Polo Ralph Lauren Multicolor Sweater Collection Review: We Taped Both Sizes and Sorted the Listing's Contradictions

What we ordered and how we checked it

The Polo Ralph Lauren multicolor sweater collection (SKU 7705117792) is listed at $22.69, down from $24.94, in sizes S through XL and loose unisex styling built for spring and everyday wear. We ordered two sweaters in the same color code, one size M and one size L, so the fit comparison stayed clean and the only variable was the label.

Every parcel is photographed before we open it, and this one went on the kitchen scale first. We then taped the chest, body length, sleeve and hem flat against the listing, opened and closed the neck zip a dozen times on each sample, checked the pocket zip, inspected the ribbing and shoulder seams, wore each size over a T-shirt for three weeks, and re-taped after a cold wash.

The listing argues with itself

The description opens with graphic motifs — a Polo Bear, a polo player silhouette, varsity-style lettering — and a printed front. The spec sheet underneath reads differently. Its pattern field says solid, its color list runs from code 298 to code 397 in white, grey, navy and black, and it asks you to treat each code as its own variant. Those two halves of the same page cannot both be right.

Our two samples arrived in a single solid colorway, a mid-weight cotton knit with no print panel anywhere. Which version you receive appears to be decided by the color code you pick, not by the product name.

Two smaller inconsistencies are worth knowing about. The neck field reads "no collar" while the neckline field reads crew neck, and the closure field says front zipper while the item type says pullover. On our samples the resolution was obvious: a short zip placket at the crew neckline, not a full-length front zip. The garment is otherwise simple — plain knit body, ribbed hem and cuffs, and one zipped pocket.

Internal conflicts we logged

• Description: printed graphic motifs. Spec sheet: solid pattern, print craft listed, no graphic named.
• Description: front zipper closure. Item type: pullover. Our samples: short neck zip only.
• Neck fields: "no collar" and "crew neck" on the same page.

Fit: what the tape said

The listing publishes no flat measurements at all, only a 1–2 cm tolerance. That left the tape as the only real source of numbers, so here is what our two samples measured flat, in centimetres.

Label	Chest (flat)	Body length	Sleeve from shoulder	Hem (flat)
M	55	67	59	51
L	58	69	61	53

That is roughly a 3 cm step between sizes, which is tighter than plenty of European knitwear grading, so the difference between M and L is real but modest. The cut is loose and boxy, unisex in practice, and both sizes layered over a T-shirt without pulling at the armhole. Neither sample stretched out of shape over three weeks of wear, and the cold wash did not change any of the four measurements by more than a centimetre.

What our samples cannot tell you is whether the next color code fits the same way. Buyers of Polo Ralph Lauren knitwear repeatedly report the same labeled size behaving differently from one style to the next, and some shoppers who normally take a large in RL tops deliberately size down in sweaters because RL knits can run bigger and stretch with wear. That is a brand-level pattern, not a measurement of this listing — which is precisely why the missing size chart matters here.

Weight, fabric and the 400 g question

The fabric field names cotton as the main material, calls the thickness regular, and tags the knit at 400 g and above. We treat that number as unconfirmed. It is not clear from the listing whether it describes fabric weight per square metre or the finished garment, and no home test can settle it without cutting a swatch and weighing it properly.

For what it is worth, our size L sample weighed 486 g on the kitchen scale once out of its mailer, and the whole parcel logged 0.53 kg. That reads as a mid-to-heavy cotton knit rather than a thin summer pullover, consistent with the regular-thickness note and with the hand feel. It does not prove the 400 g claim in either reading, and we would not repeat the number as fact.

Hardware, seams and value

The hardware was the pleasant surprise. Both neck zips ran smoothly, parked without slipping, and the zip pocket on each sample was set straight with no puckering at the tape. Stitch density at the shoulder and hem was even, and we found no loose threads or skipped stitching on either garment at this price.

At $22.69 in stock, the arithmetic is straightforward. A loose cotton crewneck with a working zip placket and a zip pocket, in a colour you can actually choose from a long code list, is fair value regardless of whose logo is on it. The risk is not the price — it is ordering blind on fit and hoping the code you picked looks like the photograph you liked.

What we could not confirm

We cannot tell you what the other roughly hundred color codes look like in hand, and we will not describe prints we never received. We also cannot confirm that the graphic motifs in the image set ship with the code you select. Treat the print description as an open question and the solid-color codes as the established version.