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Sportswear has become an integral part of everyday dress. Using examples to illustrate your discussion, demonstrate how and why certain items of sportswear have become fashion items.
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Sportswear has become an integral part of everyday dress. Using examples to illustrate your discussion, demonstrate how and why certain items of sportswear have become fashion items. Sportswear can be defined as 'clothes for sport or informal wear.' The Oxford dictionary (1992). This definition is enough to suggest that sports clothing is no longer worn only during sport. Through the twentieth century a shift has occurred in which sports clothing is also worn as informal and fashion wear. It probably was not until the nineteen seventies that sportswear had a major impact on the fashion world. During the first half of the twentieth century sports were dominated by men. Although women did participate, their role in society was mainly centred on the house and family. As a result sportswear for women was slow to catch on. Sport functioned mainly as a social and leisure activity, and unlike today was...
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