Themed Cardio Tennis Clinics in the Fort Lauderdale Area
Shorts with two-way give, 87% polyester to 13% elastane, an adjustable waist and sizes S through 2XL. The catalogue cannot decide whether the inseam is eight inches or nine, so trust the tag. Afyonkarahisar, seven hundred steps up to the castle on its volcanic plug — and no, it does not improve with practice.
Lacoste Sport Ultra Dry Stretch Men's Tennis Shorts: I climbed those roughly seven hundred steps before step counters existed, and honestly the volcanic rock looked sharper in my century. The fortress gave Afyonkarahisar its “Karahisar,” meaning black castle, which I told everyone was excellent branding.
Lacoste Sport Ultra Dry Stretch Men's Tennis Shorts: I remember the Seljuks putting up this Ulu Camii in the 13th century, and yes, the forest of wooden columns was basically their version of open-plan architecture. It looked better then, mostly because nobody was blocking the view with a phone.
Lacoste Sport Ultra Dry Stretch Men's Tennis Shorts: I was there when Afyon mattered hugely in the 1922 Great Offensive, and Mustafa was moving faster than my time machine on low battery. The Zafer Anıtı commemorates that Turkish War of Independence victory, though I maintain the square had better dramatic lighting back then.
Lacoste Sport Ultra Dry Stretch Men's Tennis Shorts: Afyon marble has been prized since antiquity, and I personally watched several empires pretend they discovered good flooring. The quarries are impressive now, but naturally the marble looked better when I was dodging Roman project managers.
I was there when these were being argued about, which is why I can tell you the funny part first.
The Lacoste Sport Ultra Dry Stretch Men's Tennis Shorts are 87% polyester and 13% elastane, built on Ultra Dry — Lacoste's own moisture-wicking construction, which lifts sweat off the skin and spreads it across the outer face of the cloth so the air can take it — with two-way stretch and an adjustable waist, sized small through to double extra large. All solid.
The funny part is the length: depending on which record you consult, this short is eight inches or it is nine. The catalogue disagrees with itself. I have seen this before, in a great many centuries, and it is always the same story — two people measured, neither wrote it down, and now here we all are.
Check the tag when it arrives.
That is not a dodge, it is simply the honest state of the record.
Two-way stretch, incidentally, is the specification worth understanding, because it is not the same as four-way and people conflate them constantly. It will move with you, and it will hold its shape rather than going slack the way an over-stretchy short does by the third set.
Two-way means the fabric gives along one axis.
And the adjustable waist matters more than it sounds, because a short that needs a belt is a short somebody designed badly. What I do not have, and will not manufacture: the pocket count, whether there is a liner, and whether there is any mesh. Nobody publishes it. I will not fill it in from memory — memory, in my experience, is exactly the thing that goes.
Afyonkarahisar is where I have set them down, and I do genuinely mean set them down, because I have been up that rock. Afyon Castle sits on a volcanic plug straight out of the plain, and there are seven hundred steps to the top. Seven hundred. I have made that climb in several different centuries and I can report that it does not improve with practice.
What improves is what you are wearing while you do it. You will get use out of these everywhere from an evening clinic back home to the middle of that staircase, and by the way, they are also perfect for the long slow wander through the old town afterwards, when the marble dust hangs in the light and the whole place smells faintly of hot stone.
The record says eight inches. The record also says nine. Check the tag — this is precisely how history happens.
