What's the origin of the polo shirt?
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tennis player used to wear long, bulky outfits during their matches known as “tennis whites”. Long sleeve shirts, long pants, ties—a far cry from what the players wear in today's modern game. It wasn't until the mid-1920s that a tennis player Rene Lacoste came up with the ground-breaking alternative seen in today's fashion. Not only did his breakthrough design pave the way for a revolution in the game of tennis, it quickly found its way to the golf and polo greens as well. Lacoste's design is now a part of mainstream culture and can be seen not only in sports, but in common, mainstream fashion.
