Themed Cardio Tennis Clinics in the Fort Lauderdale Area
Lightweight micro pique with a jacquard-striped rib-knit collar, vertical side stripes and the ST monogram hidden at the back of the neck, in deep Ultramarine. Thane comes first — a lake at the centre of town, a temple and a church sharing its shore, and lotus at dusk.
Sergio Tacchini Campo Court Men's Polo Shirt: Talao Pali sits at the centre of Thane with rowing boats on the water, which is exactly the sort of place where a polo shirt might fall in love with its own reflection. I am not saying the lake is flirting, but honestly, look at it shimmering.
Sergio Tacchini Campo Court Men's Polo Shirt: Kopineshwar Mandir stands on the water's edge, and its shivalinga is five feet across—an architectural declaration so grand it makes my heart fan itself dramatically. Even the collar looks as if it has come to pay its respects.
Sergio Tacchini Campo Court Men's Polo Shirt: The church of St John the Baptist stands just a few steps behind Kopineshwar Mandir, which feels like Thane staging a neighborhood romance between stone, faith, and excellent walkability. If buildings could pass notes, these two would need a bigger stationery budget.
Sergio Tacchini Campo Court Men's Polo Shirt: Upvan Lake lies under the Yeoor hills with lotus spread across the shallows, which is frankly unfair to anyone trying not to become poetic in public. The shirt is behaving nobly; I would already be composing sonnets and alarming the ducks.
Somebody designed this collar. I want to start there, because it is the sort of detail people walk straight past, and I never can. It is a rib-knit collar with a jacquard stripe woven into it — woven, not printed on afterwards — and the ST monogram sits at the back of the neck where nobody but you will ever know it is there.
That is a small, private piece of care, and small private care is the only kind I really believe in.
The rest of it. The Campo Court Polo is built from lightweight, breathable micro pique, which is the fine-gauge version of the textured knit that has dressed tennis since collars first came to the court, and it moves air rather than sitting on the skin.
Vertical side stripes run down the body and give the shirt a longer, cleaner line.
It comes in Ultramarine, that deep sea-blue that Sergio Tacchini keeps returning to, and there is a matching Campo Court short if you want the pair. What it is not is a compression-fit performance jersey.
It is a polo, in the proper sense — a shirt you can play three sets in and then sit down to dinner in, which is exactly the promise the sport used to make and mostly stopped making.
Talao Pali is a lake in the middle of everything with rowing boats on it, and on the water's edge stands Kopineshwar Mandir with a shivalinga five feet across. A few steps behind the temple is the church of St John the Baptist — a temple and a church, that close, sharing a shoreline, and neither of them moved.
Thane is a town built around water it fell for.
Out under the Yeoor hills, Upvan Lake grows lotus across its shallows. A city that keeps arranging itself around whatever it loves.
Somebody wove a stripe into a collar nobody would see. That is the whole romance of this shirt.
