The polo shirt is one of those pieces that looks effortless when it’s right and slightly tragic when it isn’t. Fabric is everything here. A cheap piqué goes thin and bobbled after three washes and the collar loses its nerve almost immediately. Blue is the colour we’d start with because it works harder than navy in warmer months and sits better against more skin tones than white. The problem is that a lot of men spend either too little and end up disappointed, or too much when they don’t need to. There is a middle ground and it is genuinely well populated if you know where to look. We’ve been through a lot of blues, a lot of collar constructions, and a lot of fabric weights to find the ones that look considered rather than convenient. These are the blue polos that don’t ask you to compromise on quality to protect your wallet. That trade-off is not one you need to make.