Yeah I’m all for it.
With a tweed or cord jacket and dark jeans a polo neck does away with any Top Gear presenter association.
They also work really well with a peacoat and same jeans or cords.
Off white/cream colour I like. Navy or grey also good

Bump because I think it might appeal to TRS.

It's my default look. I think I look like Steve McQueen a la Bullitt but I'm not sure many would agree. I make sure not to wear Playboy chukkas to avoid the absolute blatant plagiarism. The first time I wore a polo neck I hear you ask? Well I can recall this precisely. Year - 1987. Location - Ivy Shop, 10 Hill Rise, Richmond, Surrey, TW10 6UA, tel 01-940-9378 (why have I remembered this nonsense?). The chaps were doing a stock clear out from their microscopic basement (only accessed by moving the desk with the till to one side). Ian threw up some charcoal grey John Smedley polo necks "you want one Lally?" No, said Little John, I only wear black polo necks (Lally had serious rules around clothes). So it ended up that me and Strachan got these beautiful polo necks on the house. I have worn them ever since, finding they work impeccably with the natural shoulder look, perhaps even more so that the rather boring and ubiquitous and unimaginative shetland crewneck.

Submariner sweater is good for winter weather even if a bit chunky for a tweed jacket.

This one is sound and good value especially when they have a sale :-
https://woolawayknitwear.co.uk/collections/mens/products/submariner-jumper-100-british-wool

Reminds me of a ex-naval officer/mature student who drove a Rover P4 and read the Daily Telegraph. The rum ration for ratings would have only recently been discontinued. Plymouth gin for officers though.

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I've started to wear polo neck jumpers again. I used to wear them in the 70s bought from the village gate in Oxford Street. They were usually in leary colours then, including a salmon pink one. Today I have a charcoal one and a black one.

AFS your daughter sounds cool.

Robbie- that salmon pink ( Shetland ? ) roll neck really had a lasting effect on you it seems , it’s been mentioned in several threads, haha,
Back in the mid ‘90’s I went on a corporate day out to Epsom or Goodwood races, mid summer, warm sunny day,
the guys who took me were given a strict dress code from the race track , it was suit, or blazer/dress trousers, shirt/tie or ‘ polo ‘,as we were in a corporate area, we were all asked to comply,
So like a few others of the group I wore a polo shirt, (Smedley), navy jacket, fawn trousers,loafers, the others wearing ‘ polos’ had Surgical appliance or Slazenger on them......so we roll up and we’re refused admission as some of us failed the dress code, it turned out their definition of polo was a polo neck sweater, ( in  July) !, after a lot of negotiating we were let in , lasting memory of that day was the attractive young lady in a white dress and little else, most of us stayed in the marquee and watched the races on the TV in between watching her go back and forward to the tote,

The salmon pink roll neck has left a lasting effect Stax. I used to wear it with a Harris Tweed jacket in a brown colour. Probably I looked good for the time but I couldn't see me wearing such a colour today although I like pink shirts.
Slazenger V necked jumpers had a good reputation in my area late 60s to early 70s. The burgundy one Sean Connery wore in the Bond film I would wear today. I used to play in Slazenger football boots before graduating to Puma.
Never worn any surgical appliances!