Scored World Cup Tickets? Here's What You Should Wear
Everyone needs a sporty outfit right now.
The World Cup is here, and perhaps you were lucky enough to score tickets. Even if you aren't going to any of the games IRL, you likely have a very demanding schedule over the next couple of weeks that involves meeting your friends at a bar to watch a game.
Dressing up for soccer games is particularly fun because you can just wear a jersey and jeans and call it a day or get a bit more creative. There aren't any rules for how to rep your team or your country. You can easily wear a Conner Ives jersey dress that looks like a gown or a pair of funky Sandy Liang tights with an oversize championship shirt. If anything, the sporty connotations of a jersey make it fun for experimentation. The "so wrong it's right" theory works great here.
Below, we've compiled some of our favorite soccer outfits that'll provide endless outfit inspiration until the finals. The best part is you can absolutely wear these looks long after the World Cup is over.
What to Wear to a Soccer Game
A Jersey With Funky Leggings and Metallic Heels
For an outfit that will truly stand out, do as Devon Lee Carlson does and wear an oversize jersey with a pair of funky printed leggings and metallic heels. You can wear it as a dress and use it as an unexpected layering base for trickier pieces.
A Jersey Dress
One of our favorite World Cup looks is, of course, by British designer Conner Ives. Ives is known for his shirred jersey shirts, which are crafted from vintage jerseys that are then disassembled and stitched with elastic thread to give a cinched-in baby-tee look. But we're also big fans of his jersey dresses, which reimagine the jersey, a famously casual sporty essential, as something more formal.
A Patriotic Tank With Striped Shorts
While out in Brazil, Rosalía wore an outfit that wasn't necessarily for the World Cup but provided good inspiration regardless. Who needs a jersey when you can wear a teeny-tiny country tank top with striped micro shorts? It's a great look to wear if you watch the game by the beach, but it's also perfect for vacation after the tournament is over.
An Oversize Sports Tee With Nylon Pants
Aimee Song's look for the Mexico–South Korea games looks vintage and retro even though it isn't. Both her pieces are designed by the brand Made Some, which is largely inspired by older silhouettes and vacation style from the past. That being said, the colorful nylon pants and oversize shirt make for the best look to wear if you're watching a World Cup game abroad. It's casual and breezy but still works for anything, from lounging at the beach to an alfresco dinner with the game blasting in the background.

Tara Gonzalez is a senior fashion and social editor at WhoWhatWear. where she is interested in exploring the intersection of fashion and culture and why we are drawn to wearing the things we wear and what that says about the world we live in. Previously she worked as a senior fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar. When she isn't writing trend deep dives for WWW, she's working on her newsletter on Substack, Cult Classic, which explores the very best fashion in film and television. She has a degree in creative writing from The University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Brooklyn with her boyfriend and pug Bjork, the later of which has a very extensive collection of dog-sized Sandy Liang sweaters.