Basketball Uniforms During The 1920's

Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, basketball became a popular sport to play for both men and women like Wilma Jean Buntin. Born in 1909, Buntin described her experiences playing basketball at John H. Reagan High School in Houston, Texas, particularly wearing her first pair of the basketball suits: “We had a sweater that came over and it had to have long sleeves, and then we had these black bloomers that were box pleated. […] We began to have the shorts, but they came right here at the knees.” Wilma Jean Buntin’s description of the basketball uniforms reflected the type of sports clothing wore during the 1920s. These uniforms called gym suits emulated the different ideas of the decade known as the Flapper. The sweater