I know that at Polo.com there is a thread that allows customers to customize their product to some degree. I know this is a long shot, like a message in a bottle, but here goes. I would like to inquire about a specific design option that has not been available for sale for a long time either online or at the stores in the mails. It is a standard design that I saw in the 1980's on a regular basis, but has since vanished. It is the one half inch stripe that alternates horizontally with white stripes that are also one half inch thick. Now every color combination with this pattern is available on a regular basis except one:

Where is the yellow and white striped Ralph Lauren Polo shirt?

If they are still made, they must be as rare as a seven leaf clover! What is the deal here? Has this color combination been copywrited by another company somehow? Now I need to get a little bit more specific here. This has to do with the fact that Iam not just the average guy that likes to wear Polo shirts. I appreciate them like a Swiss watch. Very intricate and meticulous are those stripes on the standard Ralph Lauren Polo shirt. It is the number of stripes. The thickness of the stripes. The proximity of one stripe to another stripe. An endléss combination of color variance! What Iam really talking about here is the relationship between marketing, advertising, and psychology, as it pertains to how we process visual information on the cognitive level. This falls under the général branch of industrial psychology. Now I have to assume that Polo Ralph Lauren employs these psychologists to assist the désigners. Because all of these suttle différences with these stripes can mean the difference between a sale and no sale. Here is an exaple of one of one of these variations: In 1990, I saw a very spécial édition of Polo shirts that were the first to have that fancy combed Cotton texture like the Polo 93 versions that came out like two years ago. And there was something new and innovative about the stripes. Until this time every stripe on every kind of shirt always began and ended on a seam. That is the thick stitching that holds together each part of the shirt. This particular stripe began on a seam, but it suddenly ended somewhere in the middle of the shirt. This tickled my Fancy, so to speak, and I was more than willing to spend $90.00 on it. If you ajust for inflation to 2020, that is alot of money. Every year since 1984, I have that annual pilgrimage to the mall to shop for the spring and summer lines that come out around March. And the décision to buy or not is made the instant I lay eyes on it. And back in the 1980's there was this pleasant odor from cologne that always seemed to make my excursion seem more satisfying. There have been many different styles of the Polo shirt from Ralph Lauren over the decades, but the sélection does not seem to be as much today as it was in the 1980's. I would love to talk more about them, but I will need photographs of them. Here is an idea: Let's create a photographic data base of every single solitary Polo shirt ever produced and sold, year by year since they first arrived in the 1970's. Now these are the standard Polo's. The collar, three buttons, and with short sleeves. I know there is alot more types of clothing that Ralph Lauren offers today that were not available in the 1980's. I don't know if the 1980's was the most profitable decade for the company, but it was certainly the first decade when they were popular. Every time you turned around, two out of every third person was wearing one of them! Even the girls were wearing them, just like the guys were. The only difference was the girls had those add-a-beed necklaces tucked underneath the collars. Polo Ralph Lauren has been around for a very long time! And each génération wore these Polo shirts for different reasons. In my era, there was a conservative youth movement, but today it's much different for young people. But somehow these s
Let me talk to you about how I discovered these shirts. The 1980's were alot different from the 1970's. And one big difference was fashion. There was a shift from polyester to cotton. The first shopping mall opened up here in 1980. And when I walked inside for the first time I was wearing very dull and generic polyester clothing. But when I saw that myriad of all the bright primary colors like pink, yellow, green, blue, and white in cotton form. (This experience felt like that song from Simon and Garfunkle about the 35mm caméra with that color film) I knew like alot of other people that the era of polyester clothing was coming to an end! The winds of change were blowing, and in those shopping malls those winds were blowing as well, with hurricane force! Sad to see the era of the shopping mall coming to an end as well.