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Lightweight two-way woven that dries fast, placed pleats, a bonded drawcord waistband, contrast taped seams and an inner sprinter. Windhoek is the tour, and I will explain why the locals call their parliament the Ink Palace.
Asics Match Pleat Women's Tennis Skirt: Christuskirche was consecrated in 1910, built in stone with Art Nouveau stained glass, because apparently even piety needs a design brief. Lovely windows; less lovely are the generations who had to pay for everyone's grand gestures.
Asics Match Pleat Women's Tennis Skirt: The Alte Feste began in 1890 as a German colonial fort, which is a very human way to say “we brought architecture and also guns.” It later held Namibia’s national history collection, because history enjoys moving into the scene of the crime.
Asics Match Pleat Women's Tennis Skirt: The Tintenpalast was completed in 1913 and its name means “Ink Palace,” which is exactly the sort of title bureaucracy would give itself if left unsupervised. Parliament sits here now, surrounded by gardens, because paperwork always looks better with lawns.
Asics Match Pleat Women's Tennis Skirt: The Independence Memorial Museum opened in 2014 to present Namibia’s anti-colonial struggle and independence story, in a gold-and-glass block that does not whisper. The top floor looks over Windhoek, so at least humanity’s habit of commemorating pain comes with a view.
It is a pleated tennis skirt. People have been buying pleated tennis skirts since the 1920s, largely so they could feel like somebody at Wimbledon, and I am not going to pretend this one has solved a great human problem. What I will say — grudgingly, and only because it is true — is that the pleats here are placed to do something rather than to look period-correct.
They open across the range of the stride. That is more thought than the category usually gets.
The fabric is a lightweight two-way stretch woven, quick-drying, and at least half of the main material is recycled content. The waistband is bonded rather than sewn through, with a drawcord run inside it, which means no bulk at the front and no ridge under a top.
The seams are taped in a contrast colour — presented as a design flourish, and it is, but taped seams are also simply stronger, so somebody got to have both. There is an integrated inner sprinter, which is a short built in rather than issued as a separate item you will lose.
Sizes extra small through extra large.
That is the entire specification, and the fact that it is short is a point in its favour.
Windhoek is a city that has been renamed and re-flagged more than once and keeps the buildings anyway, which I respect more than I expected to. The Christuskirche of 1910, a Lutheran church in stone with Art Nouveau glass, built for a congregation that has largely gone.
The Alte Feste, a fort from 1890 that now holds the national history collection, so the building that enforced the story is the building that tells it. The Tintenpalast of 1913 — the Ink Palace, named by locals for the quantity of ink they expected to be wasted inside it, which remains the finest piece of architectural criticism I have encountered.
And the Independence Memorial Museum, gold and glass, with a top-floor view over the whole city and a lift that works.
“They called the parliament the Ink Palace before it had passed a single law. Nobody has improved on that.”
Buy the skirt. It is honest, which around here is rarer than it should be.
