A polo shirt is also known as a tennis shirt. Originally designed for men as tennis attire in the late 1800s, these T-shirts were eventually adopted by many other sports, including polo and golf. A polo shirt is made of a loosely woven cotton. This makes the fabric breathable, whmore...
Plastic chest protector, mandatory for females. While male versions of the chest protector are also available, they were, until recently, primarily worn by instructors, who are hit far more often during training than their students. These are increasingly popular in foil, as the more...
In recent years other ballistic fabrics such as Dyneema have been developed that resist puncture and which do not have kevlar's issues. FIE rules state that the tournament outfits must be made of fabric that resists a force of 800 newtons (180 lbf) and that the mask bib must resimore...