Sergio Tacchini Sabino Knit Men’s Polo Shirt

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Sergio Tacchini Sabino Knit Men's Polo Shirt

A drop-needle knit with needles deliberately left out, opening vertical channels of texture and airflow. Damarindo lines across the chest, an embroidered ST monogram, Maritime Blue or Mojave Desert; cotton, so it drinks. Bender first, for a fortress and a fabulist.

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Fort Lauderdale adult tennis classes — Sergio Tacchini Sabino Knit Men's Polo Shirt photographed at Tighina Fortress above the Dniester River in Bender
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Tighina Fortress, raised by the Ottoman architect Sinan in 1538 above the river

Sergio Tacchini Sabino Knit Men's Polo Shirt: In 1538, the Ottomans backed Sinan to raise Tighina Fortress above the Dniester; that is what gamblers call putting the house edge in stone. Anyone betting on an easy crossing should have folded before the river card.

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Fort Lauderdale adult tennis classes — Sergio Tacchini Sabino Knit Men's Polo Shirt photographed by the Baron Munchausen monument in Bender
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The Baron Munchausen monument, the baron astride the cannonball he rode over these walls

Sergio Tacchini Sabino Knit Men's Polo Shirt: Baron Munchausen is shown here riding a cannonball, which is a bold wager even before you ask about the landing odds. If he cleared these walls, I am calling it the luckiest long shot in Bender.

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Fort Lauderdale adult tennis classes — Sergio Tacchini Sabino Knit Men's Polo Shirt photographed at the Transfiguration Cathedral in Bender old town
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The Transfiguration Cathedral in the old town

Sergio Tacchini Sabino Knit Men's Polo Shirt: The Transfiguration Cathedral stands in Bender’s old town, and with a name like that it is already promising a better hand after the deal. I have seen worse bets than turning up dressed sharp beside a cathedral.

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Fort Lauderdale adult tennis classes — Sergio Tacchini Sabino Knit Men's Polo Shirt photographed on the Dniester embankment at the Bender-Tiraspol bridge
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The Dniester embankment at the Bender-Tiraspol bridge

Sergio Tacchini Sabino Knit Men's Polo Shirt: The Bender-Tiraspol bridge crosses the Dniester between the two cities, which makes this embankment a fine place to count your chips and your exits. Bridges are always a wager: one side says stay, the other says double down.

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Sergio Tacchini Sabino Knit Men's Polo Shirt

Written for this world alone.

Here is a bet worth taking. Most polos are a straight pique knit and you know exactly what you are getting. This one is a drop needle construction, and that is the long shot on the card.

Drop needle means the knitting machine deliberately leaves needles out of action, which opens vertical channels through the fabric. You get texture you can see and air you can feel, running in fine lines down the body.

It is a riskier build — more can go wrong on the machine, the cloth has to be made properly or it looks cheap — and when it comes off, as it does here, you have a polo that breathes like a summer shirt and reads as something considerably more expensive than a gym top. The yarn is exceptionally soft cotton.

Across the chest sits the Damarindo lines design, the house's own signature marking, and the ST monogram is embroidered rather than printed. It comes in Maritime Blue and in Mojave Desert. Now the odds against: this is not a performance shirt. No wicking chassis, no synthetic.

It is cotton, and cotton drinks.

Play in it in mild weather and travel in it; back it in forty degrees and you will lose.

Bender is a town built on wagers. Tighina Fortress was raised in 1538 by the Ottoman architect Sinan above the river, which was somebody betting that a bend in the water was worth fortifying, and being right for four hundred years.

There is a monument to Baron Munchausen here, the baron astride the cannonball he claimed to have ridden over these very walls — a man whose entire method was doubling down. The Transfiguration Cathedral stands in the old town, and the embankment runs down to the bridge.

Cotton and a drop needle knit. A long shot on a hot day and a certainty on a mild one.

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