从19世纪初到1960年，探索女性运动装设计师是如何游刃有余地驾驭时尚、功能和礼节的。

本书记录了近两个世纪以来女性运动装的演变。书中选取了科迪斯、彭德尔顿和斯伯丁以及可可·香奈儿（Coco Chanel）、克莱尔·麦卡德尔（Claire McCardell）和让·巴杜（Jean Patou）等人的服装，在时尚史和女权主义的交叉点上，《运动时尚》强调了新技术和不断变化的社会风尚对女性运动服装的非凡影响。它从泳装到运动鞋，探讨了我们今天所知道的女性运动服装的基本形式是如何在女性获得更多自由的时期发展起来的。书中包括运动休闲服饰的全彩插图，以及杂志插图和档案图片。

在专题章节中，作者从旅行到健美操，从摩托车到长廊，研究了妇女进入体育界的方式，以及允许妇女自由行走和参加以前**于男性的运动的服装实例，探讨了设计师如何应对并鼓励人们在公共海滩和游泳池接受裸露的皮肤，以及寒冷天气下的时尚是如何在斜坡和冰面上流行起来的。在此之前，从未有过如此大规模地详细介绍定义女性作为观众和运动员角色的服装。

Discover how the designers of women's sporting attire navigated the worlds of fashion, function, and propriety, from the beginning of the 19th century to 1960.

This book offers a stunning visual record of the evolution of women's sporting attire over nearly two centuries. With selections from Keds, Pendleton, and Spalding and garments by Coco Chanel, Claire McCardell, and Jean Patou, among many others, it features familiar names in fashion, as well as significant rediscoveries. At the intersection of the history of fashion and feminism, Sporting Fashion highlights the extraordinary impact of new technologies and evolving social mores on women's clothing for sport. It explores how the basic forms of women's sportswear we know today--from swimsuits to sneakers--

were developed during a time when women were achieving more freedom. Full color illustrations of sport and leisure ensembles are included, along with magazine spreads and archival images.

In thematic sections, the authors examine the ways women entered into the sporting world--

from traveling to calisthenics, motorcycling to promenading. The book looks at examples of clothing that allowed women to walk freely and compete in sports previously restricted to men. It explores how designers reacted to and encouraged the growing acceptance of exposed skin at public beaches and pools--and how cold weather fashion made its way onto the slopes and ice. Never before have the garments that defined women's roles as both spectators and athletes been presented on this scale and in such detail.