HISTORY OF THE POLO SHIRT...

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, tennis chaps wore “tennis whites” which were long-sleeved white button-up shirts and as you can imagine this wasn’t the most comfortable attire to wear for a game of tennis (If you want to test this for yourself, wear your work shirt next time your hitting a few down the park with your mates).

The first polo shirt came from a guy called René, the French 7-time Grand Slam tennis champion. He didn’t like the stiff tennis attire and often said it was far too uncomfortable.

In 1920, Lewis Lacey, an Argentine Irish haberdasher and polo player, began producing a shirt that was embroidered with the logo of a polo player, a design originated at the Hurlingham Polo Club near Buenos Aires. The term “polo shirt”, which previously only had referred to the long-sleeved buttoned-down shirts traditionally used in polo, soon became the name for the “tennis shirt”. Indeed, tennis players often would refer to their shirt as a “polo shirt”, even though their sport had used it long before polo did.

So now you know the history, why not take a look at our new polo shirt (Or tennis shirt to be correct) collection which features our new Falcon logo embroidery and are designed on the classic fit.

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