Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Where's the brown?

So it's time to pick out uniforms for my tennis team this year. As I browse the internet and my coach's catalogs, I simply cannot find any athletic clothier that has any brown! Brown is a warmer tone than black or gray and looks great on a wider variety of people! It also doesn't show sweat marks as much as gray's and light pastel colors would.

Lehigh is pretty lenient with what they allow us to order because of the lack of brown apparel, so in the past few years, we've ordered white Nike border skirts with a black border and a white matching top. Last year, we got really creative and ordered the Nike Sharapova Wimbledon dress in all white and screen printed in brown "Lehigh Tennis" on the left skirt pleat. Plus, a more simple Nike white racer back top with "Lehigh" screened in brown across the chest and a black skirt.

I'm running out of ideas as I continue to look for a stylish, yet affordable uniform for my team that satisfies Lehigh's colors! Any ideas or tips?

Right now, I've decided on a Nike woven skirt that actually looks brown in the catalog - it's dark burgandy - which I think will do. Ideally, we'd like to pair it with a Nike white racer back tank, similar to the ones we used last year. For our traveling uniform, we want to get a white dress, but are still having difficulty finding a good one.

Here's what we've come up with so far:




paired with:




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1 comment:

  1. Hey Liz, I agree with the brown difficulties! I did find some 'tan & brown' and muted gold in Tail...Not so cool for the young, hip generations in styling, however. I would recommend you stay with the black & white because...your arch rivals are burgundy!

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