Editing Wimbledon Championships (section)

===Colours and uniforms===
[[File:Wimbledon Grojean 2004 RJL.JPG|thumb|[[Sébastien Grosjean]] takes a shot on Court 18 during the [[2004 Wimbledon Championships|2004 Championships]].]]
Dark green and purple are the traditional Wimbledon colours. However, all tennis players participating in the tournament are required to wear all-white or at least almost all-white clothing, a long-time tradition at Wimbledon.<ref>{{cite web|title=Game and All Set for a Match: Wimbledon and our Inner Tennis Player|url=http://www.thegreenrooms.net/research-and-articles/game-and-all-set-for-a-match-wimbledon-and-our-inner-tennis-player/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140115104417/http://www.thegreenrooms.net/research-and-articles/game-and-all-set-for-a-match-wimbledon-and-our-inner-tennis-player/|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 January 2014|publisher=The Green Rooms|access-date=15 January 2014}}</ref>{{efn|name=clothing_guidelines|Guidelines regarding the prominently-white clothing rule include no solid mass of colouring; coloured trims not to exceed 1{{nbsp}}cm; shirt or dress backs to be totally white; all other items of clothing, including shorts, shirts, caps, headbands, socks, and shoe uppers to be predominantly white. In 2023 rules first allowed all female players, included but not limited to in the girls’ singles junior event, to wear non-white underwear; the new rule allows "solid, mid/dark-coloured undershorts, provided they are no longer than their shorts or skirt".<ref name="auto">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/4634722/2023/07/02/wimbledon-period-all-white-dress-code/|title=Wimbledon are relaxing their all-white dress code to ease the stress of women's periods|first1=Nancy|last1=Froston|first2=Charlie|last2=Eccleshare|work=The New York Times |date=17 October 2023 |via=NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/atoz/clothing_and_equipment.html | work=Wimbledon | title=Clothing and equipment | access-date=12 July 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160712041512/http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/atoz/clothing_and_equipment.html | archive-date=12 July 2016 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>}} This rule was put in place in 1963, when the tournament's first dress code was enforced.<ref>{{Cite web |first=Tim |last=Newcomb |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/timnewcomb/2019/06/24/whats-with-wimbledons-white-rule-and-how-do-brands-approach-design/ |title=What's With Wimbledon's White Rule, And How Do Brands Approach Designing For Tennis Players? |website=Forbes |access-date=24 June 2019 |archive-date=6 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006125700/https://www.forbes.com/sites/timnewcomb/2019/06/24/whats-with-wimbledons-white-rule-and-how-do-brands-approach-design/?sh=30ef7ad3a8fd |url-status=live}}</ref> Wearing white clothing with some colour accents is also acceptable, provided the colour scheme is not that of an identifiable commercial brand logo (the outfitter's brand logo being the sole exception). Controversy followed [[Martina Navratilova]]'s wearing branding for "Kim" cigarettes in 1982. In 2023 rules first allowed all female players, included but not limited to in the girls’ singles junior event, to wear non-white underwear; the new rule allows "solid, mid/dark-coloured undershorts, provided they are no longer than their shorts or skirt".<ref name="auto"/> Green clothing was worn by the chair umpire, linesmen, ball boys and ball girls until the 2005 Championships; however, beginning with the 2006 Championships, officials, ball boys and ball girls were dressed in new navy blue- and cream-coloured uniforms from American designer [[Ralph Lauren]].