How the polo neck became cool again

Men of the world, take note – the polo neck is back. From Drake to Bond, there’s no cooler fashion statement, writes Troy Patterson.       

It was knit from gray lamb’s wool. It defined a gray area.

On a stark set, amid the playback of a plaintive address to an ex, the hip-hop star Drake danced to the beat of his own drum machine in the video for ‘‘Hotline Bling’’ while bundled in a roomy sweater with a collar that rose to touch his resolute jaw.