Ralph Lauren Outfits Team USA With the Ultimate Tourist Polo for the 2016 Olympics

A tribute to the beauty of Ipanema Beach.

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Ralph Lauren’s official outfits for Team USA’s Olympic squad are all loving tributes to classic American prep style, but the brand’s latest steps away from the Ivy League. Team USA’s Featherweight Polo is meant to outfit athletes during their downtime and it reflects a nostalgic sense of tourism: the polo pays homage to the host city of Rio de Janeiro’s Ipanema Beach with a graphic that features sunbathers reveling on the shores next to a perfectly blue sea.

You can pre-order the polo from Ralph Lauren now.

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