This Skirt Won't Work!: How Women Athletes Changed Their Clothes and Changed the Game Vanina Starkoff From the acclaimed author-illustrator of

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This Skirt Won't Work!: How Women Athletes Changed Their Clothes and Changed the Game Vanina Starkoff From the acclaimed author-illustrator ofImagine trying to play tennis in a long dress, or swimming laps wearing heavy petticoats! That's how it used to be for girls and women in sports until a few found a better way! See how women like cyclist Kittie Knox, swimmer Annette Kellerman, and Albertine LePensee and her Canadian hockey teammates flouted convention and risked scandal to wear things they could move in. They sewed their own knickerbockers, donned sleek swimsuits, and shortened