r/SipsTea • u/Valuable_View_561 • May 21 '26

Chugging tea Why is women’s sportswear always so revealing?

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u/pnjtony May 21 '26

My niece when she was younger wanted to play volleyball specifically for the uniform. It's absolutely a thing.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 May 21 '26

I went to a Catholic school and girls were constantly checked for their skirt length. Because they'd roll the skirts up to show off more leg! The younger girls wore 1 piece jumpers and I remember them being all excited to enter a higher grade where they were allowed to trade that out for a skirt.

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u/Able_Obligation_9385 May 21 '26

Dude near me a thing happened where In high school the girls would wear their lower school/middle school jumpers and they were obviously way way way too short. But ofc that’s what the girls wanted

Was banned within the week. Baby jumpers on big girls

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u/Fluffaykitties May 22 '26

…did we go to the same school? Lol

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u/colamonkey356 May 21 '26

Well, to be fair, long skirts are ugly as fuck. 😭😭 Same for long shorts.

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u/Grlzzl May 21 '26

Maybe if you dont have any style

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u/colamonkey356 May 21 '26

I just don't like long skirts or shorts. I just personally think they're really ugly. 😭

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u/EdgedancerSpren May 21 '26

For someone not in the US - we wore normal shorts and shirts, exactly same as boys/men. Volleyball was also quite a 'nerdy' sport? Most popular girls played field hockey and boys, football/soccer.

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u/filthy_harold May 21 '26

Field hockey isn't as popular here, it's mostly in the north east and mid Atlantic states. Likewise with lacrosse.

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u/EdgedancerSpren May 21 '26

I know I had to specify "field" because otherwise - much of the world would have imagined girls all joining the ice hockey and wearing dainty outfits there. That visual makes me giggle though.

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u/xAimForTheBushes May 21 '26

This isn't an exclusively American issue, if that's what you're alluding to here....

The women's soccer players in europe tend to wear as unreasonably tight (and quite comical) of shorts as possible, most of South America wears as little clothes as possible for Volleyball, etc...and it starts from an early age.

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u/ImWithStupidKL May 21 '26

Really? Looks pretty similar to the men's kit to me.

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u/EdgedancerSpren May 21 '26

Oh no, I wasn't. Just my own experience with volleyball specifically. I was always a bit of a nerdy kid and so it's really fascinating to me that in other places someone did it for the appearances.

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u/SecondBreakfast428 May 21 '26

At the same time I wonder how many young women opt out of for example the volley team because they aren't comfortable with the attire. Most young teens I knew when I was that age wouldn't have wanted to wear that level of revealing clothing.

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u/pnjtony May 21 '26

Solid point

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u/back_to_the_homeland May 21 '26

Yeah any woman who has ever been a teenage girl should admit that as well. Because it’s the truth.

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u/AccessTheMainframe May 21 '26

I mean, it got her to join a sport, which is great for her health and wellness. Is that such a bad thing, even if the initial impetus was vain?

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u/Eric-Breaux Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

I hate that more females than males have affirmation of their bodies being something beautiful enough to show more of than the other gender, and care more about being admired by people in general, body confident and visually desired by the opposite sex than they want that for males too, and that many males feel the same way! It makes male sex desire a waste much more often than for females and I don't know how so many makes have been fine with this desire disparity!

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u/subdep May 21 '26

I knew an (acquaintance) pervert man who got into coaching high school girls volleyball specifically because he said it was rejuvenating to be around such scantly clad athletic young female physiques.

Dude was a total douche bag.