Michel Rouen Boys Golf Polos

A boy who has been brought along for nine holes in July needs the same two things his father does, and a smaller logo is not one of them. He needs cloth that dries between the ninth and the car, because he will have soaked the back of it by the third. And he needs something over his shoulders in open sun: covering skin is what the American Academy of Dermatology puts ahead of everything else, and a knit shirt does it without an argument at the front door.

The sizing runs by age band rather than by chest: 6, 8, 10-12 and 14-16. The banded sizes cover a wide spread of actual children, and the top of a band is where a shirt lasts two seasons rather than one. If he is at the bottom of 10-12 now, that is the size to buy. Twenty-one colourways, prices $19.56 to $27.95, and the knit is the same polyester and spandex as the adult polos, which in practice means it goes in the same wash and comes out ready.