Fashion statement: Venus Williams's questionable U.S. Open outfit

I love the Williams sisters, so it pained me, but I had to vote "terrible." Pants are good!

Don't care much what she wears, as long as it doesn't take away from play. I watched most of the match, and she spend half the time pulling her skirt back down. It looked liked she had a hard time moving around, which probably is not a good thing. There's a reason why other players wear loose skirts...

She's got more than just a toe, thats the entire camel hoof down there... Get some pants!

It's trashy looking!

I watched the match and I have to say that the whole pulling and tugging at the outfit was really distracting. Tacky outfit.

Somebody get the net.

Somebody get the net.

Posted by: curmudgeon6 | September 7, 2010 3:27 PM

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Any outfit that requires adjusting between every point is useless--running around in that thing made it ride up around her waist and she had to pull it down between every point. Just dumb.

I thought that Queen Liz is the Pantless One. Venus Williams is an usurper! Begone, Pantless Pretender!!!!

I think if it was like what track runners where I wouldn't care but if she had to fidgit every time that'd be annoying. To sum:

conceptually fine, poor execution...

For many years I've wished for the pantless look to be in style and it's finally here!

As stated above, the real problem is that the da^n dress doesn't fit her correctly. If she were out nightclubbing, it'd be terrific. Quite frankly, it's not all that flattering. Then again, no one has ever confused the sisters' clothing designs with Dior or Chanel. They both need to find some way to minimize the caboose that they both possess, esp. Serena.

She looks trashy all of the time, so the pants didn't make much difference.

Still wearing more than she would on a beach or at a pool.

Who cares? Who has so little life that this would be a big deal for them?

I'd rather see Serena wearing it, instrad of Venus...

It looks like she misunderstood the term U.S. "Open"!

Let's hope this doesn't give South African "female" runner Caster Semenya any ideas. Could get real scary.

Honestly---this outfit isn't that bad. I think the photo you got is when the wind was blowing up a storm and caught the hem.

It's really fine and in line with almost everybody else's outfit. Now, it's not the outfit in France which was kind of a hoot But this one was no more risque than Wozniacki, Sharapova and other players.

Working girl chic! The WTA needs to develops dress code guidelines for its players before one turns up naked! VW is on the threshold.

I agree with zonkerscm. While I'm not a fan of Venus' outfit, I don't understand all of the controversy surrounding it. Caroline Wozniacki wore a similarly short tennis dress with her neon yellow knickers ablaze and no one has seemed to mention it.

http://sports.yahoo.com/tennis/news?slug=reu-openwozniackistep_tv_pix

"CBS went so far as to later display a "tug count" that tallied the number of times Venus and Peer pulled at their respective dresses following a point. At the time, Venus was leading Peer 42 to four."

The fact that she had to tug at the top/dress so often would lead me to think it's not a good outfit to wear for tennis. She should have just made the bottoms a tad longer and the top a tad shorter and it would not have been an issue.

Trashy and ridiculous IMO. I am also tired of the outfits and "look at me-itis" infecting so many sports -- it should be about the sport, not the outfit. Shows like DWTS seem to have picked up where ice dancing left off -- the costumes get teenier and more ridiculous each time.

Her hot pink "day" outfit was nothing compared to her "lady of the night" lingerie she wore Friday evening: http://celebs.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978497378