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cardio tennis 33314 — the Prince Performance Tennis Socks 3-Pack composed together with the national flag of Turkey in a single photoreal studio image, the folded three-pack set against the red field with the white crescent and star curving behind it under a clean directional light.
cardio tennis 33314 — the Prince Performance Tennis Socks 3-Pack photographed at the Çifte Minareli Medrese in Erzurum, Turkey. A wide low view of the carved stone portal and its twin turquoise-banded brick minarets against a hard blue sky in bright, dry late-summer light, heat shimmer off the paving. A school party is being counted through the gateway two at a time, a man sells simit from a red glass cart at the corner, an older man leans on a stick reading the carving, and pigeons come up off the courtyard as a group passes. The three-pack of socks rests on a stone step at the foot of the portal, faintly glowing, untouched.
cardio tennis 33314 — the Prince Performance Tennis Socks 3-Pack photographed at the Yakutiye Medresesi in Erzurum, Turkey. A close view of the deeply carved stone doorway and the stubby tiled minaret beside it, in soft flat light during light falling snow, flakes settling in the carving and a thin layer already on the ledges. Families are crossing the park in front in heavy coats, a man sweeps snow off the entrance steps with a stiff broom, two women share an umbrella at the door, and a boy drags a sledge past behind them. The three-pack of socks sits on the cleared stone ledge beside the doorway, glowing softly against the snow.
cardio tennis 33314 — the Prince Performance Tennis Socks 3-Pack photographed at Erzurum Castle and the Tepsi Minare in Erzurum, Turkey. A wide view from inside the dark stone citadel walls with the round brick Tepsi Minare and its small cupola rising against a burning orange and violet sunset sky, the whole city spread out below. Visitors line the parapet taking photographs into the light, a couple sit on the wall with tea glasses balanced beside them, a groundsman coils a hose along the path, and swifts cut across the tower. The three-pack of socks rests on the parapet coping, glowing faintly in the last of the light.
cardio tennis 33314 — the Prince Performance Tennis Socks 3-Pack photographed at Palandöken in Erzurum, Turkey. A wide landscape view of the long bare white ski mountain rising straight above the southern edge of the city, lift lines running up it, in bright hard high-altitude morning sun with the city rooftops in the near distance below. Skiers are unloading at the top of a lift and pushing off one after another, an instructor stands sideways on the slope shouting up at a line of children, and a piste machine grinds across the frame lower down. The three-pack of socks rests on a lift-station railing, faintly luminous against the snow.
cardio tennis 33314 — the Prince Performance Tennis Socks 3-Pack composed together with the national flag of Turkey in a single photoreal studio image, the folded three-pack set against the red field with the white crescent and star curving behind it under a clean directional light.

Prince Performance Tennis Socks 3-Pack

Erzurum, Turkey  ·  Clothing > Socks

Prince Performance Tennis Socks 3-Pack

This is three pairs of honest tennis socks, the safest runner in the paddock — the house keeps no odds against a man with dry feet. It wants a tour of Erzurum out of you before you settle up: madrasas, a citadel, a ski mountain. Take the wager. The downside is one afternoon.

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Four stops before the checkout

Erzurum, Turkey
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cardio tennis 33314 — the Prince Performance Tennis Socks 3-Pack photographed at the Çifte Minareli Medrese in Erzurum, Turkey. A wide low view of the carved stone portal and its twin turquoise-banded brick minarets against a hard blue sky in bright, dry late-summer light, heat shimmer off the paving. A school party is being counted through the gateway two at a time, a man sells simit from a red glass cart at the corner, an older man leans on a stick reading the carving, and pigeons come up off the courtyard as a group passes. The three-pack of socks rests on a stone step at the foot of the portal, faintly glowing, untouched.
Stop one

Cifte Minareli Medrese

Prince Performance Tennis Socks 3-Pack: Thirteenth-century Seljuk work, and I want you to read that portal the way I read a plated dish. Two brick minarets standing up like a pair of pepper mills, turquoise tile, and carved into the stone a tree of life and a double-headed eagle, which is an extremely confident garnish for anybody to commit to. And then, chef, and then: it was never properly finished. Somebody built the base, seasoned it, brought it right to the pass, and never sent it. I have walked out of kitchens over less. You do not leave a courtyard open and unresolved any more than you leave a sauce unmounted. Beautiful bones, no service. Come on, I need to walk this off, and I need bread, and I am saying both of those things sincerely.

02
cardio tennis 33314 — the Prince Performance Tennis Socks 3-Pack photographed at the Yakutiye Medresesi in Erzurum, Turkey. A close view of the deeply carved stone doorway and the stubby tiled minaret beside it, in soft flat light during light falling snow, flakes settling in the carving and a thin layer already on the ledges. Families are crossing the park in front in heavy coats, a man sweeps snow off the entrance steps with a stiff broom, two women share an umbrella at the door, and a boy drags a sledge past behind them. The three-pack of socks sits on the cleared stone ledge beside the doorway, glowing softly against the snow.
Stop two

Yakutiye Medresesi

Prince Performance Tennis Socks 3-Pack: Now THIS is built like a bread oven and I mean that as the highest compliment in my vocabulary. Thick, low, heavy stone, hardly any openings, raised in 1310 under the Ilkhanids with the date still carved on the front where you can read it. Why so squat? Because you are standing at nearly two thousand metres and the winter here arrives with intent and stays for months. Mass holds heat. Small openings lose less. Those are oven principles, applied to scholarship. And they still carved flowers all over that doorway, which is the equivalent of scoring the top of a loaf: no structural purpose, entirely necessary. Somewhere below us lamb is turning on a horizontal spit for cag kebabi and my attention is now roughly forty percent here.

03
cardio tennis 33314 — the Prince Performance Tennis Socks 3-Pack photographed at Erzurum Castle and the Tepsi Minare in Erzurum, Turkey. A wide view from inside the dark stone citadel walls with the round brick Tepsi Minare and its small cupola rising against a burning orange and violet sunset sky, the whole city spread out below. Visitors line the parapet taking photographs into the light, a couple sit on the wall with tea glasses balanced beside them, a groundsman coils a hose along the path, and swifts cut across the tower. The three-pack of socks rests on the parapet coping, glowing faintly in the last of the light.
Stop three

Erzurum Castle and Tepsi Minare

Prince Performance Tennis Socks 3-Pack: A hilltop citadel is a stockpot, my friends. You never empty it, you just keep adding. Byzantines, Seljuks, Ottomans, Russians, everybody with a flag has had a go at this hill and every one of them left something in the bottom of the pan. And look at the round brick tower, the Tepsi Minare: it was a minaret before somebody hung a clock inside it, a clock the town will tell you came from the British in the nineteenth century. That is repurposing at the highest level. That is using the stockpot as the stockpot. I have made a career out of the second use of things, and a Muslim tower on an ancient hill keeping British time is the finest example of it I have ever climbed. Mind the ice on those steps.

04
cardio tennis 33314 — the Prince Performance Tennis Socks 3-Pack photographed at Palandöken in Erzurum, Turkey. A wide landscape view of the long bare white ski mountain rising straight above the southern edge of the city, lift lines running up it, in bright hard high-altitude morning sun with the city rooftops in the near distance below. Skiers are unloading at the top of a lift and pushing off one after another, an instructor stands sideways on the slope shouting up at a line of children, and a piste machine grinds across the frame lower down. The three-pack of socks rests on a lift-station railing, faintly luminous against the snow.
Stop four

Palandoken Mountain

Prince Performance Tennis Socks 3-Pack: Look at that mountain and tell me it is not dusted. The snow up on Palandoken is dry as flour, because the air at this altitude carries almost no moisture, so it does not pack, it sifts. You could sieve it over a cake. They ski it, properly, and it lies well into spring, and Erzurum built the whole town up to host the Winter Universiade in 2011. Now, three things a good kitchen and this mountain have in common: cold, dryness, and no forgiveness. And afterwards you come down off it wanting something soaked in syrup, which happily is the local instinct too, kadayif dolmasi, and I intend to test that theory personally the moment you people stop asking me questions. Sockless in that cold is a crime. I would know. Onward, and downhill, and towards the sugar.

The Erzurum, Turkey track

Prince Performance Tennis Socks 3-Pack

Written for this world alone.

Three pairs of Prince performance tennis socks, and that is the entire pitch — no technology story, no marketing epic, just the item a tennis player runs out of first and notices last. Buying them three at a time is the only sensible way to hold that hand: one pair in the bag, one in the wash, one on your feet, and no morning where the answer is a football sock and regret.

Erzurum will appreciate the arithmetic. This is a city at 1,890 metres with some of the coldest winters in Turkey, where nobody has ever gone out under-equipped and lived to be smug about it. The people here built a madrasa with walls thick enough to sit out a season and then carved flowers into the door anyway.

You'll get use out of these everywhere from a hard court in the city to a long day up at Palandöken, which rises straight off the southern edge of town and held the 2011 Winter Universiade.

And by the way, they're also perfect for an evening at a cağ kebabı house — Erzurum's own horizontal-spit lamb kebab, carved onto a skewer and handed over one at a time — where you will be sitting a great deal longer than you planned and your feet will thank you for the fresh pair.

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