Even GQ staffers aren't immune to the quit luxury craze. But over the course of our reporting on the subject, we noticed something funny. Squint a little, and your stealth wealth icon du jour—an especially conniving member of the Roy family, perhaps, or Gwyneth Paltrow on trial in Park City—likely harbors a peculiar affinity for sweaters, the type of tonal, subdued knits you'd expect to see attached to a “Price upon request” label on Loro Piana's website. Even more confounding? The bulk of that interest revolves around knit polos, which were enjoying a resurgence long before Succession costume designer Michelle Matland dressed half the cast in them.
If you're reading this, we don't have to sell you on the knit polo's bona fides; for years, its slinky, bicep-hugging fit has endeared itself to megawatt A-listers with only slightly less zeros in their bank accounts. But until recently, renewed interest in the knit polo mostly catalyzed an array of brash patterns and wild colors—all good stuff, to be sure, just not exactly quiet.
Here's the thing, though: a knit polo doesn't need to shout to look amazing. In fact, the whispered confidence the right one provides—the sartorial equivalent of a smirking “if you have to ask, you can't afford it”—is exactly why the ultra-rich (or those who pretend to be them on TV) favor 'em. So to help you cosplay as a Roy this summer, we unearthed 15 stellar versions from true-blue stealth wealth mainstays like The Row to equally swanky options from slightly more affordable vendors. Kindly tell the internet it can move on now.
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