Michel Rouen Men's Quick-Dry Striped Polo, red

The cheapest way into this collar, and in eleven plain colours rather than a pattern. The stripe on this one is a narrow band across the chest on a solid body, so it works where a loud shirt would not: a club with a dress code, a Friday in an office that has given up on ties. Three buttons, side vents at the hem, and a collar cut not to curl.

What you are giving up against the shirts further up the shelf is size range, because this cut stops at 3XL, and the colourways are solid rather than two-tone. What you are not giving up is the fabric: the same quick-dry polyester with spandex, four-way stretch, UPF 30+ on the label. At under fifteen dollars in most colourways it is the one people buy three of once they know the letter.

One of 10 on the polo shirts rail in the Michel Rouen range. It also answers to golf polos, striped polos, upf golf shirts. A size letter describes the garment rather than your body, so measure your chest once and hold the figure against the chart on the buying page. The UPF figure describes dry, unstretched cloth, and you lose part of it when the shirt is soaked through or pulled tight. If you find a figure here that disagrees with the piece in your hands, tell us: how we keep them current is set out on how we update the catalogue.