| While tennis clothes were once all pretty similar, you | | | | comfortable, even when the advantage is slight. |
| have a lot of stylish options when picking out tennis | | | | Modern tennis clothes are designed to allow athletes |
| attire these days. In the early days of tennis in England, | | | | to feel unencumbered as they jump, twist, cut, and |
| tennis was played on lawns and the players wore | | | | swing simultaneously in various combinations. This is |
| formal clothing. Even women wore full-length dresses | | | | why modern tennis clothes fit well, yet loosely. They |
| as they played tennis. Nearly all tennis players wore | | | | are lightweight and don't hold moisture. This also helps |
| all-white, cotton outfits. Today, tennis players wear all | | | | keep the tennis players dry and cool. |
| sorts of stylish tennis clothes made of all sorts of | | | | The more clothing technology advances, the more |
| synthetic fabrics and in all sorts of colors. | | | | tennis clothes adapt to this technology to give the |
| The changes in the tennis clothes being worn during | | | | tennis players the greatest possible advantages. Most |
| each era could be matched to the fashions of each | | | | professional tennis players wear synthetic fabrics for |
| era. In the 1970s and 1980s, for example, most men | | | | their various advantages. Even recreational tennis |
| wore short-legged shorts and a polo shirt. Females in | | | | players are beginning to enjoy the cooling effects and |
| this same era wore short tennis skirts. In the 1990s and | | | | movement freedoms provided by synthetic tennis |
| 2000s, most men began wearing long-legged, loose | | | | clothing. For amateurs, the difference may not be seen |
| shorts and loose shirts. Women have also been | | | | as directly in performance as in feeling more |
| wearing a wide variety of tennis wear, including | | | | comfortable when they play, which indirectly leads to |
| long-legged shorts with t-shirts or miniskirts with t-shirts. | | | | greater performance. |
| While in the major competitions there may be a color | | | | You can expect these trends in tennis clothes to |
| mandate for clothing, generally white, at most | | | | continue. As new fashions hit the general marketplace, |
| competitions tennis clothes can be found on tennis | | | | they will find their way onto the tennis court, but |
| players in vary wide variety of colors. | | | | framed in the latest technologies to help the tennis |
| The style found in tennis clothes is not just based on | | | | player perform at optimal levels. It is about feeling |
| being fashionable. A lot of the design of the modern | | | | comfortable when you are playing tennis. Part of |
| tennis clothes is based on allowing the tennis players to | | | | feeling comfortable for many athletes is the ability to |
| move in a fluid, free motion. Tennis has become a | | | | express a sense of who they are through their fashion |
| very competitive sport, where every conceivable | | | | choices. Even tennis equipment is beginning to |
| advantage, no matter how small is taken seriously. | | | | influenced as much by fashion as it is by the latest |
| Mentally this makes the tennis player feel more | | | | technologies. |