Why Don't You Buy ... a Tennis Sweater?

01.08.2022, 11:57 harpersbazaar.com

Тennis isn't so much a sport as a culture—with its own rules, aesthetics, and nomenclature. The rise in popularity of the tennis skirt has been well documented, but minis aren't for everyone. Now, the tennis sweater is having its moment in the sun (courtside and beyond), but it's not the preppy style of the official handbook variety. Millennials don't join country clubs anyway. "A tennis sweater harkens back to another time—the faded glory of the country club, prep-school set," Katie Warner Johnson, CEO of Carbon38, tells BAZAAR.com. "However, today, as we all have a habit of standing dress codes on their heads and carving our own styling paths, the tennis sweater works its way into our wardrobes as a contrast, almost as a costume as we try on (literally) the romanticized version of a past that may not have much relevance today."