This Skirt Won't Work!: How Women Athletes Changed Their Clothes and Changed the Game -- Jennifer Cooper, Hardcover

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This Skirt Won't Work!: How Women Athletes Changed Their Clothes and Changed the Game -- Jennifer Cooper, HardcoverImagine 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

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ISBN: 9780358141242

You'll discover how a path of surrender and self-sacrifice can lead you from a place of turmoil and confusion to a place of hope and peace