Michel Rouen Men's Quick-Dry Striped Polo, black stripe

Twenty-one colourways of one shirt, and the widest size run we cut: this is the striped polo that goes to 5XL when most of the shelf stops at 3XL. The stripe sits across the chest in two tones rather than running the whole body, so from a cart path it reads as a block of colour with a line through it and from two feet it is a stripe. The collar is finished not to curl, which is the part you notice on the fourth wear rather than the first.

It is the shirt more people here have bought than any other, and the reason is mostly the fabric doing its job quietly: polyester with spandex, four-way stretch, and a UPF 30+ on the label. Take your usual letter. If you are between two and the shirt is going under a quarter zip all autumn, take the smaller one, because this cut is not generous through the body.

One of 10 on the polo shirts rail in the Michel Rouen selection. It also answers to golf polos, striped polos, big and tall polos. A size letter describes the garment rather than your body, so measure your chest once and hold the figure against the chart on the buying page. The UPF figure describes dry, unstretched cloth, and you lose part of it when the shirt is soaked through or pulled tight. If you find a figure here that disagrees with the piece in your hands, tell us: how we keep them current is set out on how we update the catalogue.