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"ref": "1969 May 26, Sports Illustrated, volume 30, number 21, page 92",
"text": "Durable lightness—that’s new Jantzen courtwear.",
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"ref": "1972 July 29, Sophy Burnham, “Tennis: A whole new ball game”, in Saturday Review, volume LV, number 31, page 46, column 1",
"text": "(Yet, ironically, many of the newer, less well-heeled players seem to be even more dedicated to white attire than do veteran players, and tennis’s arrivés are often offended by other hues of courtwear.)",
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"ref": "1977 March 7, Marilyn Thelen, “Sports is not only how you play the game but what you wear”, in The Christian Science Monitor, page B16",
"text": "Sportswear looks continue to influence women's courtwear with wrapped or knife-pleated skirts, bolero tie-blouses worn over bandeau bras, and sweatery knits.",
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"ref": "1981, Bonnie August, Ellen Count, “Dress Thin to Win: Active Sportswear”, in The Complete Bonnie August’s Dress Thin System: 642 + Ways to Correct Figure Faults with Clothes, New York, N.Y.: Rawson, Wade Publishers, Inc., page 200",
"text": "Basic Dress Thin courtwear for any lower-torso proportion problem: smoothly tailored shorts (left) with vertical pockets, a flat fly, no cuffs—nothing to break the line or create bulk below the waist.",
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"ref": "1996 March 25, Susan Martin, “Tennis: Whites to brights”, in The Buffalo News, page C-8",
"text": "In Between “courtwear” is a blend of cotton, polyester and Spandex that creates a layered look under skirts and tops.",
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"ref": "1997 September 30, Malcolm Parry, “In the guestbook at Duthie’s 40th birthday”, in The Vancouver Sun, volume 112, number 121, page B5",
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"ref": "1998 November 15, Elaine Glusac, “The athletic aesthetic”, in Chicago Tribune",
"text": "“People are dressing more casual on a daily basis and they come to us looking for clean, classic athletic clothes that are comfortable,” says Andrea Huff, apparel marketing director for Reebok, which outfits [Venus] Williams in nightclub-worthy courtwear including silver shifts.",
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"ref": "2011 June 20, “Tennis brights”, in Evening Standard, page 28",
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"ref": "1996, Bernard Schwartz, Decision: How the Supreme Court Decides Cases, New York, N.Y., Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 20",
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"ref": "1996, E. L. Wyrick, Power in the Blood, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, page 60",
"text": "Forty-five minutes later I walked into the courthouse in Braxton. […] White was dressed in a white turtleneck shirt adorned with three gold necklaces. That courtwear was a poor enough choice, but was boundlessly overshadowed by his coat.",
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"ref": "1999 November 22, Clare Dyer, “A very public wigging”, in The Guardian, page 11",
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"ref": "2002 April 26, Paul Cheston, “Most dispiriting trial”, in Evening Standard, page 4",
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},
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},
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},
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},
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