# Polo shirt with a design only on the front?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polo-shirt-with-a-design-only-on-the-front/173639>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 7, 2003, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polo-shirt-with-a-design-only-on-the-front/173639 "2003-05-07T12:32:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polo-shirt-with-a-design-only-on-the-front/173639/1 "2003-05-07T12:32:15Z")

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Hopefully there’s a factual answer for this…

I saw this in JC Penney’s and was wondering about it. They had a Docker’s short-sleeve polo shirt that had a cross-striped pattern on the front, and a plain back. My question: is this a style thing, or is it meant to be worn under something? Actually, is there anything a polo shirt is appropriate to be worn under?

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**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2003, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polo-shirt-with-a-design-only-on-the-front/173639/2 "2003-05-07T13:16:29Z")

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I have a couple of shirts with horizontal stripes on the front but not the back. One is about 20 years old, I got the other last year for Christmas. So it appears it is a style that has been around for a while, it is just not a real popular style.