Women’s Tennis Blog is known as a go-to place for latest on-court style information, but we never really analysed the historic development of tennis apparel. The 1920s were arguably the decade when the most important of all changes were made to women’s tennis dresses. Sports historian Richard Naughton will tell us more about this revolutionary period, using excerpts from his recent book about the 1920s Australian player Daphne Akhurst, “The Woman behind the Trophy”.
