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A rugby shirt is a shirt worn in the game of rugby, usually with long sleeves. Rugby shirts have a buttoned opening at the top, in a similar style to polo shirts but with a stiffer collar than a polo shirt. A traditional design consists of five or six horizontal stripes, or hoops, in alternating colours, a pattern a number of football teams have adopted, such as Queens Park Rangers and Parma A.C. The shirts differ between the two codes of the game: rugby league shirts commonly have a large V around the neck, while rugby union jerseys keep a more traditional design. The rugby shirt has in numerous cultures been a popular fashion item.
Rugby shirts have a buttoned opening at the top, in a similar style to polo shirts with but with a stiffer collar than a polo shirt. A traditional design of Rugby Shirts consists of five or six horizontal stripes or 'hoops' in alternating colors. A number of football teams have adopted this pattern, such as Queens Park Rangers and Parma A.C..
The rugby jerseys are slightly different depending on the type of rugby game played. The shirts worn by rugby league footballers commonly have a large "V" around the neck. The players in rugby union wear jerseys with a more traditional design, sometimes completely white (Cahors Rugby in France).
The rugby shirt has in numerous cultures been a popular fashion item.
What is rugby? Rugby football is a collective name for the team sports of rugby league and rugby union, as well as the earlier forms of football from which both games evolved.
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Every detail of the classic rugby shirt is a response to being grabbed. The jersey is a heavy cotton knit, far thicker than a polo shirt, because it is hauled on in tackles and scrums; seams are reinforced and the fabric is expected to stretch rather than tear and to survive being pulled by the collarful. The collar itself is a stiff woven band rather than a soft knit, standing up to repeated grabbing, and the placket fastens with rubber buttons, a traditional detail with a practical reason: hard buttons would injure faces in contact, while rubber buttons flex and give. Long sleeves cover the arms through a winter season played outdoors, and the hooped pattern in club colours, bands running continuously around body and arms, lets players and spectators pick out sides at speed and distance in a game with no numbers tradition as strong as other sports.
Those qualities carried the shirt off the field. A heavy, colourful, hard-wearing casual shirt with a collar reads as dressed without being formal, and the rugby shirt became a standard fashion item in numerous cultures, sold in club, university and invented colour combinations far from any fixture list. Fashion versions soften the cloth slightly and tidy the fit but keep the hoops, the stiff white collar and the placket that define the look. Care is heavyweight knit care: wash inside out to protect the stripes, dry flat or on the line rather than stretching the wet weight on a hanger, and expect a good cotton jersey to soften over seasons without losing its shape. Sizing follows chest measure with a playing fit, easy through the body for movement, and a fashion fit cut closer from the same pattern.
Both have a collar and a buttoned placket, but a rugby shirt usually has long sleeves and a stiffer, stronger collar than a polo shirt, and it is made of heavier cotton jersey built to survive a contact sport. The polo shirt is a lighter, short-sleeved garment from tennis and golf.
Hoops are the traditional horizontal stripes of the rugby shirt, five or six broad bands in alternating club colours running around the body and sleeves. The pattern identifies the team at a distance and has been adopted by football teams such as Queens Park Rangers and Parma A.C.
Shirts worn by rugby league players commonly have a large V around the neck, while rugby union jerseys keep a more traditional design, sometimes completely plain, as with the all-white shirts of Cahors Rugby in France. Both are called rugby shirts or jerseys.