Venus Williams: African-American female tennis legend. Headlines are screaming about her no-nonsense approach to tennis fashion, claiming her dresses are "too short." The latest, with a pie-crust top and Monet-like skirt, below:
Critics say she's a distraction/not taking the game seriously. I call shenanigans. She's taking it more seriously than her competition hopes to imagine: she's making tennis into more than a game; it's now an expressive outlet for her, a boundary breaker. Quoted, she remarks on the above dress creation and inspiration from Alice in Wonderland: "It's kind of about a surprise, because when Alice goes down the...rabbit hole, she finds all these things that are so surprising. This outfit is about having a surprise in tennis (a dress) and kind of, you know, showing some skin and then just having a print. Prints don't happen that often in tennis. So it's called the Wonderland dress. It was fun."
So I say, let her whatever the hell she wants. She's not indecent (note the flesh-colored shorts). And, need I mention, she's a seven-time Grand Slam champ. Go, Venus. Do your thang.
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