adidas Club 3-Stripes Men’s Tennis Polo
About Edirne
This border city stands near the meeting of the Tunca and Meriç rivers, close to Greece and Bulgaria. It served as the Ottoman capital before the conquest of Constantinople in 1453, and its skyline is still marked by the sixteenth-century Selimiye Mosque designed by Mimar Sinan.
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The Club 3-Stripes polo sits in adidas’s everyday tennis range rather than its tournament range. It is a regular fit, so it hangs rather than clings, with a two-button collar and the three stripes running down each sleeve.
The body is 100% recycled polyester interlock. Interlock is a knit rather than a weave, which is why it gives where the body asks it to instead of resisting across the shoulder, and AEROREADY is the moisture specification applied to it: perspiration is pulled off the skin and passed to the outer face of the fabric, where it evaporates.
The underarm is where a tennis polo usually fails, and it is where the construction here is most deliberate.
Mesh inserts sit under each arm for airflow, and extra fabric is cut into that panel so the shoulder can rise on a serve without dragging the hem out of the waistband. The hem is a droptail, cut longer at the back so it stays put on a reach.
Edirne stands on the Thracian plain in the far north-west of Turkey, where summers run hot and the air over the flat river country sits still – the conditions that make an underarm mesh panel a working part rather than a styling detail.
Specifications
| Type | Men's tennis polo |
|---|---|
| Range | adidas Club |
| Fit | Regular |
| Fabric | 100% recycled polyester interlock |
| Technology | AEROREADY |
| Placket | Two-button |
| Ventilation | Mesh inserts under the arms |
| Shoulder | Additional fabric cut into the underarm panel |
| Hem | Droptail, longer at the back |
| Detail | Three stripes on each sleeve |
The Club range is where adidas puts the features a club player uses every week and leaves out the ones reserved for tour kit, which is what keeps this shirt at the price it sits at.
LET adidas Club 3-Stripes Men’s Tennis Polo SHOW YOU Edirne
Polo: I tailed the dome and found eight piers doing the heavy lifting, all while four pencil minarets stood outside looking innocent. Sinan called this mosque his masterpiece; I call it a suspect with excellent posture.
Polo: The Old Mosque has calligraphy so big it could intimidate a lamppost. Built in the early 1400s, it keeps its statements on the walls, which is handy for a detective and terrible for a liar.
Polo: The Ali Pasha bazaar runs six gates deep, the kind of place where a clue can buy socks and vanish before lunch. It dates to the 16th century, and every arch looks like it knows who shortchanged whom.
Polo: The Meric Bridge stretches over the river like a witness with too much time to think. Built in the Ottoman era under Sultan Abdulmecid, it even keeps a stone kiosk at midspan, because every good alibi needs an office.
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