One garment, four colours, and every size from
M to 2XL held in each of
them. Pick the colour first, because the four are genuinely not
interchangeable: two carry contrast trim in a second colour and two are
tonal, and the flat measurements differ between them.
The size guide gives the numbers colour by colour.
Rflx makes one men's band collar polo shirt, the Reflection Polo, in four colourways and sizes M to 2XL
There is one garment on this site. The Reflection Polo: a short-sleeve shirt in a 240 GSM
cotton knit, with a ribbed band collar and a three-button placket, in
black, cream, heather grey and crimson, in M, L, XL and 2XL. That is the
entire catalogue, and it is a decision rather than a shortage.
Most menswear labels in Egypt run on volume. A drop lands every few weeks,
half of it sells, the rest goes to a discount rail, and the brand starts
again. That model needs your attention more than it needs your trust. We
would rather release one piece, hold every size of it in every colour, and
let the garment do the arguing.
Holding stock that way is expensive. Fifty units per colour per size means
capital sitting in a room in Cairo instead of moving. The return is that
the cream 2XL is there in October the same way it was there in August, and
the man who wears 2XL is not offered an L and an apology.
Black, from the side. The ribbed band collar and the three-button
placket, open or closed, and the line of the neck does not change.
A brand that only stocks M and L is not selling to men. It is selling to the
men who are easiest to sell to.
Awareness is the point. Rflx exists to teach men how
to dress for working life, and most of that is removing decisions rather
than adding them. A man who owns four of the right shirt is dressed in ninety
seconds and looks on Tuesday the way he looked on Monday, which is the thing
people actually register. A wardrobe that changes every week reads as anxiety,
not as style.
The next piece arrives when it is ready, not when a season starts. Until then
Men's polo shirts is the whole shelf, and it is
enough. Everything below is what the garment is, how it behaves across a day,
and what happens when you order it.
Read the garment
The collar is the reason this shirt works under a jacket
A polo collar has a fold and a stand. Under a lapel it either sits proud
and bunches, or it gives way and leaves a line across the back of the neck
by four in the afternoon. This one is a ribbed mandarin band. It stands on
its own, it has nothing to fold, and it holds the line at four that it held
at nine.
Open the placket and it reads as a soft neckline. Close it and it
reads as a collar. That is the whole distance between a shirt for the office
and a shirt for after it, and it is built into the pattern rather than
claimed in a paragraph.
01
The cloth
95% cotton with 5% Lycra, knitted at 240 grams per square metre. Put your
eye to the crimson and the face reads as a low, even texture, nearer a
pinhead than a fingerprint, with no depth and no sponge to it. The surface
is matte with no lustre, so nothing on it catches a flash, which is why it
photographs the way it looks in a room.
02
The yarn
Spun staple yarn, with a short fibre halo you can see if you hold the
garment up to a window. In Heather Grey the yarn is a melange, so the colour
arrives with depth instead of sitting flat, and it never quite matches a
solid grey next to it. That is what a melange is for.
03
The placket
Three buttons, and the placket stops high on the chest. The lowest one sits
above the sternum, which is where a shirt pulls when you sit down, so
nothing drags when you lean forward.
04
Cuffs and hem
Ribbed cuffs, so the sleeve stays where you push it instead of sliding back
down. Curved hem, long enough to stay tucked and short enough to wear out.
Most tees make you pick one of those two at the point of purchase.
05
The body
Dense and fully opaque. It hangs from the shoulder rather than clinging at
the waist, which is the difference between a shirt you wear into a meeting
and a shirt you wear into a gym. Nothing shows through it and nothing traces
what you did not want traced.
06
The monogram
An embroidered RR at the left chest, about the size of a thumbnail.
Embroidered rather than printed, so it does not sit on the surface as a
separate object. If you want a logo people can read across a room, this is
the wrong shirt.
Cut for the working day and for the hours after it, which are not the same brief
A dress shirt is drawn to be seen with a jacket. A plain tee is drawn to be seen
without one. Most men in Cairo need both in the same day, so they end up with a
wardrobe split down the middle: half of it useless after six, half of it useless
before.
09:00
Under a jacket, the placket closed. The band collar sits inside the lapel
and has no point to lift, so a bag strap over the shoulder does not turn
anything up or fold anything over. Here the shirt is doing the job of a
shirt and nothing more.
14:00
Jacket comes off after lunch. A dress shirt without its jacket reads as half
an outfit that lost the other half. This does not, because it was never
drawn to sit under anything. Sleeves end where they should, the hem is
finished as a hem, and nothing about it suggests a missing piece.
20:00
Dinner, a drive, or nothing at all. Unbutton the placket, leave the hem out,
and the same garment is doing a different job. Black stops being office
black and becomes simply black.
A piece that works twice in a day is cheaper than two pieces that each work once.
Four colours, chosen by how often you can wear them
Colour here is a decision about frequency. A colour you wear once a month is not
better than one you wear three times a week, and each of the four is stocked in
every size from M to 2XL. The codes sit under each name so you can hold them
against the photograph yourself instead of trusting a word like "charcoal".
Not an ink black. There is brown in it, which stops it shouting next to a
navy suit. This is the one you reach for on the days you have decided
nothing.
With a white collar and cuffs, so the contrast is inside the garment rather
than beside it. This is the one that reads as effort, and also the one that
shows a mark from three feet away.
Lilac trim and a melange yarn, so it does not go flat under office light the
way a solid grey does. It is the only one of the four whose look changes as
the light does.
The questions people ask before a first order from a store they do not know
How do I know which size to order?
Message us the size you take in a brand you already own and we will tell
you which of ours matches it. Two minutes in a chat is a better use of
everyone's time than a return and a second courier run. If you would
rather work it out yourself, the size guide
gives every size flat, in centimetres. Sizes are M, L, XL and 2XL, and all
four are stocked in all four colours.
When do I pay?
In Cairo and Giza, when the box is in your hand. Rflx is cash on delivery
only, so you are never handing card details to a store you have not bought
from before. Outside Cairo and Giza there is one extra step: a 50% deposit
on the order value, agreed with you on the phone call we make to confirm the
order, with the balance paid in cash to the courier at the door. Delivery is
85, 100 or 150 EGP depending on the governorate, and it is charged rather
than absorbed.
The shipping and delivery page sets out which
region sits in which band.
How does the deposit work?
We call you first. Once the order is placed, one of our team members contacts
you within 48 hours on the number you gave, to confirm what you ordered and
where it is going. If the address is outside Cairo and Giza, that is the call
where we give you the transfer details for the 50% deposit and agree the exact
amount with you. Those details are given to you on the call and are not
published on this site, so treat any transfer request that did not come from
that conversation as suspect. The balance is paid in cash to the courier when
the parcel arrives.
The shipping and delivery page sets out the rule
in full.
Where do you deliver?
All 27 governorates. Orders are dispatched from Cairo, and the delivery
charge is the only thing that changes from one governorate to the next.
There is no minimum order and no region we leave out.
What if my size sells out?
Then it is unavailable until it is not. There is no seasonal replacement
waiting to take its place, because there is no season. When the next piece
is ready it will be released, and until then this is what there is. That is
the other face of the one-piece decision, and we would rather say it here
than let you find it at checkout.
Do I order the size I usually wear?
It is a regular cut. Not slim, not oversized. It hangs from the shoulder
and does not cling at the waist. If you normally buy two sizes up to
get an oversized look, order your actual size here instead. If you sit
between two sizes, write to us before you order rather than after.
Why is there only one product?
Because one considered piece beats twenty rushed ones. Twenty designs a
season means nobody sat with any of them for long, and it usually means the
larger sizes are the first thing to go missing. We took the other road:
one piece in four colours, every size held in
every colour, and a second piece only when it earns the release.
Black
Tonal. White monogram.
Cream
White ribbed trim. Crimson monogram.
Heather Grey
Melange yarn. Lilac trim.
Crimson
Tonal. Ivory monogram.
