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Prep class: welcome to polo shirt summer
Embraced by mods, jocks and middle-aged dads, the polo shirt has proved immune to changes in fashion
Polos can all get a bit country club or the jerk archetype from each season of The White Lotus: Jake Lacy, Theo James, Patrick Schwarzenegger – a cursed blend of entitled preppy and quiet luxury. Things may have moved on, but in Sally Rooney’s latest Dublin-set novel Intermezzo, a character – while he doesn’t fit this exact type – is described unflatteringly as “wearing a polo shirt with an embroidered brand logo on the front, and a pair of plastic flip-flops for some reason”. The indie film Reality, in which Sydney Sweeney plays a US intelligence worker who falls foul of the security-industrial complex, features quietly menacing FBI agents in beige slacks and tucked-in polo shirts.
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