After 14 years of Catholic school down south in Georgia, I vowed to never wear a polo shirt again. But after a few years of the new Lacoste campaigns, I bought my first petit piqué in a long time ...

including its iconic polo shirts. Rene Lacoste, the agile Frenchman known on the tennis courts as "le Crocodile," is widely credited with originating the cotton pique style now damn-near ...