Fashioning Competitive Lawn Tennis: Object, Image, and Reality in Women’s Tennis Dress 1884-1919

Suzanne Rowland

doi:10.4324/9781315533575

Fashioning Competitive Lawn Tennis: Object, Image, and Reality in Women’s Tennis Dress 1884-1919

Suzanne Rowland

Centre for Design History

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Abstract

This chapter demonstrates how dress specifically for playing tennis first developed within the boundaries of class, respectability and fashionable taste. By using garment analysis techniques, photographs and printed materials it questions dominant representations of early tennis dress. Moving away from ‘garden party’ representations of the game, it reassesses performance through dress, and demonstrates that competitive players from the late Victorian and Edwardian period played a strenuous game and competed to win.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Routledge Handbook of Tennis History, Culture and Politics
Editors	Robert Lake, Carol Osborne
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	17
Pages	173-182
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315533574
ISBN (Print)	9781138691933
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315533575
Publication status	Published - 5 Feb 2019

Keywords

tennis dress
Wimbledon
female tennis players

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