When a tennis skirt becomes your favorite and most worn objects in your wardrobe and you are enough for it on days you don’t even pick up a racket, you know you have found a winner. The Space Court Slip skirt In the brand’s signature Red Colorway, it is the piece for me: a former parent editor and lifelong non-athletes who tried tennis last year as an excuse to wear their clothes. Sure, I was hoping to get new skills and maybe even new friends, but the opportunity to dress in stylish sportswear was 100 percent that pulled me to tennis. In fact, I created a Pinterest Board with sought -after pieces and inheritance pictures as early as 2023, one year before “Challengers” met even theaters.
I felt nervous about my first lesson last summer and put on a toe Nike court. I have always gained confidence from my wardrobe and knew I could look good, even if my forehand didn’t. After six months to meet the courts several times a week, I surprised myself and became captain for a Usta team. Finally, I had a legitimate reason to refill thoughts, tees and skirts, but despite Rise of TenniscoreMost collections are disappointing and completely interchangeable. Basic, uninspired, and certainly lacked some edge, the range of a white pleated tennis skirts on the market looks more like a suit than real workout clothes. I wanted eye -catching clothes that would motivate me during training and look good wherever I took me afterwards. It seemed that no brands, from older sportswear giants to smaller retailers of Athleisure, were innovative for the modern player. May I be Naomi Osaka to wear something unique?
A few months ago I stopped browsing my Instagram Explore page on an action shot of a woman in a light red top and a white skirt with a caption that reads: “In love and sports, the lines are blur.” The photo Was from a new tennis brand called Space who claimed it was here to shake up things. Keeps my hopes, I was enough for the Space founder, Amanda GreeleyAbout the “Revolution” which she hoped to be able to bring to the racket sportswear. “When I thought about wanting to do this a few years ago and looked around, I felt like many of the larger, older, more established brands and suppliers of tennis clothes had become really boring,” she says.
Thankfully, Specce delivers its bold and distinguishable social aesthetics. The first capsule style, the mix-and-match collection is well thought out, and develops smartly developed and exceptionally lightweight material for high performance. The unique color palette offers pops of red puncture of a structured white waffle fabric and black separates as at the second gaze is actually the darkest shade of green. A knitted tennis skirt is even reversible from sky blue to moss green. But best of all, each garment has elegant, modern lines, and offers a real new tennis style with an underlying dose of energy and sex appel that every other collection seems to be missing.
“Calculating that the intersection of sports, fashion and functionality is such a fun puzzle, especially now that we all live in this perennial Athleisure space when we dressed,” she says. “Athleisure sounds a little lazy to me, as if you dumped something on and have given up, while sportswear is sexy and intentional.”
Greleley wants Specce to nod for the sport’s iconic heritage, but bring the garments in a fresh, modern time. “So often the visual” we are at the Country Club in our white skirt that drinks a Spritz, “and it is just so posed and lacks life. We make the brand feel very vivid and fun.” In its mission, Specce explains that “This is tools for people who move differently, who understand that sports, like life, are about timing, rhythm and occasional well -placed action.” Country Club -White is condemned.
As may not be a surprise, Greleley related to my passion for tennis skirts and says she carries them as her own gate to the sport in just four years old. “Tennis offers an alternative workout,” she says. “The opportunity to wear sweet dresses and skirts is fun and can translate into something you might just want on Saturday that goes around.” Validation, finally.
When he comes up, Specce will launch his first tennis dress with striped terry straps, racket bags, socks, performance hats and outerwear. As for me, I have gained a reputation at my racket club for both my Pinterest-worthy tennis wardrobe and my cursed. If you also want some prominent equipment, buy my favorite pieces below.