So yesterday, I was out with Mrs. B-Bob after work and we went into a Banana Republican. She wanted some sort of wrap type of thing for trips to the beach, which I don't understand, but anyway, I saw a cheap striped T-shirt that I wanted to try on. When I was in the dressing room, I heard a couple next door having an argument. As soon as put on the striped T-shirt, I heard this... Her: "Will you please just try it on?" Him: "No! It has stripes. It sucks." Her: "Would it kill you to own something other than polos?" Him: "You want me to look like I'm two years old?" Her: "Well, you're acting like you're two, so why not?" Him: "Look, I'm a man. We only like polo shirts." And I thought to myself, I don't own a polo and have not owned a polo in the last twenty years or so. Why not? Am I not a man? Then I thought, screw that, polos are the MULLETS of shirts. Let me explain. (note all the stink coming off the shirt) I don't mean that the polo shirt represents a certain socio-economic class, but I mean it wants to be two things at once. It wants to be a button down, but it wants to be a T-shirt. It was to be business up top and a party below. It wants to look more formal, but it looks like ass. I asked Mrs. B-Bob. She said "Well, I always associate polo shirts with lesbians. ... Especially starter lesbians, women who have just come out of the closet and want to broadcast." Wow. So that's my story. Please vote in the poll-o and share your thoughts.
Pardon the typos up there. Anyway, for the record, I wear button-ups, T-shirts, sweatshirts, moomoos, ... anything but polos.
Damn, I am getting crushed. Guess it's time for me to buck up and buy a polo shirt. Hopefully, I can get one with a little corporate logo on the pocket. Are there Clutch City polo shirts?
Can polo shirts have stripes? I have a lot of polo-type shirts, collared, with stripes or some other design. Made by tommy hilfiger and other companies. I hate the plain solid colored ones. I wear them for the mullet reason- I want to be able to wear them to work and also wear them with jeans or untucked if I want to just hang out. Hehe, I never though of them being like mullets, but it makes sense.
I don't own a single polo shirt, to the best of my knowledge, but I'd wear one, if the fate of the human race rested on my putting it on....probably...almost for sure.... Good, God, bu they're ugly, and that's on grandfathers...who, I believe,are the only ones not prevented by several by-laws from wearing the damn things in public. It is impossible for a young man to wear a polo shirt, and not look like one of the following: *A) He's golfing...and has no taste, or any other sense for that matter, most notably vision...... *B) He's been hit in the head, mugged, left for dead in a ravine, whereupon he awoke and found that the cruel muggers had left him with two options in the unlikely event that he recovered : a tutu, and a polo...and after trying on the tutu, the poor man finds out it's too small... *C) He's an accountant.
I always associate polo shirts with uniforms. A lot of service businesses make people wear polo shirts and khakis as their uniform, which I find kind of disingenuous. At least if they make you wear a shirt with a logo or nametag, other people understand that you have to wear that for work. But when you wear the polo/khaki combo, other people aren't sure if you're wearing it for work or if you just like to look dorky just for the hell of it. At Starbucks, I had to wear a polo/khaki uniform. After my first day on the job, I came home and was checking my mail at my apartment's mail area and some guy I'd never seen before walked by. He took one look at my un-uniform and said, "What restaurant do you work at?" I guess I should be glad he didn't assume I was a starter lesbian.
I love Polo shirts. Especially ones made by Ralph Lauren and Lacoste. You people have no fashion sense if you don't like the polo shirt and khaki shorts combo during the summer.
Ahhhh, what is this? I wear polos. Not all the time, but they are part of my wardrobe. I never think of them as formal wear, I always wear mine untucked with jeans. When I was an intern, I would occasionaly wear polos with khakis, usually Ralph and Lacoste as well. My regular polos are Ralph Lauren Chaps and Old Navy.
Polo shirts need to be tucked in to avoid the white trash look. In = business casual. Out = Springer guest. Also, polo shirts are okay if they are still in good shape. Too often you see polo shirts that have been washed too many times or have shrunken a size or two. No one wants to see a faded pink polo shirt trying to cover a bulging beer belly.
I don't have much of an opinion on polo shirts, but I would just to say this: B-Bob, you married a damn good woman.
Raven Lunatic, Thanks mucho. I'll pass along the good words. I'm a lucky b*stard for sure. But in other news, despite my crafty plan of splitting the opposition with a Nader/Perot type of option, the "mullet" vote is getting crushed here. Guess polo shirts aren't just for work anymore.
