Rollerblading in white trousers was a nonsense

[mumda]

Sport is making women feel more comfortable by allowing women's football teams to wear black shorts not white.

The whole theme of Tampax adverts when I grew up was this idea you could do the most wonderful things (rollerblading etc) in white shorts whilst bleeding.

There's an article on the BBC news about it and someone has just said 'if women ran sport it'd have been changed sooner '

Would it?

[DerangedViper]

I'm surprised this is coming up an as issue now.

If you look back at the Euros kit from 2016, there are three options, and the shorts are white, red and black (both men and women). And the main promo pic from the 2019 World Cup was red shorts. So it's not been the case that women have had to wear white shorts all the time until now.

The white shirts have been worn with either white or blue shorts in the past (maybe red too, but I can't find pix of that)

Or are they completely jettisoning white shorts as an option from the strip completely?

[GCautist]

Absolutely!
Omg i hated tennis whites. Those short skirts were horrific if you had a period and weren’t ready to use tampons yet. The rules were so strict, no shorts allowed of any colour under the skirts.

Gymnastics was awful too. No underwear under leotards, when our team lead got her first period at a competition she had to go on with it anyway despite the staining. It was awful for her but she had no choice in the matter.

[howdoesatoastermaketoast]

well in my experience yes if it's had been women making decisions it would have, because whilst women can generally be super squeamish about discussing menstruation at the first opportunity for a uniform redesign they'd have been here are three options and one women would have said "we should eliminate the design with the white shorts and go with one of the others?" and there would have been a small pensive pause followed by a chorus of 'absolutely'.