POLO T-SHIRT FROM MID 1800s

 A polo t- shirt, tennis t-shirt, golf t-shirt or chukker t-shirt a form of shirt with a collar. Polo t-shirts are usually short sleeved but can be long; they were used by polo players originally in India in 1859 and in Great Britain during the 1920s.

Polo shirts are usually made of knitted cotton (rather than woven cloth), usually a pique knit, or less commonly an interlock knit (the latter used frequently, though not exclusively, with Pima cotton  polos), or using other fibers such as silk, wool, synthetic fibers or blends of natural and synthetic fibers.

Beginning in 1927, Lacoste placed a crocodile emblem on the left breast of his shirts, as the American press had begun to refer to him as "The Crocodile", a nickname which he embraced.