In 1982 Olivia Newton John told us, “let’s get physical”. And although the 1980s fashion stimulation has been and gone, Olivia’s words will still ring true among 2010’s fashion trends. No, we’re not chitchat vigour induced sweat stains, neon lycras, or hideous headbands. In its place sportswear becomes streetwear in Spring 2010 – in all its sexy, svelte, and easy splendour.

Alexander Wang’s matchless cool factor puts him at the fore of this trend. The young, fresh construal he sent down the runway for Spring 2010 means we’ll all be looking to American football for an booster of youthful tomboy cool into our wardrobes come Spring. But while football is key, it’s not the only sportswear stimulation: we’ll also be looking to sports like baseball & hockey, tennis, scuba-diving, and dance.

Sports trend: the looks

The potential for 2010’s sportswear fashion trend are many – but it’s also easy to go off beam. Thus, we’ve singled out four key looks for how to wear this trend in 2010: the tomboy, the sporty flapper, the urban dancer, and the Bond bombshell.

The tomboy

She’s the pretty girl at school with the rough-and-tumble approach, the one who’s supremely oblivious of her own gorgeousness; the one that kicks the ball with the boys insensible to their crushes. Alexander Wang epitomised this look with his Spring 2010 anthology: youthful, inconceivably cool, and eventually sexy. The cool aspect is engineered by way of cropped tops, pants low slung to expose the waistband of an under-layer; leather cross-lacing, jersey fabrics, football-style shoulders. Woven into the effortless tomboy look are super-feminine rudiments like sheer fabrics and high heeled shoes, placing the look steadily in 2010.

Along with American football – which was also an muse behind Alexandre Herchcovitch’s Spring 2010 assortment – you can also take your fashionable sportswear motivation from other tomboyish sports like hockey, baseball, rugby league, and soccer.

The sporty flapper

If she were a character, she’d be The Great Gatsby’s Jordan Baker; athletic, boyish, cynical, seductive. Golf or tennis are the flapper girl’s games, so in 2010 it’s preppy with a 1920s twist. Look no more than Hermes – with drop-waist pleated skirts and sports stripes in classic colors – for insight.

The urban dancer

She’s a slight more Dirty Dancing than Swan Lake; but that said it’s not an 80s outfit party free-for-all either. We simply mean that – as with any take on the sports trend in 2010 – it’s best when femaleness is kept low key. There’s an element of the urban, of the street. A little bit of robustness and negligence. Look to Charlotte Ronson as a perfect example, with a subtly stonewashed bodysuit given modern flair; soft ballet pinks and creams transferred into skinny pants and flowing sheer hoodies, her looks capped off by topknots and understated braided sweatbands. Bottega Veneta’s slouchy sweats in pastel yellows are  further leading illustrations.

The Bond bombshell

You know all those knock-out Bond Girl bikinis that someway imply an ingredient of the efficient, and yet are really nothing more than sex bomb swimwear? Ursula Andress’ belted bikini, or the red scuba suit in Thunderball… that’s what to think of when you effort this look.

Based greatly in scuba and diving wear, sleek modern takes were seen on the runways of Gucci, Julien Macdonald, and Alexander McQueen for Spring 2010. Any dabbling in this type of sporty look should be skin-hugging, sexy, and most of all – risky.

How to style it

As described above, there are many ways to add a sporty look to your clothing for Spring 2010. For any sporty style, the significant thing is not to look too shoddy like you’ve just spent an hour at the gym, or too “glamorous” either – no Juicy Couture velour tracksuits please. Here are a few things more commonly that you can try to work the look:

Messy long hair, the side braid

Sexed up with super high yet sport motivated heels

Integrate some knee-high socks – look to Alexander Wang’s cut-out back socks, or sports socks with stripes – but in luxe fabrics. The right kind of leg-warmers can also work

Cross-lacing – particularly in leather – reminiscent of baseball gloves and boot laces

Shoulder pads, football player style

Work in the hot pants trend for a sporty take on hot pants or bodysuits

Cut off tees

Jersey fabrics; mesh

Pleated tunics (elegant ones – no super-short cheerleader skirts)

Efficacy elements like plastic buckles, snap closures, and rope tie

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