The Best Street Style From the Women’s World Cup

This article was originally published by Vogue Australia.

The biggest tournament in women’s sport kicked off on July 20, with Australia securing a narrow victory over the Republic of Ireland. It was Steph Catley, on assuming the captaincy, who guided the Matildas, as the team is known, on the back of her decisive penalty kick. With over 75,000 in attendance for the match, fans came from all over Australia to take part in the opening match. Sydney was awash in green and gold, and the wave of wattle is looking to wash over the rest of the country in the coming weeks.

With plenty of games taking place across five Australian cities, fans have bought their tickets in droves. The humble football jersey has, as it has for men, become a street style stalwart around the world; with designers like Grace Wales Bonner and Martine Rose delivering stylish iterations. Elsewhere, teams at the club level like Venezia and Monaco, have been tapping designers to elevate their match-day looks to resonate with the street style set.

As easy as the task sounds, styling a World Cup jersey can be done in so many ways that it might seem daunting. During the World Cup, this amalgam of “Blokecore” and “Blokette” style looks delivered a bricolage of color and personal style. Fans matched their favorite jerseys with baggy denim, or showed their team colors through a scarf or hoodie. All the while, the tried and tested rules of Australian winter street style have reigned supreme. Whether leather, quilted, dropped-shoulder, or oversized, in neutral colors or a loud print, a statement jacket is still a must—it is cold after all!. Especially for the matches after-dark—evening wear gets a sportswear-inflicted edge, as open blazers reveal the familiar pop of a Matildas jersey underneath. Really, sporting at least some splash of green and gold is an absolute must during the tournament, because after all, there’s nothing more stylish than heaping your support behind the girls.

And as the matches continued, the different national teams brought their own support crews, and thus new styles and trends plucked from around the world—soccer is, after all, the most-played game around the world.

With Vogue’s street-style photographer Rachel Yabsley on the ground outside the stadiums on match day, she was there to capture the best street style before kick-off.

Scroll on for the best street style spotted during the Women’s World Cup.