THE CURATED LIFE
WIMBLEDON SPECIAL
IT IS hard to think of any item of sportswear as ubiquitous as the short-sleeve cotton piqué shirt with a placket and a small collar. Today, it slips, chameleon-like, between sporting disciplines with fluid ease. In the buggy and on the green, it is known as the golf shirt. Among the mallet-wielding, centaur-like sportsmen of Argentina—as well as those who shop at Ralph Lauren—it is known as the polo. And during what the British ironically refer to as “flaming June,” when first the Queen’s Club and then Wimbledon’s Centre Court become the focus of the nation’s attention, it is known as the tennis shirt.