The English women now play in blue shorts and no longer in white shorts. Image: dpa
Skirts like pants? It doesn’t matter what is worn during sports. More and more female athletes decide how they want to dress – and rebel against tradition.
In April this year, the FA, the English Football Association, unveiled their new kits – breaking with tradition. Three months later you could see the change on the pitch: the English women played in dark blue shorts. This change went uncommented by the FA, but not by the press. Because it was not an aesthetic, but an emancipatory decision.
For a long time, players like Beth Mead, but also the FA’s director of women’s football, Sue Campbell, had advocated darker shorts to relieve footballers of the worry of visible menstruation during a game. Other teams made the same decision: The teams from the USA, Nigeria, France and Canada also wore colored instead of white at the World Cup.
