White dresses aren't the only fashion on the tennis court, there's more fashion than you might think.
The noble Polo shirt, the street prodigal son's cool Converse All Star rubber-soled shoes, and the tennis skirt that supports the girl's flowing posture are all fashion items that emerge from the tennis court.
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Since it can support the fashion half of the sky, tennis is naturally somewhat extraordinary temperament.
Looking back at the history of tennis, we know that this sport once belonged to the nobility, and the nobility has always been the benchmark of the trend of ordinary people.
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There is a theory that tennis first originated in the 12th century, when French monks invented the precursor of tennis while playing garden games, hitting the ball back and forth with their hands or back on the courtyard wall. By the middle of the 14th century, a French poet introduced it to the French court, and the sport of tennis became popular among the nobility.
By the 16th century, the cricket was born, the sport of tennis flourished, and it began to become popular among the European magnates, becoming the most popular aristocratic sport.
They love it and can even "waste" their lives.
King Henry VIII of England at that time was a true tennis enthusiast and built a separate tennis court at Hampton Court Palace. But even so, he did not love tennis as much as his second wife, Anne Boleyn, whose private life was "wonderful" not only for committing adultery with her brother but also planning to assassinate the king, and because of this, Henry VIII ordered her arrest, and the place where she was eventually captured was on the tennis court.
When Anne Boleyn was arrested in 1536, she also gambled a tennis match on the court.
Anne Boleyn
Shakespeare has mentioned tennis many times in his works. His theatrical work Nothing Happens writes: "The old decorations on his face have been stuffed with tennis balls".
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John Stow, a historian of Shakespeare's time, also notes in the London Survey that "the nobles and gentlemen played games on the tennis courts, while the middle classes played the game in the open grounds and on the streets."
These nobles loved tennis and were willing to change everything for it, including clothes.
Although tennis was a relatively elegant sport, the clothing worn by the nobles at that time limited their performance, especially women, who wore mop long skirts and corsets, and it was difficult to show their true strength.
Fashionable girls who love tennis began to crave comfortable and simple clothing, so some pioneers with a full sense of fashion and smell began to design elegant and convenient tennis clothes for these women.
The fertile land of tennis has begun to sprout quietly, and countless "fashion legends" have been born.
Tennis skirt
Tennis is an elegant sport, but you may wonder that the popular tennis skirt today is somewhat contrary to this "truth". Because the tennis skirt is short and fluffy, it can't be matched with the elegant eight poles.
However, after reading its predecessor, you will understand the connection.
In 1860, in Victorian England, the nobility fell in love with the fascinating sport of tennis, especially the aristocratic women who were obsessed with elegance.
But at the time, they could only play tennis in intricate long skirts and heavy flannel skirts, and fashion historian Keren Ben-Horin wrote in his book A History of Skirt Fashion: "Victorian women wore casual clothes when they played tennis in the 1880s and 1890s, including corsets, heavy underwear and petticoats, and wide skirts that rubbed the floor." As you can imagine, this dress makes them very unhappy.
There are also extremely high requirements for the color of clothing, and white must be worn.
Because white was a symbol of power at that time, elegant tennis with rich white clothing was the faith of the tennis courts at that time.
Another reason is that white is not easy to see sweat stains. Valerie Warren, author of Tennis Fashion: Costume Changes Over 125 Years, explains in the book that "athletes wear white to avoid sweat spots on colourful clothes."
At that time, it was completely unthinkable for women to sweat, let alone the rich and noble people who were mixed with high society, and they did not allow such an embarrassing situation to appear on themselves.
But with the advent of the movement boom, women were eager to get rid of the Victorian aesthetic, and they wanted to wear lighter and more sporty clothing.
It wasn't until the 1920s that the tennis court ushered in a fashion upheaval.
At the time, French tennis player Suzanne Lenglen wore a knee-length skirt and a headscarf designed by French designer Jean Patu at Wimbledon, a look that caused a sensation.
In an era when women's exposed legs will be sprayed with undignified, Lenglen's bold and avant-garde look makes people's patterns open.
Lenglen's style was sought after by high-society women and became the new tennis fashion.
During this period, fashion and comfort became the trend of tennis courts.
After tasting the sweetness of short skirts, the girls became more and more uncontrollable, and the length of the skirts was more demanding, and the skirts were constantly shortened to satisfy their desire for sports.
Because of this, in 1949, there was a "scandal" on the tennis court.
American tennis player Gertrude Moran wore a mini skirt and lace shorts designed by British fashion designer Ted Tin ling.
While she was exercising, the photographer deliberately lay flat on the ground in an attempt to capture the scenery under her skirt.
This scene was disgraced by the tennis world, but it also began to lead the tennis fashion of the 1950s.
Moran's mini skirt caught the attention of the girls, who began to pursue Ted Tin ling's fluffy skirt designed by Ted Tin ling, which was lightweight, comfortable and had a large space for movement.
Ted Tin ling, the most famous tennis wear designer of the time, claimed to be Amelia Bloomor of the century, saying that Brumo had exposed the instep of the foot, and I applied the same principle of exposure as her, only 0.6 meters more.
By the 1950s, the Ted Tin ling-style tennis skirt evolved into a pleated skirt, which retained the advantages of being easy to move, and was more beautiful and elegant in appearance.
Not only that, the short and small mini tennis skirt can show the good figure of the bodybuilder, and it is the last stubbornness of the girls when expressing beauty on the tennis court.
As the mini tennis skirt grew in popularity, it took to the streets straight from the tennis court and became the most trendy item in the fashion industry.
Taking to the streets, it is no longer limited to white and soft and comfortable materials, but has begun a variety of evolutionary paths.
Red, blue, yellow, black, prints, checks have begun to emerge in the streets, becoming the brightest landscape in the city's streetscape.
Polo shirt
Getting rid of the heavy clothing shackles is the consensus of all tennis fans, including men.
At first, men's tennis clothing, like women's, must be elegant and conservative, and they must not expose the skin in a large area, so men need to wear trousers, pullovers and knitted cardigans when playing tennis.
Ben Rosenberg's reference in Lifestyle: Tennis, in the 1920s, American tennis player Bill Tilden's preppy tennis style, understated white V-neck sweater and matching trousers, are still classics of men's fashion.
But how elegant it looks, how much it hurts to practice.
Especially after a lot of exercise, sweat wets the sweater, the sweater becomes heavy and sticky, and the athletes can't show their true strength at all.
Dragged down by clothes, the joy of playing tennis is less than half.
René Lacoste, a tennis player, is well versed in this ordeal.
René Lacoste is a legendary French tennis player who has created one legend after another in the history of tennis, winning his first tournament at the age of 17.
From 1925 to 1929, he won 10 Grand Slams at the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open, including seven singles and three doubles.
The more NB the results, the more resistant it is to the inconvenience of conservative tennis uniforms.
So he began to devote himself to the fashion circle, and the first major thing he did in the circle was to improve the tennis uniform.
While maintaining elegance, Lacoste adds lightweight and breathable properties to the tennis suit. The tennis suit designed by him appeared at the 1926 National Open, and the costume was made of a new breathable small embossed mesh fabric, which was light and elastic, and immediately captured the discerning eyes of the French.
This success gave Lacoste a place in the fashion industry, and polo shirts began to dominate tennis fashion.
Lacoste thus created the eponymous brand that features Polo shirts .
"Crocodile Brand - Lacoste".
In the next 20 years, polo shirts became the go-to outfit for tennis players.
Seeing that there was a big cake, many wizards began to come and share the food, and the leader of them was Fred Perry.
Fred Perry, a legendary British tennis player, officially launched his own costume design at the Wimbledon Open in 1952, and the brand logo adopts the "laurel garland", which is inspired by the original Wimbledon logo.
The brand's initial focus is still to maintain the elegance of tennis white polo short sleeves, without any fancy design, but a few years later, Fred Perry's design is very popular among young people, the brand is no longer limited to the court, began to launch polo shirts in different colors, and since then Polo shirts have also begun to go to the streets.
Polo shirts are really popular in the fashion circle, thanks to one person, that is, the designer -
Ralph Lauren。
In 1968, Ralph Lauren launched his first series of menswear "POLO RALPH LAUREN", and the reason why he used "POLO polo" as the theme of the costume was because Ralph Lauren believed that this sport immediately reminded people of aristocratic leisurely life.
At that time, the Polo shirt printed with the polo sports logo became one of the most popular men's clothing, it was elegant, formal, expensive, and was a must-have item for men to show their taste.
Since then, this costume that came out of the tennis court began to shine in the fashion industry.
Decent people who gallop on the tennis court are not only fascinated by tennis, they also want to make their body stretched and comfortable, but also through clothes to change the stereotype of sports, showing their elegance and bodybuilding posture.
This is the demand of tennis players, but also the needs of the general public.
All tennis fashion accurately pokes at the pain points of the public, and there is no doubt that it has taken to the streets from the sports field and become the most popular piece for fashionable elites.
Today, the combination of sports and fashion is still very strong, and it is bound to continue to affect.
Where is the next street fashion force with a sports soul, we will wait and see
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