{"id":65896,"date":"2025-08-13T20:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/65896\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T20:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:11:08","slug":"ralph-laurens-rugby-shirt-the-rugby-shirt-all-others-aspire-to-is-40-off-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/65896\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Lauren’s Rugby Shirt\u2014the Rugby Shirt All Others Aspire To\u2014Is 40% Off Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking for a different rugby shirt? Check our guide to the best of ’em<\/a> on the market.<\/p>\n

If I was a betting man, I\u2019d say you\u2019re probably looking for a shirt. Not just any shirt, though. It\u2019s the dog days of August, and you\u2019re suffering from button-up boredom<\/a>, tee tedium<\/a>, and a host of other closet afflictions that makes the journey to finding said shirt a little more complicated than usual. You want a shirt that\u2019s comfortable and classic, that looks equally at home on the quad as it does on a quad bike, and you want to be able to wear it park hangs and park hikes<\/a>, if you\u2019re feeling squirrely. If this is you\u2014and to be clear, this is you\u2014the shirt you\u2019re looking for is actually a rugby, and it\u2019s likely on sale at this very moment.<\/p>\n

For instance, Ralph Lauren\u2019s version, the rugby shirt all rugby shirts aspire to, is currently 40% off each of the five colors it’s available in, which is fitting, given that\u2019ll make any outfit look roughly 40% more thoughtful via its inclusion. A navy-blue riff from Lacoste is under $80 and might be easier to wear than a plain-Jane white tee; J.Crew\u2019s solid-colored spin is calling your name for under $100.<\/p>\n

Ralph Lauren<\/p>\n

The Iconic Rugby Shirt<\/p>\n

Lacoste<\/p>\n

Colorblock Rugby Polo<\/p>\n

Abercrombie & Fitch<\/p>\n

Long-Sleeve Rugby Polo<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s rewind for a second, though. There\u2019s a reason the shirt you should be looking for right now is a rugby, and if you\u2019re unfamiliar with the style\u2019s rugged pedigree, a little context goes a long way. We\u2019re talking about a shirt designed for American football\u2019s enormously popular European antecedent, a silhouette that lands somewhere between a polo, a button-up, and a popover, thanks to its contrast collar, abbreviated placket, and striped and\/or color-blocked pattern. But unlike any of those three shirts, rugby shirts are typically cut from heavier-weight jersey-knit cotton, which allows them to go places button-ups are a bit loathe to, and assimilate in places that lesser polos simply can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Take Abercrombie\u2019s slightly cropped, slightly boxy version, which is comfortable enough to wear while napping on the couch but wouldn\u2019t look a lick out of place on the trails, in the office, or on its way to class. Or William Ellery\u2019s spin on the standard, which is made using one of the beefiest jersey-knit cottons I\u2019ve ever encountered, all-but-guaranteeing its owner a lifetime of reckless wear.<\/p>\n

Patagonia<\/p>\n

Recycled Wool-Blend Rugby Sweater<\/p>\n

Still skeptical about the rugby\u2019s outdoor dexterity? Consider that a) people wore them to play one of the most brutal full-contact sports on the planet and didn\u2019t seem hindered in the slightest, and b) they were a favorite among Yosemite Valley climbers<\/a>\u2014Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard among them\u2014who would wear them while scaling 3,000-foot walls of literal rock. I don\u2019t know what your plans are for the rest of summer, but it\u2019s hard to imagine any activity more rigorous than World Cup scrum or an assault on El Cap.<\/p>\n

Given that durability, vintage rugby shirts abound on eBay. But if you don\u2019t feel like dealing with sizing discrepancies or weird splotches, you could grab a faithfully-reproduced version from The Real McCoys, or hightail it to American Trench, which makes its Horizon rugby shirt in Canada, and might be the best bang-for-your-buck option around. If the sheer amount of options here raises more questions than it answers (or your AC is on the fritz and the heat makes it hard to think), take a page out of this guy\u2019s playbook<\/a> and buy one for every day of the week.<\/p>\n

The Real McCoy’s<\/p>\n

Climbers Rugby Shirt<\/p>\n

18 East<\/p>\n

For Camp Billings Pinewold Rugby Shirt<\/p>\n

William Ellery<\/p>\n

Claystone Weekender Shirt<\/p>\n

American Trench<\/p>\n

Horizon Rugby Shirt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking for a different rugby shirt? Check our guide to the best of ’em on the market. If…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[22819,27675,64,63,52371,52370,22821,52369,49747,760,52368,7240,85,20116,1672],"class_list":{"0":"post-65896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-_commerce","9":"tag-_exclude-reg-gate","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-casual-shirts","13":"tag-gq-recommends","14":"tag-onecolumn","15":"tag-polo","16":"tag-ralph-lauren","17":"tag-rugby","18":"tag-sales-style","19":"tag-shopping","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-textbelowcentergridwidth","22":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65896","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=65896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}