Talk:Polo shirt

message: Some polo shirts have 3 buttons or even 2 in Marks and Spencers--Snow storm in Eastern Asia (talk) 13:24, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm also wearing a two button Polo Shirt at the moment. However, I do think this shirt is one of the most recent ones I bought. Jon (talk) 22:27, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Mine has 5, chavs!--Sarurahn (talk) 19:11, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Mine has 3.Trish pt7 (talk) (talk) 19:10, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: buttons

message: I have yet to see a Polo Shirt with 2 buttons, most of the ones I have ever seen have 3 or 4 buttons-User:GeorgeFormby1  —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 09:05, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm also wearing a two button Polo Shirt at the moment. However, I do think this shirt is one of the most recent ones I bought. Jon (talk) 22:27, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Mine has 5, chavs!--Sarurahn (talk) 19:11, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Mine has 3.Trish pt7 (talk) (talk) 19:10, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Number of Buttons

message: I think this page should be titled "Polo Shirt". Not only do I believe that  to be the more common name (althought I don't know for sure -  no polls have been done), it is also the name that most refers to the type of shirt and least to the type of sport. People might wear a tennis shirt for tennis, a golf shirt for golf, but few people, unless they own a horse and are members of the British Royal family, would wear a polo shirt for polo, or associate the style of shirt particularly with polo.
Also, Carson Kressley, in Off the Cuff, states that a golf shirt is different from a polo shirt (although only slightly - and I am aware that a  statement by Carson Kressley is not the be-all and end-all judgement on the matter.) - Matthew238 07:37, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I challenge the notion that Tennis was the original purpose of the shirt.  In unrelated fashion research I have come across references to "polo shirts," some with illustrations and photos that leave no doubt that we are talking about the same garment, from the 1910s and 1920s, before Rene Lacoste changes the typical tennis uniform.  I don't know a lot about this topic, but it is pretty clear that the style at least (can't sat the fabric) existed and was called "polo" prior to 1933. TheCormac (talk) 03:42, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

text: I would support a move to polo shirt too. Anyone feel like proposing an RM? Cheers, DWaterson 01:54, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In the UK it is called a polo shirt too - one of the rare instances where there's a debate over the name and there are people on both sides of the Atlantic arguing for the same name. Blankfrackis (talk) 23:16, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Polo or Tennis?

message: A source is definately needed for this; particularly since the temperature would be a natural factor in how many (if any) too button while outside when this isn't worn as a uniform. Jon 20:31, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Source needed for style

message: who calls it a tennis shirt ?? 
*Lots of people do. Lacoste does. I do. Most of my friends do. It's the original name. Leave this be. 65.28.9.8 06:13, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not accurate.  Polo shirts were called polo shirts long before Ralph Lauren.  Polo shirts are seen and described as such in numerous fashion advertisements in magazines and newspapers for decades before the first one marketed by Ralph Lauren's Polo brand in 1972.  (Indeed they are seen in advertisements before Rene Lacoste began marketing his in 1933, contrary to this article's assertions.)  Lauren's Polo brand started in 1967 making ties; its now famous logo is actually a symbol of the island of Brioni which had been reproduced on a scarf that Lauren had bought sometime after his company was named and launched.  Lauren first used it commercially on the sleeves of shirts in a woman's wear line before he later used it (in a clever and/or lucky piece of marketing) on the chest of polo shirts. TheCormac (talk) 03:49, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  separate article for polo shirt needed  

message: In the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs of the "Application to polo and other sports" section, it first mentions that the term "polo shirt" became universal in the 1950's, and then says that in 1967 people began calling Lacoste's tennis shirts "polo shirts".  Is the article contradicting itself here?
I'm as confused as you are, comrade!Wipsenade (talk) 17:59, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction? 

message: In the 2nd to last paragraph, "The easily-upturnable collar remains another athletic aid." this makes no sense to me.
Revan111 20:41, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Read the article upturned collar. Rene Lacoste's original purpose for the upturnable-collar on the tennis shirt was to block the sun from one's neck. Today, one sees this most in golf. 65.28.9.8 16:22, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  In what way is a collar that can be turned up useful for athletics? 

message: Based on the many discussions above, and the newspaper ad evidence, and the fact that most links to this page already use the term Polo shirt, I tried to move it to Polo shirt.  But that failed because there is an existing Talk:Polo_shirt page, so something was done wrong in the past.  So I asked the admins to do it at Wikipedia:Requested_moves --NealMcB 17:41, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Keep. If one types in "polo shirt," it redirects to this article, where all relevant information is displayed, including information about the different names for this type of shirt. Moreover, the website on which your proposed move relies was set up specifically to counter not only this page, but also the entire accepted history of the tennis shirt, only to make an ultra-minority view into a mainstream one. Your "polo shirt history" page is not a valid source for Wikipedia purposes, and certainly does not do away with the accepted history of the tennis shirt, as mentioned on countless websites, including the official histories of Brooks Brothers, Polo Ralph Lauren, and Chemise Lacoste. Your page relies solely on information from a lawsuit's failed defense in the 1980s, a misconstrual of what the term "polo shirt" meant between the 1890s and 1960s, and a disdain for the accepted history.  By all means include a "cricitism" or "minority view" section in this article, but moving it to "polo shirt" simply to placate your desire to overturn the accepted history of the tennis shirt is not necessary.65.66.153.99 21:49, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Typing in "polo shirt" redirects to this article. There is no problem with linking to or finding this article. I don't know about the "majority of English speakers," but Rene Lacoste originally called this style of shirt - which he invented - a "tennis shirt," and marketed it as such. I have always heard this type of shirt referred to as a "tennis shirt," except in very recent years.  That Ralph Lauren's marketing in the early 1970s made people identify the shirt with the sport of polo so as to enhance his company's and clothing's allure, is not reason enough to change it. As such, because "polo shirt" is mere marketing for Ralph Lauren, and there currently is no difficulty linking to or finding this article, the name should not be changed. This article is not about the shirt manufactured by Ralph Lauren, but rather the basic style of shirt which Rene Lacoste designed and marketed in the 1920s and 1930s, which is, and always has been, a tennis shirt. Leave it be. 65.66.153.99 18:40, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Lacoste in USA 1926.jpg

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:Polo Ralph Lauren logo.png

message: It's in first person and reads like a blog entry. I deleted it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.33.32.197 (talk) 03:08, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weird discussion at the end of the article 

message: This has been a question since Business Casual became the craze in the 1990's.  Most Polo (Golf) shirts have 3 buttons.  When wearing a 3-button polo (golf) shirt to the office, the rule of thumb is that the bottom two buttons should be actually buttoned.  If you are wearing a golf shirt with 2 buttons, then the bottom button should actually be buttoned.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.2.193.1 (talk) 14:00, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proper Way to Button a Polo Shirt 

message: I don't know about everyone else, but I get some weird images in my head when I read that sentence. Evanh2008, Super Genius (User page) (talk) 08:53, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very few golfers wear anything else 

message: The intro says Polo shirts are usually made of knitted cloth (rather than woven cloth), usually piqué cotton, but the linked article says piqué is a kind of woven cloth.  Again in the history section, He designed a white, short-sleeved, loosely-knit piqué cotton (he called the cotton weave jersey petit piqué) shirt.  I think we can all agree that polo shirts are of knitted fabric.  So is the piqué article wrong, or are polo shirts not piqué?  My guess is that the fabric is properly called "piqué knit", i.e. a knit that's named after the weave called piqué, and that this is common enough that it ought to be noted in the piqué article.  But that's just a guess. --Dan Wylie-Sears 2 (talk) 11:29, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Currently, 2024, there is no link in support of the statement. (All my polo shirts are woven).Kdammers (talk) 17:18, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Knit vs weave 

message: I suggest that the section be deleted. Roxy, the dog. wooF 18:47, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of brands is unencyclopeadic 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Chukker shirt. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 November 14#Chukker shirt until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Ibadibam (talk) 06:11, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Chukker shirt" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: The introduction is inadequate.  How could one get an idea of what a PS is from it?  It's a shirt with a collar -- that leaves out a key point to wit, the shirt has a collar placket. Kdammers (talk) 17:20, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intro