We’re wrapping up Wimbledon this week with our favorite face-off, the worst dressed. I know you’re eager to start casting your stones, so we’ll dispense with the preamble and jump straight to the photos…
Nominee #1: Maria Sakkari
It’s not easy to make the uber-fit Greek star look bad, but Adidas manages to pull it off with this sad, shapeless onesie. I don’t need to tell you what’s wrong here — you’ve got eyes. In fact, the good people at Getty Images found it so heinous they posted few usable photos, so I had to go to the Adidas page to grab a more representative shot:
And wouldn’t you know this laughably ill-conceived getup is the most expensive item on that page, priced at a decidedly ambitious $140.
Nominee #2: Jelena Ostapenko
In what may be a face-off first, Adidas scores two nominations in the same poll. Ostapenko’s skirt would be fine, or at least nomination-safe, paired with just about anything else. No, really, anything at all. A Fruit of the Loom undershirt would be better than this.
(Now, you won’t believe me, but I swear I’m not making this up. I wrote that bit about the undershirt before I came across the following photo:
See? I was right. Love that.) (Also, Ostapenko looks super cute in this picture.)
But instead of Fruit of the Loom we have this bizarre mismatch of dainty pleats with a busy, boxy, checked polo buttoned up to the throat. Wtf? I despised this shirt on the male players. In fact, I kept rewinding men’s matches so I could show my very patient daughter its ugliness from different angles, each time thinking that surely this is the worst the shirt can look, but no. Ostapenko’s combo takes it to an 11.
The Latvian often thumbs her nose at tennis fashion, and she isn’t sponsored by Adidas. Maybe she’s just having some fun at the company’s expense.
Nominee #3: The write-in candidate
Another face-off first!
I almost slotted Coco Gauff in here because the appliqués on her top were a bit limp and floppy.
Overall, though, she looked majestic in white, and I would have had a full-on revolt on my hands had I nominated her.
(On the other hand, what’s with the belt and belt loops? And isn’t the skirt fabric a little stiff and sporty compared to the dressy top? It’s almost like they were designed by different people. I better stop looking at this photo before I change my mind again.)
So who deserves the third spot? Who have I overlooked? We’ve never used the write-in feature for these polls. I hope someone tests it out so we can see how it works, although I find it hard to believe there’s a worthier nominee than Sakkari and Ostapenko.
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