STAR PLAYERS Thanks to plush fabrics and unexpected design details like offbeat embroidery, rejigged rugby shirts are the new wardrobe heroes. Ross, on unfamiliar turf with the game, winds up black-eyed, broken and slumped on the Central Perk sofa. He gets to wear a yellow-and-navy rugby jersey that renders him passably sexy even when it’s torn and splattered with mud. A lack of intimacy with the rough-and-tumble game hasn’t stopped them from casually sporting rugby shirts over the decades. And all that time—in fact, ever since the mid-to-late 1800s—its template has barely evolved: heavy cotton base, contrasting white collar, rubber buttons, horizontal stripes.

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Persons: Errata Carmona, ” Ross Geller, David Schwimmer, Ross, hasn’t Locations: British