Lower your voice and lean in, because I am going to tell you the thing nobody says out loud about women's tennis shorts: everyone wants them and nobody talks about them. A skirt is what gets photographed. Shorts are what half the club actually plays in, and they are quietly the most sensible garment in the bag. There. Said it.
So — what are they? Athletic tennis shorts in a moisture-wicking fabric, cut to move. That is the entire honest inventory and I am not going to inflate it, because a rumour that turns out to be false is worse than no rumour at all.
But do not let the short list fool you.
The wicking is the whole story: sweat is pulled off the skin and out to the surface where the air takes it, which means at the change of ends you are not sitting in something heavy. And shorts specifically — no hem to think about when you lunge, nothing riding, nothing to check.
Imagine the faces of the people who have spent twenty years fussing with a skirt they never particularly liked.
Now. That lighthouse on the shore is the oldest building the city has left standing, and it was one of the first anywhere raised in reinforced concrete — a brand new material, tried out at the mouth of the biggest engineering project on earth. And the Military Museum on 23 July Street tells the 1956 crisis from the city's own side.
Port Said, and this is where it gets good.
Its own side. Nobody tells you that before you go.
"Everybody wants them and nobody talks about them. There. Said it."
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