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René Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman, created the polo shirt (died 1996)
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René Lacoste
French and Jamaican tennis player (1904–1996)
Jean René Lacoste was a French tennis player and businessman. He was nicknamed "the Crocodile" because of how he dealt with his opponents; he is also known worldwide as the creator of the Lacoste tennis shirt, which he introduced in 1929, and eventually founded the brand and its…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Polo shirt
Type of shirt
A polo shirt, tennis shirt, golf shirt, or chukker shirt is a form of shirt with a collar. Polo shirts are usually short sleeved but can be long; they were used by polo players originally in British India in 1859 and in Great Britain during the 1920s.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)