Head Pro Player Tennis Cap
Head Pro Player Tennis Cap
A cap is a modest argument about shade, settled in white. Micro-fibre polyester, UV blocking, sweatband inside, Velcro at the rear — four modest answers to four modest problems, and Kingston upon Hull is where you decide whether that is enough.
Four stops before the checkout
What is a cap for? The obvious answer is shade, and the obvious answer is wrong, or at least incomplete. Shade is what a tree gives. A cap is a decision you carry with you — a small portable agreement that for the next two hours the sun is not going to be part of the argument. Consider how much of playing well is simply removing things from the argument.
The shell is 100 per cent lightweight polyester, micro-fibre, with UV protection built into it — that handles the sun. Mesh inserts in the top of the cap handle the heat that would otherwise be trapped under it.
So, what has been removed here, and how.
An additional sweatband inside handles the sweat, catching it at the brow rather than letting it reach the eyes at the worst possible moment. And an adjustable Velcro strap handles the fit, which is the variable that undoes all the others if you get it wrong. This one comes in white.
The embroidered icon on the front is sized to the ITF's tournament rules for logos.
Four small problems, four small answers, one object. What does it mean that we solve so little so well?
Kingston upon Hull is a city that has thought about this. There is a tidal surge barrier on the River Hull with a great gate that is lowered against high tides — a single moving thing standing between the water and everybody's front room.
And at the Guildhall they keep the town's founding charter in the archives: the document that says this place exists, held in a building the document made possible. Consider that for a moment before you walk on.
"A cap is a small portable agreement that the sun will not be part of the argument."
