Style File № 61

How to dress like Tashi Duncan from Challengers

Tennis whites, a polo dress, unbranded neutrals, small gold jewellery and a very expensive-looking nothing.

White Polo DressPleated Tennis SkirtNeutral KnitwearClean White TrainersSmall Gold Jewellery

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№ 61 Challengers Conformity, dressed deliberately. TashiDuncan Success looks generic. Present day 9 pieces White Polo Dress · Pleated Tennis Skirt · Neutral Knitwear

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The Wardrobe, Decoded

Conformity, dressed deliberately.

Jonathan Anderson designed the film's costume and was explicit about what Tashi's off-court wardrobe means: "If you were to see Tashi outside, in the real world, she is proof that there is something about success that ultimately makes people go toward conformity" — everyone successful "has the same luggage, or the same jewelry, which becomes slightly generic."

Why we can't let it go

Tashi Duncan is the wardrobe that launched a thousand tenniscore posts, and Anderson's actual point is much sharper than the trend it produced.

On court she is in whites and technical fabrics — precise, functional, sponsor-clean. Off court she is in the international uniform of the successful: neutral, unbranded, expensive, and completely interchangeable with everyone else at her level.

That's the argument. Winning makes you generic. It's a fairly bleak thing to build a wardrobe around and it's why the film's clothes stayed in the conversation long after it left cinemas.

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On Court

Playing, in whites

Functional, precise and genuinely white.

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Start with the white polo dress
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Off Court

The rest of the time, deliberately generic

Neutral discipline with no logos and no contrast anywhere.

Not picked yet

We haven't chosen the exact pieces for this look — but every garment above is described precisely enough to find. Open any one and we'll go and look for it.

Start with the neutral fine knit

How to actually wear the Tashi look

On-court is the easy half: a white polo dress or a polo and pleated skirt, plus clean white trainers and a visor or cap. Whites should be actually white — off-white reads as vintage rather than as sport. Off-court is neutral discipline. Camel, cream, stone, navy, with no logos and no contrast. It's the same rule as Shiv Roy, aimed at a different life. The jewellery is small and gold, and it never changes. One chain, small hoops, a thin ring. Anderson's point about everyone having the same jewellery is the joke — lean into it. And fit is everything again. There is no print, no colour and no hardware to distract from a bad line.