Let's talk polo shirts, Gen X. Do you still wear them? Did you ever wear them?
Growing up through the '80s and '90s, I think polo shirts made up the vast majority of my dad's wardrobe. When I look back at old photos of him, that's what he was usually wearing, and his shirts were often navy blue. As a kid, I thought that polos where just what guys wore as adults to look more "businessey."
Then I became an adult and frequently had to wear polo shirts as part of a work uniform, or because they were business-approved pieces of attire in the office, but I never quite felt comfortable in them.
To me, polos only look good on a certain kind of body frame, and I don't have it. Every time I wore one, they felt unflattering and drab, but I did it anyway...for a while -- until my mid-life crisis hit and I decided that I was no longer going to wear them. Unfortunately for me though, sometimes my current job still requires me to, and I feel like they are still seen as the "standard casual attire" choice for adult men, and now they're usually ill-fitting golf shirt cuts made out of itchy and clingy dri-fit, synthetic moisture-wicking performance material that I hate to have against my skin.
What say the rest of you though -- especially guys 45+? Do you like polo shirts? Do you still wear them willingly, or have they gone out of style and are they considered "old people" clothing items now?