Zanone Flexwool Long-Sleeve Knitted Polo Sand

A long-sleeve polo in sand, knitted rather than cut from fabric, with a knitted polo collar, a three-button placket with horn-look buttons and ribbed cuffs and hem. It gives you a collar without the formality of a shirt. A placket is the short buttoned opening below the collar, so you can wear the polo open or closed.

Flexwool is Zanone's merino yarn with stretch: 95% virgin wool and 5% polyamide, a nylon fibre that lets the knit spring back into shape. Merino is a fine wool that warms without itching; mulesing-free means the sheep were spared mulesing, a painful removal of skin around the tail.

It is true to size, so take your usual size. Zanone uses Italian sizes: 48 is about an M, 50 an L, 52 an XL. Sand is a warm, light neutral that goes with navy, brown, white and every shade of blue. The same model also comes in ebony.