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AI garment reconstruction: Maria Bueno, Wimbledon 1962. Maria Bueno’s fitted white Tinling dress with a broad waist, flared skirt and documented hot-pink diamond details on the lining at Wimbledon in 1962.

Match kit · AI garment reconstruction.

Maria Bueno · 1962

A secret flash of pink

A white dress that saved its brightest detail for movement.

Tournament
Wimbledon
Date
5 July 1962
Design
Ted Tinling
Documented round
SemifinalSingles · 5 July 1962
Match result
Lostvs Věra Suková

The story behind the look

From the stands, Bueno’s dress could look perfectly conventional: a fitted white bodice above a short, flared skirt. Ted Tinling hid hot-pink diamond decorations inside the lining, making colour appear as she moved.

The photograph records her 1962 semifinal against Věra Suková. Its black-and-white view establishes the silhouette, while written accounts document the concealed pink. The reconstruction interprets that lining; it is not a recovered colour image of the original dress.