Gap and Malbon Conspired to Spark a Riot at the Country Club

Too many tee boxes are a parade of performance polos and four-way-stretch slacks, but the soon-to-drop Gap x Malbon collection should fix that. Combining the cheeky sensibilities of the world’s hottest golf brand with the accessibility of the legendary mall staple, the collaboration delivers a 31-piece assortment that will crush on the course and the corner bar. As if this collab needed another ace in the hole, it’s been co-signed by Jesper Parnevik, one of the best-dressed golfers in PGA history.

“Golf has become a very broad kind of fashion statement more recently, and I think that’s why Malbon and Gap is, like, the perfect collab,” said Parnevik, a former world top-10 golfer who dominated the links from beneath his signature flipped-up cap brim. “The combo now is perfect, between the country club fashion and things you can wear off the course as well.”

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He isn’t wrong. The knit polo, for instance, looks like it should cost at least $200 and will hit hard with high-waisted trousers. The zip polo—which flips the GAP logo into one that reads PAR—evokes the glory of the block striped during its ’90s heyday, and pairs as nicely with washed jeans as it will FootJoy spikes. Same goes for the cable-knit vest and the vintage-tinged quarter-zip.

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The Gap x Malbon capsule has your bottom half covered, too. A subtly-striped, double-pleated pair of pants is a sneaky contender for Pants of the Summer: Mall Brand Category. You can find the same chambray-adjacent fabric on some big ol’ double-pleat shorts and a zip vest, both of which Parnevik rocks to devastating effect in the collection’s campaign shots.

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