Well done, Nike: Those tennis T-shirts you made for Wimbledon were smashing. Too bad they didn't fit the description of a dress.
Oops …
Team Swoosh is making amends on its too-short skirts to meet with approval of the austere authorities of taste and etiquette in grass-court tennis. British news reports carried images of players with their delicates on display … and others wearing leggings.
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Wimbledon is the strictest of tennis tournaments in apparel rules, and not just in mandating clothes that come somewhere in the Ivory soap range: 99.