From Althea Gibson and Billie Jean King to Steffi Graf and Venus Williams and Serena Williams, here’s your recap of the tennis icons that inspired summer 2020’s quietly powerful look.
From Althea Gibson and Billie Jean King to Steffi Graf and Venus and Serena Williams, here’s your recap of the tennis icons that inspired summer 2020’s quietly powerful look.“I was daydreaming about my little tiny universe of tennis, and I thought to myself: ‘Everybody’s wearing white shoes, white socks, white clothes, playing with white balls, everybody who plays is white.
The Wimbledon Tennis Championships, which were due to start this month, have maintained consistently strict regulations surrounding players’ dress codes since the tournament’s inception in 1877, its most famous wardrobe decree being those obligatory tennis whites. Not cream, not off-white, but white — right down to the player’s underwear and shoes — a rule originally born out of the Victorians’ extreme social phobia of being seen to perspire. Yes, perspire.
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