Ralph Lauren Is Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Polo Shirt

“When you wear a Polo shirt you’re instantly engaged in a profound irony between being unique, but also—because so many others in the world wear it—belonging,” writes director Ken Burns in the foreword to celebrating the iconic shirt’s 50th anniversary. Indeed, it could be argued that it’s precisely that sense of duality that has made the famous style an icon of American fashion, mirroring the dichotomy of Americans’s simultaneous desire to stand out and to be ‘in’. Undeniably, the shirt has tapped into something intrinsically stylish, still as effortlessly chic today as it was when it first hit the market… Read Full Article