{"id":238325,"date":"2025-10-24T20:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/238325\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T20:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:06:14","slug":"from-our-eic-consider-the-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/238325\/","title":{"rendered":"From Our EIC: Consider the Rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you\u2019ve been reading these Friday emails for any length of time, you probably know that I don\u2019t pay a whole lot of attention to menswear trends. I don\u2019t particularly care about what\u2019s in or out or \u201cback\u201d or \u201chaving a moment,\u201d and in fact find such commentary somewhat embarrassing. I think men \u2014 especially men of a certain age \u2014 should strive for a certain amount of timelessness and hard-won personal style that is at odds with the inherently fickle nature of trendspotting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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So while I will refrain from making any grand statements like the ones above, I will say this: When I was a kid in the \u201990s, rugby shirts were everywhere. In my seventh grade school photo, I was wearing a red-and-navy striped one from L.L Bean that I remember being the heaviest article of clothing I\u2019d ever worn. In the years that followed, I don\u2019t know if I was too busy drowning in flannel and old-man cardigans because I thought I was Kurt Cobain or what, but the rugby shirt seemed to disappear.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, though? I can\u2019t go to a single retailer\u2019s website without seeing one, and it\u2019s a development I very much support. It should come as no great surprise that brands like Ralph Lauren and J.Crew are carrying them, I suppose, but it pleases me to see them also being made by cooler, more streetwear-adjacent brands like Corridor and Noah, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For my money, the rugby is among the most versatile shoulder-season items you\u2019ll find, perfect with a pair of shorts on a cool spring day or paired with some jeans and layered under a tweed blazer during fall. So yeah, I don\u2019t know if they\u2019re \u201cback\u201d or \u201chaving a moment\u201d or whatever, but they\u2019re certainly available, and I think you should get one.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Ralph<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tRalph Lauren The Iconic Rugby Shirt<\/a><\/p>\n

Uncle Ralph knows best, as always.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Corridor<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tCorridor Black LS Rugby<\/a><\/p>\n

For a style traditionally known for its brighter colors and bold stripes, I\u2019m into this characteristically subdued, slouchy option from Corridor.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"J.Crew<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tJ.Crew Rugby with Striped Placket<\/a><\/p>\n

Leave it to J.Crew to add a perfect preppy detail like a striped placket.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Noah<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tNoah Classic LS Rugby<\/a><\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t quite feel up to the bigger stripes more traditionally associated with the rugby\u2026<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Flint<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tFlint & Tinder Rugby Polo<\/a><\/p>\n

Or if you do\u2026<\/p>\n

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Mike Conklin is InsideHook’s Editor-in-Chief. His interests include but are not limited to records, guitars, shoes, beer, whiskey and watches. He previously served as Deputy Editor at Gear Patrol and Digital Director at Men’s Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nota bene: All products in this article are independently selected and vetted by InsideHook editors. If you buy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-238325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}