Official Michel Rouen catalogue

Michel Rouen golf polos, quarter zips and trousers, with the size run on the card

You are looking at two polos and the photographs will not tell you which one holds its collar, which one goes past XL, or what the number on the label protects. Every Michel Rouen card does: the knit, the colourways that cut is made in, the size run it is actually cut to, and the UPF figure where the label carries one. Short and long sleeve polos, quarter zips and mock necks, softshell vests, trousers by waist and leg, shorts, and the same collar for a boy.

Start with the shelf, not the colour

  • 23cuts in the rangeacross seven shelves
  • 8,134ratings behind themweighted across the catalogue
  • 266colourwaysphotographed as sold
  • 5years of making this collarMichel Rouen has been at it since 2021
A man on a fairway in a navy short sleeve polo and stone shorts, mid follow-through, the sea and a bunker behind him The collar · Men's Quick-Dry Polo Shirt, blue
$9.95 to $49.95a piece, at our last update
S to 5XLthe shirt size run
UPF 30+ to UPF 50+on the labels that carry one

01Seven shelves

Start from the Michel Rouen shelf the round needs, not the colour

Decide what the weather is doing to the top half first, then the legs, then the colour. The shelves below are cut in that order.

02What leaves first

Six Michel Rouen cuts that go in the bag first

The size run and the colourway count sit on every card, so you can rule one out before you open it.

03What we make

What Michel Rouen makes, and who it is cut for

Seven shelves of men's golf and everyday wear, built around one shirt and the things that go over and under it.

Two men beside a golf cart in long sleeve polos, one in a blue and orange striped print, one in a navy pattern, clubs stacked behind them

Everything on this site is arranged around one shirt: a knit polo that dries fast, holds its shape at the placket and comes out of a bag without an iron. Around it sits what a round asks for. The same knit run to the wrist for a cold start or an open sky. A quarter zip that comes off at the turn without dragging the collar with it. A softshell vest for the wind. Trousers ordered by waist and leg rather than by a letter, one flat-front short, and the same shirt cut small for a boy who has been brought along.

What we print on a card is the part a photograph cannot carry. The knit and the stretch in it. The colourways that cut is actually made in, which on the widest part of the polo shelf runs to twenty-seven. The size run, which goes to 5XL on part of that shelf and stops at 3XL on the rest. The pocket count on the vests and the shorts, and which pocket zips. The waist and the leg on every pair of trousers, because 34x30 and 34x34 are two different purchases. Where the label carries a UPF figure we print it and say what it describes. Where it does not, the line stays blank rather than being guessed at.

What "UPF 30+" means on a Michel Rouen card

That the dry, unstretched cloth lets less than one thirtieth of the sun's ultraviolet through, which the Skin Cancer Foundation calls very good protection. It covers the skin under the shirt, it drops when the cloth is wet or stretched tight, and it does nothing for the rest of you. The bodies we take that from are named on our updates page.

A man in a black polo with a blue and white chest stripe, a folded umbrella over one shoulder, plain studio background

04What you are looking at

A range that grew outward from one knit collar

Start with the shirt and work outward. A polyester knit polo that dries between the ninth and the car and comes out of a bag without a crease, in a stripe if you want to be seen and a jacquard if you do not. The same collar run to the wrist when the tee time is early or the sky is open. Over it, a quarter zip you can open on a tee and close walking, or a mock neck that sits flat if a vest is going on top. Then the vest itself, windproof and pocketed. Below the waist, trousers ordered by waist and leg rather than by a letter, and one flat-front short with somewhere safe for a car key.

The second thing to know is that the figure is printed and the piece is sold by it. The size run as that cut is actually made, which is 5XL on two of them and 3XL on the rest. The number of colourways, which on one print cut is twenty-seven and on a plain one is four. The pocket count with the zipped one named. Both numbers on a trouser, waist and leg. And a UPF figure only where the label carries one, described in the words the body that sets the scale uses rather than in ours. What you will not find anywhere here is a comfort rating, because what you feel at the fifth depends on the wind and on whether you are walking, and a number printed against a shirt would be a guess made on your behalf.

The longer answer to “what is this brand” lives on Read what Michel Rouen makes and who it is cut for.

05The second six

The long sleeve, the mock neck, the softshell vest and the winter trouser

The knit that covers an arm at eight in the morning, the layer that comes off at the turn without taking your collar with it, the vest that holds the wind off a exposed nine, the trouser lined for a wet January round, the short with somewhere safe for a car key, and the boys' polo in the same cloth as yours.

Michel Rouen Kids' Boys Golf Polo

Boys golf polo

Kids' Boys Golf Polo

  • UPF 30+
  • Sizes 6 to 14-16
  • Quick dry

4.7 · 247 ratings

from $19.56

06Straight to a piece

The Michel Rouen pieces people search for by name

The polos, the long sleeves, the quarter zips, the vests and the trousers first, and the rest are one click away, each page with its cuts, prices, colourways and size runs.

Michel Rouen Golf Polos

Type our name and this is usually the page you wanted. Eleven cuts of short sleeve collar sit here in a hundred and sixteen colourways: the stripes, the jacquard textures, the prints and the one with a chest pocket. They share a knit and they differ in exactly two things that matter before you order: how far the run goes past XL, and how loud the shirt is from six feet away.

Michel Rouen Long Sleeve Polos

Two different mornings send a man to a long sleeve, and this page holds both. One is cold: an eight o'clock start where a short sleeve is fine by the turn and miserable before it. The other is bright and open, and cloth over an arm does more than anything you can rub on it. Three cuts, thirty-two colourways, and part of the page is knitted to UPF 50+ rather than the 30+ that covers most of the site.

Michel Rouen Quarter Zips

A quarter zip is bought for one manoeuvre: you are warm walking and cold standing on a tee, and you want that fixed in four seconds without taking anything over your head. Four cuts sit here in thirty-two colourways. The zip drop is what separates them, and after that it is whether you want a collar underneath or a mock neck that sits flat under a vest.

Michel Rouen Golf Vests

Anyone who has tried to swing in a jacket knows the argument for a vest: the core stays warm, the shoulders stay out of it, and nothing gathers at the elbow at the top of the backswing. Five cuts sit here. The softshell is the serious one, with five pockets and a face that holds the wind off, and the quarter zip vests are thin enough to live in a bag from March to October.

Michel Rouen Golf Trousers

This is the only part of the site where you order by two numbers, and it is the reason men keep a pair of these rather than making do with what is in the wardrobe. Pick the waist you wear, then the leg: 30 sits at the shoe on most men under five foot nine, 32 is the common one, 34 breaks properly on anyone tall. Two cuts, one lined for January and one that goes to lunch without a change.

07Who decides what

The people at Michel Rouen, by what they settle for you

No faces and no names on this page, because a face would be a stock photograph and a name would be a story. Four jobs instead, each one something you can hold a card against.

Five men standing together on a fairway, three in sleeveless softshell vests over polos, two in polos alone
The knit and the stretch

The knit and the stretch

Settles what goes into the cloth and prints it. Polyester for the drying and the crease, spandex for the return at the shoulder. Neither figure is a comfort rating, and no card here will tell you what you will be warm in, because that depends on the wind and on whether you are walking or riding.

The collar and the placket

The collar and the placket

Decides how the collar is finished so that it still stands after a season of washing, and how far the placket runs. This is the part people notice on the fourth wear rather than the first, and it is the difference between a shirt that stays in a rotation and one that becomes a gardening shirt.

The runs and the charts

The runs and the charts

Cuts the run a card prints and keeps the chart on the buying page honest to it: letters on the shirts, to 5XL on part of the polo shelf, waist by leg on the trousers, age bands on the boys' shelf. A letter describes the shirt, and the chart is how you match it to a tape.

Letters and corrections

Letters and corrections

Reads what you write and fixes the page when you are right. A size run that stops short of what is actually made, a colourway that is not the colour in the photograph, a price the till disagrees with: the correction goes on the page, and the address is at the foot of every one of them.

08Before you click

Six things to settle before you trust a Michel Rouen size

The commonest mistake is ordering the letter from a shirt you bought six years ago. Take two measurements once, decide what is going underneath, and this catalogue turns into a filter.

Step 1

Chest, over the shirt you play in

Tape level under the arms and round the fullest part of the chest, over a T-shirt rather than bare. Every chart on the buying page starts from that figure, and it is the one that decides whether the shoulder seam sits where it should when you take the club back.

Step 2

Waist, where your trousers actually sit

Tape level round your natural waist, snug and not pulled tight. The trousers and the shorts here are ordered off this number, and on the trousers it is the first of two: the second is the leg, not your height.

Step 3

Leg, from a pair you already own

Lay a pair you like flat and measure from the crotch seam to the hem. Match that to the second number on the card. 30 breaks at the shoe on most men under five foot nine, 32 is the common one, 34 is for anyone tall.

Step 4

Decide what goes over the shirt

A polo that only ever gets worn on its own can sit close. If a quarter zip or a vest is going over it all winter, take the polo in the letter you normally take and the layer in the same one — these are cut to stack, and going up a size on the outer layer is what makes it hang badly.

Step 5

Read the run, not the picture

Part of the polo shelf goes to 5XL and the rest stops at 3XL. The card prints which. A model in a photograph is a man of unknown height in a size nobody has told you, and it is the least reliable thing on the page.

Step 6

Buy one before you buy four

A colour you love in the wrong letter is an exchange. Order one shirt in a cut you have not worn, play in it once, and then buy the colourways in the fit you now know. It costs one delivery and saves three returns.

09What the figures mean

Four figures on a Michel Rouen card, and what each one buys you

Every one of these is printed from our own product data. None of them is a promise about a body or an afternoon. Read them as descriptions of cloth, which is what they are.

UPF 30+ and UPF 50+

What fraction of ultraviolet the dry, unstretched cloth lets through. The Skin Cancer Foundation calls 30 to 49 very good protection and 50+ excellent, and 50 is the floor for their own seal. It covers the skin under the shirt and nothing else, and it drops when the cloth is soaked through or pulled tight across a shoulder.

The knit, and the spandex in it

Every shirt on this site is polyester with a small percentage of spandex. The polyester is why it comes out of a bag without a crease and dries between the ninth and the car; the spandex is why the shoulder comes back to shape after four hours of swinging. Under the labelling rules that spandex is listed even below five percent, because stretch is what it is there for.

Water-resistant

A face that sheds dew off the first fairway and a passing shower on the way to the cart. It is not a rain shell and nothing here is sold as one. Where a card says water-resistant, that is the size of the promise; where it says nothing, the piece makes none.

Three size systems

Shirts run on letters, S to 3XL and to 5XL on part of the polo shelf. Trousers run on waist by leg, 30x30 to 42x34, because that is how the pattern is cut. Shorts run on the waist alone, and the boys' shelf runs on age bands. A card prints the run its own piece is made in, never a blended one.

Every figure above is printed from our own product data. Where the people at Michel Rouen does not hold a number for a piece, the line on its card is blank rather than filled with an adjective.

10Journal

Three pieces on collars, cloth and the wash

Why one collar stands and another lies down by the fourth hole, what the number on a sun-rated shirt actually covers, and how to get four seasons out of a polyester knit.

A man on a fairway in a grey short sleeve polo and pink shorts, a club in one hand, the sea beyond the green behind him

The part you judge on the fourth wear · 8 min read

Why one golf polo collar stands up and another lies down by the fourth hole

A knit collar is a controlled crease, and every wear bends the same line of yarn in the same place. What actually fails, why heat rather than washing is the thing that finishes it, why the placket goes wavy before the collar does, and what you can check before you order and do at home afterwards.

A man standing on a bright fairway in a black striped polo and grey shorts, palm trees and open water behind him

A measurement, not a grade · 7 min read

What UPF 30 and UPF 50 actually mean on a golf shirt

The number on the label describes the cloth, not your afternoon. What it measures, what the two bands mean in the words of the body that sets them, the two everyday things that cut it, and where its usefulness stops.

A man on a green in a light blue pocket polo and cream shorts, hands at his sides, trees behind him

Easy to look after, easy to ruin · 7 min read

How to get four seasons out of a polyester golf shirt

A performance knit asks less of you than cotton and punishes one mistake harder. What heat does to the elastane, why a dryer is beside the point, what actually helps with smell, and the two stains a golf shirt really gets.

11Questions people send us

What buyers ask Michel Rouen before they order

Five of them. Longer answers live on the shelf pages and in Field Notes.

Where can you buy Michel Rouen polos and trousers?

Every buying button on this site opens the piece you were looking at, in the colourway and the size you chose, at our retail partner. That is where you pick the size, where the payment, the delivery and any exchange happen, and the price you see there is the price you pay.

If you would rather scroll the whole range in one place, the button at the foot of every page opens the catalogue rather than a single shirt.

How do you work out which Michel Rouen size to order?

Take your chest over the shirt you actually play in and hold it against the chart on the buying page, rather than trusting the letter you buy in cotton shirts. On the trousers you need a second number, the leg, and the fastest way to find yours is to measure a pair you already wear from the crotch seam to the hem. The size block further up this page walks through both.

Will a Michel Rouen shirt need ironing before you wear it?

No. Every shirt on this site is a polyester knit with a little spandex in it, and that combination comes out of a machine without a crease and out of a bag without one either. It is the practical reason men who travel with golf clothes end up in knits rather than woven shirts.

How far do Michel Rouen sizes go past the letter you wear?

The shirts run S to 3XL, and two cuts on the polo shelf keep going to 5XL. The trousers are ordered by waist and leg, 30 to 42 in the waist and 30, 32 or 34 in the leg. The shorts use the waist alone. The boys' shelf runs on age bands from 6 to 14-16. Each card prints the run its own piece is made in.

Can you trust the price on a Michel Rouen card?

They are what our catalogue held at its last update, and the date of that update is printed on our updates page rather than under every price, where it would turn into wallpaper. Prices move between updates. If the till disagrees with a card here, the till is right.

Prices on this page are the figures from our last update, and we refresh them on a schedule, which is the least glamorous part of care from Michel Rouen, and the figure at the till is the one that counts.

Every Michel Rouen cut, every size

Every size and colourway in the Michel Rouen selection sits behind this button, with the price from our last update against each one.