The button on the collar came when John Brooks (Brooks Brothers) was visiting England. Whist in a polo match, he noted that shirt collars players flapped in the wind. Brooks Brothers continue to produce this style of shirt today.
Around 1920, a polo player and haberdasher by the name of Lewis Lacey started making polo shirts. The logo was a polo player. The project came the now famous Hurlingham Polo Club in Buenos Aires. This type of clothing was also used by the day tennis players, including Rene Lacoste. It produces its own shirt which consisted of a white, pink cotton shirt loose knit short-sleeved collar flat without exceeding the gum buttoned opening, and a long shirt-tail in the back than the front. Lacoste called the cotton fabric jersey petit piqué. In the 1930s, the polo fraternity had new clothes of knowledge of Rene Lacoste. Because the shirt was much more comfortable to use than your existing folders, they quickly began to wear the shirt for polo.
In 1933, the company was formed Chemise Lacoste by Lacoste and friend clothing merchant André Gillier, after his retirement from professional tennis. The company Lacoste polo shirt embroidered shirts marketed in North America and Europe. As part of its brand, the now famous crocodile logo is embroidered on the left breast of the shirt.
Around 1950, the word "Polo" was common in America, which was the design of Lacoste. Although the court had used this design before the polo teams, which was and is still known as the polo shirt.
In the 1970s, Ralph Lauren presented its line of shirts. The polo has played a leading role in this line.
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