thank you!! someone had to say it. BTW.... where the hell does all this polo resentment come from??? i've never in my 21 years heard of such nonsense.
Bleh...I've never owned a polo shirt in my entire life. My entire wardrobe consists of t-shirts, jerseys, long-sleeved dress shirts, sports jackets, mesh shorts, jeans, various velour pieces, tennis shoes and boots. Polo shirts are for preppy dorks. No offense, Nomar, but that ensemble you mentioned screams "Computer Geeks of America Summer Picnic."
uhhh....maybe if you pull up your socks to your knees. Otherwise, go with the no sock look and throw on a backwards hat and youve got yourself an outfit that isnt dorky. Not even close.
Good point, yes. I'll need to get a new belt this weekend. SWTsig, all I can say is, about nonsense, you must have skillfully avoided all my posts up to this point. And as for Greg Norman, do all his shirts have the little shark emblem? I could go for that, if I had to get a Polo. (PS -- the lesbian starter kit option is staging a comeback!)
i've never been a big fan of polo's b/c they're hotter than most shirts and i'm hot as it is if the temp is over 60, so i don't need any help. however, i'm getting more accustomed to them and wear them occasionally. mostly have hilfiger's. as far as untucked=white trash? huh? everyone i see on campus wearing them is untucked. tucked is only if something formal is going on. which leads to buck's excellent point, they're a great substitute for a shirt and tie if the occasion is formal but not so formal that shirt and tie is necessary. and since they were brought up, how many undershirts should one own and how often should they be replaced? i need to avoid the sweat stain factor (like i said, i get hot even when it's cool) so i gotta have plenty.
See, this is why I hesitated to use the term "mullet," because people would think of class division. Honestly I think polo shirts, (both tucked and untucked), transcend class divisions. They are eveywhere, and if anything, they might be most common in the middle and upper-middle classes. Does anything say thug less than a polo does? If I ever go on a crime spree, I will be clean shaven and wearing a polo.
B-Bob, I respect you and consider you to be one of the funniest (maybe the funniest) posters here; however, as some others have said, you are WAY-off base with these assertion that polo shirts are the "mullet" of shirts. When I first started at my present job over 3 years ago, I exclusively wore long-sleeved dress shirts with ties every day except for Fridays. The one day that I didn't wear a tie (Friday), I still wore a button down shirt, usually a short sleeved one. But eventually I got to the point of not wearing a tie much at all, even to the point of never wearing one. And instead of wearing hot long-sleeved dress shirts, I started wearing golf shirts or polo shirts. Now, I have so many golf/polo shirts with the company logo, it is not even funny. Golf/polo shirts are comfortable, look good with khakis, and can be used for casual and business wear, IMO. When a shirt is that versatile, you can't speak bad of it, B-Bob.
I hear you, but I really tried to find, say, a blue collar polo -- no luck. But why is that bad? I was just trying to show that the idea of "white trash polo" is ridiculous. All I was saying with this here thread is that the polo shirt is trying to do two things at once. I think we're all in agreement there. Manny, if I have to lose your respect over this one, so be it. Tough pill to swallow, but it's that important to me. Tell you guys what, if the "mullet" and "lesbian" options combined on the poll still have less than 25% of the vote come Monday, I promise to retrack my harsh judgment. I will write a glowing short essay on the virtues of the polo.
B-Bob you've stirred up a real hornets nest here, who would have known the passion of the polo shirt owner. Member's Only = Mullet or Mullitt depending on your region.
