Centre Stage: When ladies go a-courting
02 July 2015 - 02:05
It doesn't take much to upset the wardrobe department at Wimbledon. This is as true today as it was in 1905, when American player May Sutton Bundy, competing in the final in a corset, a stiff petticoat and a floor-length dress, rolled back her sleeves because they were "too long and too hot" and promptly caused an outcry.
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