“When I think of the polo shirt,” says GQ senior commerce editor ... a relative steal for a bona fide piece of menswear history, but, we imagine, a smidge more than when it debuted.

It stands to reason, then, that their iteration of the knitted polo is a workhorse. You could comfortably sub it in for any button-down shirt in your regular rotation and it’ll hold its own.

Once reserved for golfers and preppy college kids, the polo shirt has transformed into the perfect elevated basic in a man's wardrobe. An upgrade on the standard jeans-and-a-tee outfit ...