Wimbledon ball girl outfit

[babychange]

I was very lucky to get tickets to Wimbledon yesterday and had great seats, right next to the umpire.

I then realised how short the skirts are for the ball girls. One girl in particular was very tall so her skirt kept riding up and she had very tiny shorts underneath. She kept tugging them to pull them down and looked very uncomfortable.

The boys had shorts that were mid knee and looked way more comfortable than the girls.

Why aren't the girls given an option to wear shorts? The female umpires were wearing long trousers!

Maybe the girls like wearing short shorts, who knows but they are 14/15 years old. Just felt so wrong watching a young girl running around with her bottom on show

Yes, they should be able to wear shorts....don't know if they can or not. But then I doubt the adult female players are allowed to wear shorts either. Tennis has some daft rules. So they are flashing their (sports knickers covered) bums a lot. But even more inappropriate for kids.

Wimbledon has some very 'traditional' rules and regulations. I think the players can only have sponsors on their clothing that take up at most 5% of the overall space and their clothing must be white. I presume there is even less chance of having the ball girls wear shorts.

Dont they wear skorts?

I also thought they wore skorts with cycling shorts inside and supplied by Wimbledon.

Women players can wear shorts. Martina Navratilova always wore shorts.

It makes no sense though, the uniforms are dictated at Wimbledon and supplied. No one would have been walking around with their bum on show.

Of course women players can wear shorts. Some of them are wearing short/dress/leggings combos now.
I don't know about the ball girl uniforms, no doubt they know what they know what they have to wear before they sign up.

no doubt they know what they know what they have to wear before they sign up.
As if that resolves the problem! If the rule is, wear this or you can't come that's still not fair.

Anyone see the BBC intro for the Tokyo Olympics. Female gymnasts turned into weird anime wank fodder.

They're skorts for girl, not skirts.

And if you look at them when they're lined up, there's little difference in length between boys shorts and girls skorts

But I suppose there will always be some outliers in terms of his well they fit (single supplier) so they might look skimpy on tall skinny boys and girls

I don't know about the ball girl uniforms, no doubt they know what they know what they have to wear before they sign up

Thr uniform is provided by Wimbledon, it’s a skort with built in cycling shorts, thr days of them running around , if they ever existed, with their bums visible like the op describes are long gone.

Yes bellini I’ve seen that and was pretty
Yuk
Back to Wimbledon I noticed some of the female staff within the crowds were wearing awful brown pleated skirts, can’t imagine why anyone would choose that over trousers.
The ball girls should def be allowed to wear shorts though!

www.theguardian.com/fashion/2015/jun/26/wimbledon-ballgirl-how-i-achieved-my-ambition-20-years-too-late

The uniform is a skort designed by Ralph Lauren.

I'm not interested in tennis but out of curiosity watched a bit just now- didn't look like what the OP described.

And female players are allowed to wear shorts.

Personally I would think a short tennis skirt would be more comfortable than baggy, knee length shorts over a long match on a hot day. In the game I watched briefly the men's shorts were obviously sweaty and sticking to them.

No it’s nothing like the op described so I’ve no idea what he or she’s posted or why, as it’s simply not true. Which makes me concerned about why someone is posting about young teens with their “bottoms on shoe”. It’s utterly not the case.

Yes it's skorts but....
I was sat at the front row on one of the courts.

There was a very tall girl there whose skort was very short and the skirt element of it kept riding up, so that you can see the 'short' element of it. Her bare bottom wasn't on show of course, but the shorts were really looked like pants on her. It was very uncomfortable to watch, especially when you know how young she is.

Regardless, the boys shorts were much much longer than any of the girls skorts.

It was obvious that the skorts that the girls wore were made to be much shorter than the shorts that boys wore.

What you wrote op is not true. They don’t wear skirts. They wear skorts which have in built cycling shorts underneath, she wouldn’t have been wearing “tiny shorts that she had to keep tugging down” nor would she have been running around with her “bottom on show” . It’s televised we can all see what they wear. The uniforms are provided.

@Ghislainedefeligonde

Yes bellini I’ve seen that and was pretty Yuk Back to Wimbledon I noticed some of the female staff within the crowds were wearing awful brown pleated skirts, can’t imagine why anyone would choose that over trousers. The ball girls should def be allowed to wear shorts though!

I think the brown skirts belong to army personnel and are worn on formal occasions.They help to steward at Wimbledon, though as volunteers not line judges!

Having had teenage girls & skorts, I’d suggest that some girls might have said they were a size 8 & that the sportswear size 8 was too small. Too small a size & the skort stops giving good coverage.

I think the brown skirts belong to army personnel and are worn on formaloccasions.Theyhelp to steward at Wimbledon, though as volunteers not line judges!

I'm not interested in Wimbledon and even I knew that. The description obviously sounded like a uniform. And why this obsession that every woman is desperate to wear trousers?

www.forces.net/evergreen/photos-day-life-wimbledons-military-stewards

I’ve been a ball girl at Wimbledon. It was in 2017 but I doubt very much that the rules have changed. The uniforms this year look pretty much the same as the one I wore. We weren’t given the option of wearing shorts, girls have to wear a skirt but as has been pointed out, they have built-in shorts and I never felt exposed in it. If I’d been given a shorts option I wouldn’t have chosen them. I think the skirts look cuter and I suspect they’re more comfortable. I never wore the boys shorts but they looked like a more restrictive chino style material to me. Not the most practical for all the crouching and bending down that’s involved I reckon.

There’s so many traditions at Wimbledon that they like to uphold. I think generally tennis and skirts kinda go together. Even in this day and age I don’t think you’ll be seeing ball girls in shorts any time soon.

Perhaps the girl you are talking about just had an ill-fitting skirt.