Wimbledon - Center Court - appropriate attire
 

Any comments?

If you're playing tennis whites per regulations otherwise casual, clean and comfortable will suffice.
Do wear layers to cope with whatever weather you get (windproof / waterproof outer layer plus umbrella may be needed as often as sunscreen and a hat).

jeans like everyone else!

You won't need the rain gear anymore if you have center court seats. The new retractable roof is going to be unveiled in May. Exhibition between Agassi/Graf vs Clisters/can't remember will be the first match under the roof.

"The new retractable roof is going to be unveiled in May."

ahhhhhh! I had forgotten about that. We saw it being installed when we toured there in December.

Thanks for all the replies.

I had seen one thread that mentioned coat and tie for center court, so I was getting worried. ;)

It has been a number of years since I attended, but I saw everything from jeans to smart-casual ensembles that included hats.
I wore one myself, and thoroughly enjoyed wearing it.

Please don't take any offence Mangosalsa, but the fixation some overseas visitors to the UK have with "dress codes", "appropriate attire" etc comes across as *very* odd to most British people :) Apart from a few very isolated examples, we wear whatever we like to sporting/cultural/public events - nobody else gives two hoots. We go to Wimbledon every year (just got my ticket confirmation this week) and most people are just wearing their normal casual clothes. You see a few suits, but these are generally people on a corporate entertainment freebie.

The only clothes that are supposedly prohibited are things like beachwear, t-shirts/caps with prominent advertising/logos, and large hats (the theory being they will obscure the view of others behind!).

As for the wet weather gear and centre court: yes it's true the retractable roof will be in operation for this first time this year, but you'll still need waterproofs/foldable umbrella on a wet day as you will be queueing to get in and for food/drinks etc outside the court itself.

There will also be (unwritten) dress code for the Royal box, but I don't think you will be sitting there - if you were, you wouldn't be posting here!

I used to live very close to the courts and if my experience is anything to go by you could turn up in a gimp mask and no one would bat an eyelid.

All sorts of regrettable clothes are worn.

ps Don't turn up in a gimp mask.

I think the belief there might be a dress code at Centre Court has slightly more basis in fact than some of the idiocies foreigners churn out on these boards about what you're "supposed" to wear at our churches, theatres and sporting events (real answer in virtually all cases: "whatever you like", though there's no telling people who really do want to believe that they're right and we're wrong).

A substantial proportion of people in the seats at the main Centre Court matches that are visible on TV are on corporate freebies. On these packages - especially for the finals and semi-finals - there usually is an unwritten code for the lunch and post-match browsing and sluicing - so it can easily look on TV as if people in general are dressed a great deal more formally than the very British scruff you'll find the crowd overall is decked out in.