Glamour: Girls in hot pants bring out the drinks as World Series West Indies play their Australian counterparts in Sydney in 1979.
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Commenting on sporting attire is a dangerous pastime. Think of Sepp Blatter, then president of football’s world governing body FIFA, who was asked in 2004 how to increase the popularity of women’s football. “Let the women play in more feminine clothes like they do in volleyball,” he said. “They could, for example, have tighter shorts.” Blatter was roundly derided. Rightly so, perhaps. However despite t...