Alongside khaki chinos, penny loafers, and navy club blazers, the Oxford shirt was a foundational piece of American Ivy style in the mid-twentieth century. Brooks Brothers invented it in 1900, taking ...

but the button-down collar shirt actually traces its history to the sport of polo. As the story goes, in 1896, John Brooks, ...

Brooks Brothers reinvented ... reintroduced their Polo Button-Down Oxford, an icon of menswear if there ever was one. First introduced in 1896, it basically invented the shirt style we now know ...