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Image of Suzanne Lenglen modelling a tennis dress for Selfridge & Co. Published in Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News. Suzanne Lenglen was a pioneering French tennis player known for her flamboyant, temperamental personality. Lenglen attacted a lot of criticism when she became the first woman player to turn professional after an extraordinary amateur career. She won Wimbledon and the French Open six times each in a period of seven years and lost one one match in all that time. Lenglen's personal style brought an element of fashion and glamour to the court, wearing short, floating dresses by Jean Patou and a signature headscarf. Gordon Selfridge persuaded Lenglen to give tennis lessons on the roof of his department store and to design and promote sportswear, as seen in this image. According to the magazine this dress was available in a variety of fabrics and cost 30 shillings while the 'Lenglen bandeau' sold for 4s. 6d. The 'daring player' also 'dispensed with stockings, preferring instead to use Velva Beauty Film by Elizabeth Arden'.