Tennis and towels go together like LA and astrology, New Yorkers and jet-black clothing. It’s not just sweat at stake; it’s the sort of inconvenient, potentially match-altering moisture capable of turning a perfectly good forehand into a regrettable one. At game point, a towel that can’t keep up becomes everyone’s problem. So at Wimbledon, yes, it really is that serious – and only Christy will do.
Because if anyone understands the cultural weight of a good towel, it’s them. The English heritage brand invented the world’s first industrially produced looped cotton terrycloth towel in 1850. Legend has it that after encountering the impossibly soft fabric at London’s Great Exhibition the following year, Queen Victoria immediately placed an order.
