It's another year and Wimbledon has come around again.  My interest in sports in general is unsurprisingly minimal but for some reason tennis has me hooked in a way that is quite inexplicable seeing as I don't play it particularly well either, yet any old match will have me glued to the screen for hours on end.  This year though, a more sensible explanation for my tennis fixation, would be that the style stakes at Wimbledon have been ramped up, so much so that newspapers are commenting on what players are wearing as much as how they are faring in the competition.  Actually, that's not the real explanation either but it is quite hilarious to see people making a fuss about *gasp* a pair of shorts on a woman.  Tutus and white trenches on court, rumours of kilts and Federer's preppy vs. Nadal's pirate look; all the sort of 'style' drivel that are cluttering up the back pages of newspapers and also Vogue.com. 

The main story centres around Maria Sharapova donning a pair of tailored shorts for matches, along with a matching tuxedo bibbed top.  Designed by Nike, the influences behind the outfit was supposedly Savile Row tailoring and to add strength to that, the warm up outfit consists of a pair of tuxedo-style subtle pin-striped trousers as well as a white two-piece suit.  I'm cowering as I type this but the press image of Sharapova in the whole warm-up outfit is actually making me think that it's worth investigating.  Something about the sheen of the jacket, the way the trousers flow, the loucheness of it all...
 

Of course, all of this is hampered by the golden Nike tick.  The US site only sells the shorts and top but apparently this is all on sale at the Nike store on Oxford Circus, a place I haven't frequented before unless standing under the front of the store for rain shelter or running through it to get to Topshop counts.  A peek won't hurt though.  You can be reassured that no exercising will be involved if I do end buying something and a pair of killer brogues and heavy doses of styling up would be applied.