{"id":276,"date":"2025-04-16T21:38:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T20:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidelinesmag.co.uk\/?p=276"},"modified":"2025-06-05T17:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T16:38:43","slug":"by-women-for-women-sport-design-bras-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/sidelines\/2025\/04\/16\/by-women-for-women-sport-design-bras-boots\/","title":{"rendered":"By women, for women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><strong>Design, like other areas of sport, has sometimes had women as an afterthought. Now, a new generation of innovators are working to change that.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe had an email that was entitled, \u2018you&#8217;ve ruined my life\u2019. And I thought, \u2018oh no!\u2019\u201d laughs Charlotte Gill.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was feedback from a customer on a sports bra from PEBE (pronounced P-B, like the acronym for personal best), the company Gill co-founded with Lucy Horsell. Not a promising start, but the customer quickly elaborated. She had worked in the Royal Navy for ten years, and told Gill: \u201c\u2018I&#8217;ve had to throw all of my bras out because I was wearing totally the wrong size, but your Gravity Sports Bra has changed my life. My chronic back pain that I&#8217;ve suffered with for five years has evaporated, and my times have improved and I have done no extra training.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo to see an elite woman who has physical activity as part of her daily job give us that kind of feedback on a sports bra, it&#8217;s a fairly life-defining moment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That radical change was brought about thanks to PEBE\u2019s approach to design: made by women, for women, listening to what they need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/68542035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BBC<\/a> survey of elite British sportswomen, two-thirds said most of the equipment they used was not specifically designed for a woman. It\u2019s surprising that even a sports bra, a bit of kit designed for a female body, might seem not to take their needs into account &#8211; but Gill explains that she felt it wasn\u2019t a priority for mainstream brands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe sports bra is really left off the kit list.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe really want to bring it back, both at school and into the retail market, as an essential piece of kit. As a woman, your sports bra is just as important as your trainers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.port.ac.uk\/news-events-and-blogs\/news\/a-million-breast-bounces-have-helped-scientists-lead-a-bra-revolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Experts<\/a> say improper support can cause discomfort, pain, and damage to breasts during exercise. Elite athletes like netball player Ellie Caldwell and footballer Millie Bright have both spoken about painful playing experiences due to ill-fitting bras. Gill reflects on how she struggled to find options in the market that successfully married fashion with performance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWomen and girls care &#8211; we care about how they do the job, what they look like, how they make us feel. So it&#8217;s actually an incredibly important piece of kit that we were just incredibly passionate about changing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Problems with existing brands included a lack of adjustability and not accounting for breast biomechanics &#8211; the way breasts move in a figure-of-eight shape as you run. Gill describes how their head of product was ready to \u201crip up the rulebook of bra-making\u201d, ending up with their patented WRAPA technology, a contoured layer that accounts for that figure of eight movement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not just a marketing gimmick. The University of Portsmouth ranked PEBE\u2019s Gravity Sports Bra number one in movement control, ahead of 435 other sports bras including those from massive brands.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company works with elite sports organisations &#8211; including the FA, England Netball, and England Lacrosse &#8211; to teach them about proper sports bra fitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reflecting on their success, Gill says: \u201cI think we are a product created by women for women, and we really went off what we wanted.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are not the only brand to have started from a conversation and grown into a movement. On a trek up Mt. Kilimanjaro in 2017 to play the highest-altitude football match ever, Laura Youngson discovered that other women were suffering pain due to from ill-fitting boots. That sparked the creation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idasports.com\/en-gb?srsltid=AfmBOoq2p8_bu96kxLI3FVfbs2Wo3IgoLmmT62A3mHC7BHRbTd7hsxj_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IDA Sports<\/a>, who create football boots specifically designed for women.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe mostly focus on fit and comfort for our female athletes so that we can allow them to perform better and also alleviate risk of injury,\u201d says Emelia Funnell, the company\u2019s Product Research and Development Lead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"1300\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sidelinesmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/04\/4x5-Insta-Crops_0013_Summer24-Industrial-Ticiana-10-copy-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Woman wearing sports bra\" class=\"wp-image-1300 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 819px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 819\/1024;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Model wearing the PEBE sports bra <br>XDB Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"1301\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sidelinesmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/04\/PEBE_Studio-19_1-copy-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Woman wearing sports bra\" class=\"wp-image-1301 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 683px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 683\/1024;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Model wearing the PEBE sports bra <br>XDB Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"1302\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sidelinesmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/04\/PEBE_Studio-08-copy-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Woman wearing sports bra\" class=\"wp-image-1302 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 683px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 683\/1024;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Model wearing the PEBE sports bra<br>XDB Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"1299\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sidelinesmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/04\/4x5-Insta-Crops_0026_Summer24-Industrial-Savanna-12-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Woman wearing sports bra and holding a football\" class=\"wp-image-1299 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 819px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 819\/1024;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Model wearing the PEBE sports bra<br>XDB Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"1298\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sidelinesmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/04\/4x5-Insta-Crops_0028_Summer24-Industrial-Savanna-10-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Woman wearing sports bra, holding a football\" class=\"wp-image-1298 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 819px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 819\/1024;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Model wearing the PEBE sports bra<br>XDB Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Before Ida, most football boots on the market for women were \u2018unisex\u2019 &#8211; but, as Miss Funnel explains, these are generally developed from a \u2018last\u2019 (a shoemaking mould) resembling a male foot &#8211; and, more specifically, a Caucasian male foot. Women\u2019s feet tend to be more triangular, have higher arches, and carry body weight differently; Ida\u2019s boot shape and stud configuration are designed accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf they&#8217;re more comfortable, they&#8217;ll be more confident in their movements. They&#8217;ll be able to play a full 90 minutes without thinking about their feet the whole time and that&#8217;s what we exist to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea of creating boots <em>just <\/em>for women appears radical to some. \u201cA lot of men will ask us, \u2018When are you going to make men&#8217;s?\u2019\u201d Funnell says, \u201cAnd we&#8217;re like, you have men&#8217;s everywhere else!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll get around to you but we&#8217;re going to use the opposite approach of driving our design with a female first approach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, Gill describes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teampebe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PEBE\u2019s<\/a> products as created \u201cby women, for women\u201d, and calls their female-led ethos \u201cfundamental\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor us, a PB is personal to you. It\u2019s not about the fastest marathon time. It might be that your PB was that match that you came back from severe injury or a miscarriage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat personal experience of being a woman, fully understanding the process of what our customers and all the wearers of our sports bras will need &#8211; we know we can fully give that to them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of great male allies &#8211; but if there was a product needed for controlling men\u2019s balls as they were running around, I would not be the best person to design that because I couldn\u2019t fully understand what was needed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is an element of fully understanding and relating and empathising so you can create the best product possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s also a social element to these design innovations, as Funnell points out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s also about inclusion of women in sports. To be able to go into a sports store and go to a wall that says women&#8217;s football boots is completely different.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s kind of the social side as well &#8211; by providing kit that&#8217;s suitable for female athletes, that\u2019s also growing the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PEBE\u2019s work is not just selling sports bras, but also changing attitudes. They run workshops in schools to educate pupils about the importance of proper bra fitting and the performance impact of wearing a proper sports bra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is about changing it for a generation of women,\u201d Gill says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEverything we do is with the goal of a woman feeling at her best to go out and train, because we have enough bloody barriers in the way as it is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Design, like other areas of sport, has sometimes had women as an afterthought. 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