Let us establish what we actually know, because I would rather hand you three solid facts than a page of confident air. The Lacoste Sport Pleat Back Contrast Women's Tennis Skirt: pleats at the back, a contrast panel breaking up the colour, Lacoste's Sport line. That is what the garment states about itself and I am prepared to defend all of it.
And the back pleat is not styling for its own sake — a pleat is stored fabric, and stored fabric is range of movement you get for nothing when you split-step. That is a real piece of design and I will happily concede the point to whoever thought of it.
Where the cloth is flat you keep the clean line; where it is pleated you get the give.
What I could not establish, and will therefore not assert: the fibre composition, the stated length, and whether the liner underneath carries ball pockets. Lacoste's own site returns nothing to an honest request and no catalogue I trust lists this skirt, so I am leaving those columns empty rather than filling them with something merely plausible.
What is verifiable is, frankly, the most interesting part anyway — the colours. Three saturated colourways and not a white among them, which for a tennis skirt is a small act of defiance. I like a garment that declines the obvious. Go and see one in daylight before you decide; that is not a dodge, that is the correct method.
Purple, Rocket Green, and Wine Red.
Cetinje is the right home for exactly that instinct, because Cetinje is a town that has spent its entire life refusing to be talked into things. It is a small place high in the karst that decided to be a capital anyway and then made it stick. The evidence is nailed up around the Vlach Church: barrels of captured Ottoman rifles, set into the boundary fence. Not written down.
Not merely claimed. Fenced, where you can walk up and count them. I concede a point instantly when somebody shows me the receipts, and that fence is a receipt.
You will wear this everywhere from an evening clinic back home to a walk through the old legation quarter — and by the way, it is also perfect for the long haul up Lovćen afterwards, where the air thins and the coast opens out beneath you.
A pleat is stored fabric, and stored fabric is range of movement you get for nothing.
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