This Skirt Won't Work!: How Women Athletes Changed Their Clothes and Changed the Game Cole Arthur Riley Travel to the top of

Travel to the top of Mount Olympus

at the dawn of the modern age:

What would you sacrifice to protect the one you loved

Determined to help Buster find his forever home

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This Skirt Won't Work!: How Women Athletes Changed Their Clothes and Changed the Game Cole Arthur Riley Travel to the top 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