Themed Cardio Tennis Clinics in the Fort Lauderdale Area
A polo whose pattern is knitted into the structure of the cloth rather than printed on top of it — so it cannot crack, peel or wash off — built on Lacoste's Ultra Dry wicking construction. Esslingen am Neckar first, where an astronomical clock from 1589 is still running. Which is fine. It's fine. It's actually kind of amazing.
Lacoste Ultra Dry Stretch Jacquard Men's Polo Shirt: So the polo is up by Burg Esslingen, which is fine, I guess, with the Dicker Turm sitting in the old hilltop fortifications above vineyard terraces. It’s not like a round tower over medieval walls and wine slopes is objectively a pretty efficient backdrop or anything—whatever.
Lacoste Ultra Dry Stretch Jacquard Men's Polo Shirt: Here it is at the Altes Rathaus, and yeah, the astronomical clock is from 1589 and there’s a carillon, which is fine, I guess. I only noticed because Renaissance civic timekeeping is apparently hard to ignore—ugh, forget I said that.
Lacoste Ultra Dry Stretch Jacquard Men's Polo Shirt: The shirt is on the Innere Brucke, a medieval bridge across Esslingen’s Neckar canals, so that’s fine, I guess. Bridges are basically old infrastructure doing group projects with water, and this one has been showing off for centuries.
Lacoste Ultra Dry Stretch Jacquard Men's Polo Shirt: Now it’s at Kessler Sekt, Germany’s oldest sparkling wine house, founded in 1826, which is fine, I guess. Georg Christian Kessler started it after learning the Champagne business, but I’m not excited, I just accidentally know that.
It's a polo. It's fine. I don't know what you want me to — okay, fine, the jacquard bit is actually not boring, whatever. Jacquard isn't a print. That's the thing people get wrong.
A print is ink sitting on top of a finished cloth; a jacquard is the pattern knitted into the structure of the fabric while it's being made, loop by loop, on a machine that controls every single needle independently. You can't wash it off, it can't crack, it can't peel, because there's nothing sitting on top of anything.
Which means the design is the fabric.
The whole system is named after a guy called Jacquard who worked out how to run a loom off punched cards in about 1804, which is basically the first programmable machine, so, like, computers started as a way to make patterned shirts. Anyway. It's a polo.
It's just how the cloth is built.
It's on Ultra Dry, which is Lacoste's wicking thing — sweat comes off you, gets spread out across the outside of the fabric, evaporates instead of sitting there. And stretch, obviously, it says stretch in the name.
What I don't have is the fibre percentages or the size run or the collar details, because Lacoste doesn't publish it anywhere I can actually get to, and I'm not going to make something up so it looks like I tried harder. Do not put it in the dryer though. Lacoste's whole care thing is wash it cool, hang it up, don't tumble it.
That part I do know and it's genuinely the only way people wreck these.
It's from Esslingen am Neckar, which is — okay, so, it's this ridiculously intact medieval town on the Neckar with vineyard terraces going straight up the hill behind it and a castle on top, and the town hall has an astronomical clock from 1589 that still works. Fifteen eighty-nine.
And there are these tiny stone bridges over canals in the middle of town that are older than most countries. I'm not saying it's amazing, I'm just saying I read about it.
You'll wear this everywhere from an evening clinic back home to walking up through the terraces here, and by the way it's also perfect for sitting in the courtyard afterwards doing absolutely nothing, which is what the town is actually best at.
The pattern isn't printed on the cloth. The pattern IS the cloth. That's the whole difference and nobody ever explains it.
