Rugby collar; seven-button front; gorgeous rib knit cuffs. Machine wash cold. Wash inside out. Do not tumble dry. Do not iron buttons.

These run true to size (men sizes).

According to legend, the game of rugby originated at Rugby School in Warwickshire, England during a football match in 1823, when one of the players caught the ball and simply ran with it in his arms to the opposing goal. Thomas Arnold, the school’s then-headmaster, noted the young man’s “fine disregard for the rules”, and a new sport was born. Arnold subsequently organized two competing sides: “School House” (for the boarders) and “Town” (for the day students); the School House’s shirt, thought to be the world’s first rugby jersey, featured an embroidered skull-and-bones motif - perhaps in reference to the more violent nature of the school’s particular brand of football.