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When I mentioned “polo elitist”, I’m referring to those who look down on people who wear/know only little or big horse polo, or re-retro collectors. Or people with limited collections/access/means ( I personally struck out on snow beach pullover, and settled for the CP 93 windbreakers). Collectors who judge the uninformed or misguided. When I see someone pieces together different collections, I may feel it doesn’t make sense, but that’s maybe all they have access too so ........... who are we to judge. Not everyone wants to go to The POLO Olympics in New York to stand in the middle of times Square in dingy/wrinkled 30 year old pieces trying to coordinate. Like 40% of “polo collectors” mash whatever they have together and don’t care about coordinating pieces. I see people mixing and matching different collections I feel don’t go together especially when they’re at opposite ends of the spectrum ( no coordination). But, I have also seen it work a few bear ve seen Ralph do it on the cat walk and on his website (Example: last year he had a guy in dress clothes and the 92 stadium jacket with the fur hood.
Also we have people at different stages of collecting, some people only collect polo three button and T-shirts. Some people like certain lines and only buy those pieces so they would inadvertently be coordinated.
I work with a guy who only has horse and bear polo and thinks he’s doing it his whole collection is casualwear lo. Sum people prefer only the horse and feel like the graphics that we wear our childish (suicide ski, climber graphics, biker graphics) and phrases too ( climb, track, kayak). And I know guys who feel like the horse is feminine.
I will admit I purchase retro/rerelease pieces, if I can find a classic piece DS, I will cop but I don’t want a sweater/jacket that’s on sum fat *** wore for 10 winters with stains and dingy cuffs.
On a small scale is like Jordan’s if you see somebody in team Jordans/fusions we may judge, But they may have preferred the air Jordan 11 Concords, but didn’t have access/means, and had to settle for the fusion Jordan 11/13‘s.
Word. And to keep it a buck, I've worn more Tommy than Polo when I was younger. I was inspired to get into Polo by a friend of mine who is a legitimate Polo aficionado. And i dig it and cop here and there but the worship of Ralph and all things Polo is kind of nauseating. Wearing Ralph head to toe, treating the man like Jesus himself. The only thing more disturbing than that are the over the hill mutha****as who act bougie if your **** didn't come out in 92. Middle aged people of color acting like buffoons over something some White Jewish man created decades ago for preppy White people. A sport most of y'all don't care for. A bunch of teddy bears like a teenage girl with braces would cry for. And the coup de grace, Polo Assassin is the official Polo sport sponsor. Again, Polo is dope but it's not my religion. I like to buy what I like and stay away from middle aged Polo gatherings in Brooklyn and Manhattan.