The polo shirt, from the court to the locker room

If we owe polo (sport) one of the great inventions in the history of men's clothing - namely the button-down collar of oxford shirts - the cotton pique top that borrows its name from it was born on the tennis court. And in France, since it is the invention of René Lacoste, in reaction to the very strict dress code imposed on players during the 1920s, forced to play in flannel pants and rolled up shirt arms. Dressed in this kind of short-sleeved top buttoned up, he won the US Open in 1926 and 1927. What could only have been a sportsman's choice became fashion legend when, in 1933, André Gillier, then at the head of the family hosiery company (also inventor of the kangaroo briefs), offered him to join forces to market the said favorite liquette on a large scale.The “Lacoste shirt”, in cotton pique and with the crocodile emblem on the chest (after the nickname of the musketeer), was born. Polo players adopt it,

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