What\'s with the pants, Venus?

Stand aside Lady Gaga, for 2010 has a brand new ­ambassador for big pants. Here\'s Venus Williams at the Australian Open wearing an acid yellow Australian dress complete with splits in the skirt that reveal her flesh-coloured knickers. Cue lots of snide blogosphere remarks about whether ­Williams was going commando or not – because, of course, it\'s highly likely that an international sports star would just ­forget to get dressed before ­going to work.

Actually, displaying flesh-­coloured kickers is neither new nor shocking – Madonna has been working the look for years. It\'s just that it\'s more ­unusual to see a black woman doing so. Personally, I salute ­Venus\'s style savvy. First, she gets an instant name-check for EleVen, her own recently launched clothing label. (Who needs a catwalk when you have a bank of baseline photographers to manipulate?) Second, she\'s straight in there with spring\'s hardest-to-wear yet much-lauded trend: underwear-as-outerwear. It\'s just a shame she had to claim the look was somehow a classic, boasting that \"anything I wear on the court probably you could wear 20 years from now\".

Now come on, Venus – tennis-chic shock tactics have a notoriously short shelf life. Remember your sister Serena\'s biker look? Her denim kilt and knee-length trainers? Enough said.
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