French rugby team unveil eye-popping shirt
Stade Francais’s new strip features Warholesque images of Blanche de Castille, aka the wife of Louis VIII, not to mention - surely even worse - mock-denim sleeves. Whilst we applaud the maverick French for daring to be different, this is surely a step too far.
It’s not the first time Stade [...]
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Welcome back, Boris
We’ve been too frightened to go on about it, just in case we dissolved in tears, but Boris Becker has been seriously letting himself down - fashion-wise. Always so suave, he’d taken to dressing down to impress his gorgeous young girlfriend, Sandy Meyer-Wolden, leaving the house in zany psychedelic shirts, ridiculous trainers, stupid [...]
America, Europe
The Americans went for the classic golf diamond for the opening day at Valhalla, only leaving a slight smudge on the brain with the inclusion of baseball caps. But the lads from Europe have got it all wrong, having obviously allowed their team of stylists to plunder through a holiday rep’s wardrobe in search [...]
Say “word up” to Mr Golf…
Some of you might know him as Dre, some as Andre 3000, but to Polite Applause, he will always be Mr Benjamin - the inspiration behind the most golf fashion range since the olden days, Benjamin Bixby.
The collection was unveiled just yesterday in the Harrods Laduree Tea Room, champagne and [...]
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Unforgettable FAILS from golf’s biggest team event
1. Brookline, 1999
What could be better than a golf shirt featuring a photo collage of previous great US Ryder Cup teams & players? Almost anything. Still, the jingoistic shirts seemed to work - the US won the Cup back, with victory by a solitary point.
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Meet the man who IS golf
Some people say Tiger Woods is golf. They’re wrong. Samuel L Jackson is golf. Who else but Sam could make an outfit like this work? Imagine Lee Westwood wearing it, for example, and you quickly realise that most pro golfers are NOT golf. It takes a typecast actor to be [...]