Pique Polos
You buy a pique polo for the cloth and not for the shape. Pique is a cotton knit with a small, raised grid across its face, and that grid is what makes a polo read as texture rather than as flat colour. Everything else worth saying about this page follows from that one detail of the knit.
Pique Polos
Textured Cotton Knit for Warm Weather Polos
A pique polo sits differently on a warm day and the knit is the reason. The face of the cloth is broken up into a small grid, so the surface has some relief to it and the shirt does not read as a flat panel of colour. None of that is fashion. It is what the knit does, and it does the same thing in black as it does in olive.
Marle, Grit and Flat Colour in Pique
Marle, grit and fleck all read clearly on a raised face, which is why so much of the colour on this page is a yarn with a second shade in it. Black and optic are here for the days that want nothing said at all. The rest run olive, charcoal, tan brown and a couple of blues, most of them marled. For the sportier reading of the same shirt, vintage athletic polos takes it into applique and stripe, and all polos is where every knit sits together. Put one on for a Saturday lunch outside, over shorts, with the sleeves left alone, and the shirt is the last thing anyone has to think about.