| Abstrakt: |
Emblematic or not, polo shirts are now worn by more men to play the ponies than to ride them. It wasn't always so. The first polo shirt - a white, short-sleeved, wool-jersey pullover with a turned-down collar - was designed in the early 1900's to allow freedom of mallet-swinging movement. Form followed a polo player's function. Back then, no tennis player, self-respecting or otherwise, would ever have presumed to appear courtside in other than a normal white shirt, sleeves only occasionally rolled. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
