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The game has also These Colors Don’t Read Confederate Flag Shirt long had a connection to the rich. “It was one of the first sports that wealthy, upper middle-class men and women played together,” says Robert J Lake, author of A Social History of Tennis in Britain. “People tend to look to the rich and famous for new trends.” Gary Armstrong, editor of sport and fashion magazine CircleZeroEight, says this association with wealth and glamour helped forge the connection with fashion houses. Tennis players were ‘good enough’ to wear high fashion, whereas footballers weren’t,” he says. “There’s probably a higher percentage of tennis players who have endorsement deals with watch and perfume brands. Beauty brands like tennis because it’s not too sweaty.” The UK’s Emma Raducanu is a Dior ambassador; Jannik Sinner, the highest ranked Italian player in history, works with Gucci, and Carlos Alcaraz, 2023 men’s winner at Wimbeldon, is in adverts for Louis Vuitton. Though the players are known for their style, tennis’s dress codes remain strict. The French Open banned catsuits after Williams wore hers. Wimbledon’s rule that players should wear mostly white has been in place since the tournament began in 1877. It was tweaked last year to allow coloured undershorts to address female players’ anxiety about playing while they had their period.
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Other labels are going These Colors Don’t Read Confederate Flag Shirt a little deeper: Wales Bonner’s varsity jackets pay tribute to the historically Black Howard University and the first Congress of Black Writers and Artists held at the Sorbonne in 1956; one features studs inspired by the kora, a west African string instrument. For other brands, such as Gap x Palace, the reason for adopting the garment might be a little more utilitarian. “A varsity jacket is a really easy piece when you want to do a collab,” says Pelly. “You can easily be like, ‘Oh, let’s just put out a varsity jacket and put our patch on it and call it a day.” The varsity jacket’s perpetual spot at the heart of American style is easy to understand. “It keeps coming back because it was born cool, right?” says Clemente. The guys wearing them at Harvard were the cool kids writing the rules – these guys in the Ivy League set the trends for American menswear for the first 50 years of fashion,” she says. “It’s perennially cool.”
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