One hundred per cent recycled. ONE HUNDRED. Stop me — no, do not stop me, this is the good bit. This polo is 100% polyester and Nike says the whole thing is made from recycled polyester fibres, which means every fibre in the shirt on your back had a previous career as something else and has been dragged back out for one more shift. I LOVE THAT.
It has a fold-over collar and a two-button placket, it machine washes, and it comes in four colourways: Black/White, Navy/White, Obsidian/White, and White/Black. Obsidian, by the way, is a very dark blue and not black, and if you buy the wrong one you will be annoyed at me and not at yourself.
That is my favourite kind of guest.
Dri-FIT is the technology and here is the actual mechanism, because it is better than the advertising: it is a microfiber construction that lifts sweat off your skin and spreads it out over the surface of the cloth, so a big thin puddle evaporates instead of a small deep one sitting in the weave. Big surface, fast evaporation, that is all it is, and it is PHYSICS, not a coating.
And the part I genuinely raise a glass to: Nike states the sweat-managing property is permanent for the life of the garment. It cannot wear off. You cannot ruin it by washing it too often, which — and I say this with love — some of you needed to hear.
There is nothing on top of the fabric to come off.
Jabalpur. Right. THE MARBLE. Eight kilometres of white and pink cliff standing over the Narmada at Bhedaghat, and at the end of it the river throws itself off the edge at the Dhuandhar falls, which means smoke cascade, because the spray comes up as mist. Eight kilometres of marble gorge. You take a boat through it.
In the moonlight, which is the only correct time, the whole thing GLOWS. You will wear this everywhere from an evening clinic back home to a boat under those cliffs — and by the way, it is perfect for the walk round the Chausath Yogini circle up top, which is 125 feet across with eighty-one cells in it, and then dinner, and then more of the evening.
OBVIOUSLY more of the evening.
Every fibre in this shirt had a previous career and has been dragged back out for one more shift. My favourite kind of guest.
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