Wimbledon and tennis clothes

[Culmor]

With the start of the Wimbledon tennis tournaments almost upon us let's remember Anne White who (twenty-five years ago this year) finished warming up in her match against Pam Shriver and took off her track suit to reveal this:

                   

The next day she was told to wear something more 'appropriate'. I suspect the All England Club officials of the time would have had heart attacks had they seen Serena William's magnificent outfit:

                       

Incidentally, these two outfits come respectively first and second in this 'worst tennis clothing of all time' video, which I think is most unfair. I'd certainly take a lot more interest in tennis if the women all dressed like that. The interesting bit starts at 2:05
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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltiD8aWmZ1s
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Edit, a few more pics of Serena added.

[Like Ra]

That reminds me this article http://www.likera.com/blog/wp/archives/4019 I wrote about figure skating. Same "more appropriate" 😉

From what I remember, originally, the "tennis suit" included stockings. Skirts were longer to cover the garters. It's the invention of tights what made wearing short skirts possible.

Need to find references...

[Culmor]

I'm not sure whether these belong in this thread or not but these pics of Serena in Hawaii are too good not to post. If she ever wants a new career Ms Williams would make the most glorious dominatrix ever. I'd certainly do whatever she told me to...(my imagination's working overtime ☺ )