For many players, the netball dress is a ‘favourite outfit ever’. But until now the sport’s feminine uniforms have excluded some while annoying many more
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It’s form-fitting, thigh-grazing, unforgiving and perceived by many as representative of a narrow version of heteronormative white femininity in Australia.
But despite my fiercely feminist values – or perhaps paradoxically, given netball helped build those values – I adore every netball dress I’ve worn. And over a lifetime in a game built by women, for women, there have been plenty.
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