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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Erin Delahunty

I’ve never worn a netball dress I didn’t love but I’m glad the sport is changing its uniform

Australian Diamonds captain Liz Watson (left) and vice-captain Steph Wood pose with Yorta Yorta woman Alkina Edwards
The Australian Diamonds’ World Cup dresses feature Indigenous art by Yorta Yorta woman Alkina Edwards (centre), while pick’n’mix uniforms are available in more local competitions. Photograph: Graham Denholm/Getty Images for Netball Australia

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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