Come here, sweetheart, let me explain this one properly, because the name is a mouthful and every word in it is doing a job. Powerimpact is adidas's medium-support family — medium, and I want you to hear that from me and not find it out halfway through a match. Techfit means it is built as compression, holding you close rather than hanging on you.
High neck means it comes up, so there is proper coverage and you are not tugging at anything between points. And zip means there is a zip up the front, which — and nobody tells you this until you are forty — is the difference between getting changed after a hot match and performing a small wrestling match in a car park.
It is moisture-wicking, so the sweat goes out through the fabric instead of sitting against your skin, and that matters more than anything else in a bra you are going to be in for two hours. The compression construction is where the support comes from in a garment like this — no hooks doing the work, the whole fabric doing it together.
The rest is what you would want.
And the front zip means you also get to put it on without going over your head, which if you have ever done your hair before a match is not a small kindness. Medium support. Compression fit. High neck. A zip. That is the whole thing, and it is a sensible, thought-through garment, and I would buy it for you.
Now. Kim Il Sung Square first, where the granite paving is numbered for parade formations — actual numbers, cut into the stone, so everyone knows exactly where to stand, and I will not pretend I do not find that a little sad.
Pyongyang, and you will stay with the group, and you will eat something before we go.
Then the Juche Tower across the river, a stone shaft topped with a red glass flame that lights up at night, and you can go up it, and the view takes in the whole river bend. The Arch of Triumph at Moranbong next, built deliberately taller than the one in Paris, which is the sort of thing a nephew of mine would do.
And Puhung station on the metro — a hundred metres down, chandeliers hanging over mosaic platforms, the most beautiful room in the city, and it is a train station, and everybody uses it.
“The most beautiful room in the whole city is a train platform, and everyone rides through it every morning.”
Medium support, compression, high neck, front zip. Eat something first.
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