy to me. Also, when I was extremely overweight, I wore a lot of polos. I don't know exactly why. I just remember having two or three in constant rotation. That was almost 15 years ago, but I still associate them with my larger, awkward high school and college years. I just can't find it in my heart to wear them.

Though Jackie O wore them with such perfect American elegance and I think they are good on the right woman. I saw a woman just yesterday wearing one, collar popped up, worn with a puffer vest, tasteful expensive-looking jewelry and darling little ballet flats. She was more mature in age but looked incredibly classy and chic.

9 years ago

Janet

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Hmm, I wore them in high school and early in college (I had just a smidge of inner prep at the time, which was really fun for throwing people off their initial impressions of me, since I was also into punk rock). And 10 or so years ago, I had a black polo style shirt (no logo) that I really enjoyed wearing. It was quite fitted though, not a straight-cut men's polo. I dunno, I might wear one like that again, but only if it were exactly the right cut.

9 years ago

approprio

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Well, polo shirts have very particular connotations to me as a Brit, because of the classic Fred Perry shirts. I always associate them with skinheads. But Amy Winehouse looked great in them.

9 years ago

Anonymous

I don't wear them, too preppy for me.

9 years ago

Astrid

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Not for me either.

9 years ago

donnat

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They look horrible on me.

9 years ago

Deb

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I see them as a mens shirt style and I do quite like one unbuttoned, with rolled chinos on a man for a casual summer look.....Italiano- like.
I have never considered buying one for myself.

9 years ago

Daria

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Definitely not for me. I had to wear company polo shirts once at a conference and they looked so horrible on me.

9 years ago

MsMaven

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Once in a while I find a long sleeved polo I like. Not a fan of the short-sleeved ones--just not me.

9 years ago

always trying

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Wore them years ago mostly as my yachting gear. Now no because they look like something to wear if I played golf, which I don't.

9 years ago

milehighstyle (Linda)

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Not for me. I think they are flattering on a small amount of women, but not on me.

9 years ago

Anonymous

Nope, not for me either.

9 years ago

old chic

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I have a long-standing pet peeve concerning the use of polos for trade show wear. I always thought the polos we would make staff don with chinos to "work" our booth at trade shows were an insult to the girls. That costume looks fine, though totally without character (I guess that's the point), on the men. But it is an atrocity on most of the women, especially when they are forced to all wear the men's cuts. Always thought that -- if it had to be unisex -- the outfit would be so much better for everybody if it included a button-down cotton oxford, separately tailored for the men's and women's sizes. To give a little personality, a button down's sleeves can be rolled, a scarf can be added, jewelry can look good, etc....

9 years ago

DonnaF

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I associate them with a nearby Catholic high school's uniform and with my mother who used to wear them a LOT. That being said, I rescued a black'n'white striped polo shirt from DD's Goodwill pile, and I've worn it from time to time because I like black'n'white stripes and many times I need to wear a collar for warmth.

Good question. I rather like androgynous, but I have a visceral reaction against polo shirts. Maybe it has to do with my mom?

9 years ago

Anonymous

only on the golf course, and they must be fitted and cut properly, and with a shaped sleeve, not a men's short sleeve

9 years ago

Aziraphale

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Not a fan of polo shirts. They scream "country club".

9 years ago

rizamei

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I wore them a lot in the early 00s. Later, I kept buying them out of habit, and it took me a while to realize I no longer liked wearing them.

9 years ago

Kirstjen

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The last one I owned was a kelly green Izod in 1980 when I was trying to be preppy.

9 years ago

Vicki

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I didn't get this memo, Deb. So, the polo is replacing the tee and are they oversized in order to do a semi-tuck?
I have a black Izod and a white Izod I only wear in the summer around the house. I do like the lines of the longer black one, whereas the white one is cropped. When wearing one, it always seems like I've just come off playing a round of golf, and I don't play golf!
All very interesting.
P. S. Your gym suit sounds cuter than our almost-onesy navy sleeveless jumpshorts.

9 years ago

Marina

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Not a fan of polos myself and not wearing them either.
And I think you can avoid prep and country club style ... looking more like yatch club style =P

9 years ago

Glory

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Interesting. I haven't shopped in quite a while but was in Winners this week and they had scads of them in various fabrics and colours. My DD who enjoys equestrian sports likes them and is pestering me for one.

9 years ago

Sveta

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I never liked them - but then I also don't like t-shirts so I may be biased...

9 years ago

Anonymous

One word: Ugh! I don't like t-shirts, either.

9 years ago

Susie

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Oh my no.

9 years ago

Zibbets

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I like sleeveless ones, if they fit right. They're preppy for certain.

9 years ago

cjh

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Meh. Not for me, I always feel too manly, even in the feminized cuts. I have had several bosses over the years suggest seriously that [whatever business it was] adopt a uniform of these shirts with logos. AACCKK. I would've looked around for another job, I think.

That being said, when we were 4-H leaders, I always ordered the club tshirt in a polo style because the unisex cotton club logo tshirts were even worse.

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