Anyone forTennis.......Wimbledon 2013

[Sir Velo]

No explanation apart from - just fashion. Even gents like me of advanced years at my tennis club have succumbed to the baggy trend. I still have a few specimens of the tighter variety lurking at the back of drawers. To turn up wearing them would doubtless invite the same derision as wielding a wooden racquet.

A similar fashion also seems to pervade swimwear where most blokes seem to favour extreme floppy shorts rather than traditional trunks.

There is actually a perfectly good sporting reason for the longer shorts: they provide a degree of extra warmth, and thereby protection, to the hamstrings. Anyone who has ever taken part in any serious sporting activity will know that when these babies pop (or cramp) the pain is exquisite. It is also game over (in every sense).

[Mary Chambers]

I think the men looked much nicer when they had shorter shorts and longer hair.

[Sir Velo]

I think the men looked much nicer when they had shorter shorts and longer hair.

Sexist!

[Flosshilde]

There is actually a perfectly good sporting reason for the longer shorts: they provide a degree of extra warmth, and thereby protection, to the hamstrings.

I've always thought that hamstrings were fairly low down on the leg - between calf & ankle. Which would require plus-fours, if not actual trousers, to keep warm.

[amateur51]

Sexist!

In what way?

[amateur51]

I've always thought that hamstrings were fairly low down on the leg - between calf & ankle. Which would require plus-fours, if not actual trousers, to keep warm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamstring

[Richard Tarleton]

On the subject of sexism, Federer was apparently told off because the orange soles of his shoes violated the dress code, but Serena Williams' generous orange/purple knickers seem to have got through OK. Why is this?

[amateur51]

On the subject of sexism, Federer was apparently told off because the orange soles of his shoes violated the dress code, but Serena Williams' generous orange/purple knickers seem to have got through OK. Why is this?

Perhaps the dress code does not extend to matters of lingerie?

[salymap]

Perhaps the dress code does not extend to matters of lingerie?

I saw no orange and purple knickers. The mix of colours would have worried me but I was watching the tennis, not Serena's pants.

[eighthobstruction]

I must admit ....I constantly notice lingerie....<snigger>....

[Richard Tarleton]

Perhaps the dress code does not extend to matters of lingerie?

It's really difficult to classify them as mere lingerie, as they are such a prominent part of the ensemble .

Good luck to the impeccably attired Laura Robson, second on court no 2.

[Flosshilde]

I was watching the tennis, not Serena's pants.

Haven't the ladies pants (rather than their grunts) been a focus of attention since 'Gussie' Moran flashed hers in 1949?

[eighthobstruction]

certainly have !!!....

[salymap]

Haven't the ladies pants (rather than their grunts) been a focus of attention since 'Gussie' Moran flashed hers in 1949?

I've neve been to Wimbledon, although most of my family have and didn't have TV back in the 1940s.

I dimly remember something in the papers though

[Nick Armstrong]

I must admit ....I constantly notice lingerie....<snigger>....

mere lingerie

Sounds like 8tho doesn't consider there to be anything 'mere' about it...