A shirt does one thing well or several things poorly. This one has chosen. It is the tee from Lacoste's Novak Djokovic range: a lightweight stretch jersey, cut short-sleeved and simple, carrying the house's Ultra Dry treatment so that sweat is moved off the skin and out to the surface to dry rather than sitting in the cloth and going heavy.
That is the whole of it. Stretch, so it moves when you move and does not ask to be adjusted. Light, so the heat leaves. This is match kit and warm-up kit both, and its real quality is that you stop noticing it — which is the quiet aim of any good garment, and of most good afternoons.
The crocodile at the chest and no other decoration to speak of.
In 1864 a group of men sat in one room in Province House and talked, and nothing was signed, and nothing was concluded, and it took three more years for a country to come out of it. The room is still there. It is quite small. Nobody in it knew what it would become, and they went on talking anyway.
Charlottetown understands unhurried things.
You will wear this everywhere from an early practice set to a long humid afternoon of doubles, and it is also perfect for the walk down to the harbour afterwards, where the boats come in with lobster and nobody who lives here has ever hurried that process either.
Breathe out. The match will start when it starts.
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