One notes, with some approval, that they have called it a bralette and not something grander. The Lacoste Ultra Dry Sport Bralette Tennis Sports Bra is precisely what that word has always meant: a light, unstructured, pull-on garment with no underwire and no architecture. It is not a fortified high-impact construction and it would be vulgar of it to pretend otherwise.
It is built on Ultra Dry, which is Lacoste's own moisture-wicking technology and, one must be clear, only that — it draws perspiration off the skin and spreads it across the face of the cloth so the air may remove it. Lacoste files sun protection under an entirely different name, as any properly ordered house would.
It makes no claim whatsoever regarding the sun.
The colours number five and the list is, I think, rather good: Black, Navy Blue, Green, Rubine Red, and one called simply Miami. Rubine is a deep blue-toned red — a jeweller's word, borrowed, and quite correctly borrowed.
Miami is presumably a great deal louder.
As for fibre content, the size run and whether the pads may be removed: I could establish none of it from any source I would receive in this house, and I decline to invent a specification. One does not embellish a provenance. The care instruction, however, is documented and I would ask you to attend to it: gentle laundering at thirty degrees and absolutely no tumble drying.
A dryer is a machine for ruining good things quickly.
I have placed it in Chihuahua City, which I confess I did not expect to admire and now do. It is high desert — a mile above sea level, dry as paper, and the sun there is direct in a way that flatters nobody. Perspiration evaporates almost the instant it appears, which is exactly the climate in which a wicking cloth performs at its best.
And the town has more refinement in it than its reputation suggests: Quinta Gameros is a genuine Art Nouveau mansion, all curved stone and stained glass, standing on a street in the high desert as though it had simply wandered off from somewhere else and decided to stay.
You will wear this everywhere from an evening clinic back home to the Plaza de Armas at dusk, and by the way, it is also perfect for the very early start you will need for the canyon train.
A bralette that calls itself a bralette. In an age of overstatement, one is grateful.
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