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AI garment reconstruction: Evonne Goolagong, Wimbledon 1972. White sleeveless scoop-neck A-line dress with pale turquoise armhole trim and an embroidered scene of gum trees beside water on the lower front.

Match kit · AI garment reconstruction.

Evonne Goolagong · 1972

Gum trees by the water

An embroidered Australian landscape gave a white dress a personal story.

Tournament
Wimbledon
Date
June–July 1972
Design
Ted Tinling

The story behind the look

Ted Tinling embroidered gum trees beside a creek onto this dress for Evonne Goolagong. The International Tennis Hall of Fame describes the landscape as a tribute to her name and Indigenous Australian heritage. Its record dates the garment to 1972 and documents wear at both Wimbledon and the US Open; this entry represents Wimbledon.

A simple sleeveless shape leaves space for the scene near the hem, with pale turquoise trim echoing the water. This is distinct from Goolagong’s scalloped floral dress already in the archive. The museum photograph guides the front reconstruction; the unseen rear is inferred.