Sania Mirza Clothing Controversy
Friday, September 16, 2005
Tennis is supposed to be about hitting that ball over the net, but for the women, it’s more about designing new outfits to wear on court. You can count on seeing Maria Sharapova in her latest, and usually interesting, outfit whenever a big tournament comes around. Mirza, on the other hand, generally is seen wearing a skirt longer than most and a polo shirt. Mirza is a practicing Muslim, and by wearing “short” skirts, she is showing off too much skin and looking too provocative. She’s winning matches and making a name for herself in the tennis world, she wouldn’t be able to do that in a salwar kameez.
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She is the uprising star. She refused to change the dress in spite of threats to her life by Islamic Jihadists wanting her to play tennis in a dress that covers her whole body and face.
Sania Mirza would have found life remarkably more straightforward had she been born in an era when women players wore nothing less than an ankle-length dress, bustle, tie, hat and gloves. But when the Indian goes on court in a thigh-length skirt -- hardly unusual amid a generation of scantily clad players -- it can be construed as a message of defiance