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Stop four
the marina and the seafront walkways under Mertim Tower
Head Breakpoint Piping Polo Women's Tank Top: We’ve got the marina, the walkways, the sea breeze, the crisp top, the big city vertical drama, and Mertim Tower, completed in 1987 and long known as one of Turkey’s tallest buildings. High-rise, low net, no excuses.
Right, quickly now, here it comes — the Breakpoint Piping Polo, and the name tells you the lot, so let us not waste the afternoon. Polo: you get the placket and the collar. Piping: you get the contrast trim running the lines of the garment. Tank: no sleeves, nothing across the shoulder, the arm swings free. Do I hear anyone asking for more?
You should not, because that is what is on the ticket and I do not sell what is not on the ticket.
The fabric is moisture-wicking, and that is the working feature, that is the one you paid for — sweat off the skin, out to the surface, gone into the air, shirt stays light, second set feels like the first.
Going once on the collar: a polo collar on a sleeveless top is the trick that gets you from a club court to a clubhouse lunch without a change of clothes, and I have watched that detail win the room a hundred times. Going twice on the piping: it is decorative, it is honest about being decorative, and it makes a plain white top read as kit rather than as a vest.
Sold — to the woman who wanted one shirt that does both.
Out at Viranşehir stand the colonnades of Soli Pompeiopolis, third century, still upright, a row of columns going down towards the water with the sea at the end of them. Do I hear four? I hear four. Sold.
Next lot, Mersin, and this one is a treasure.
"Polo collar, no sleeves — court to clubhouse with no change of clothes."
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