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AI garment reconstruction: Martina Navratilova, Wimbledon 1978. Martina Navratilova’s sleeveless Ted Tinling dress with narrow pinstripes, a navy monogrammed collar and a button front at Wimbledon in 1978.

Match kit · AI garment reconstruction.

Martina Navratilova · 1978

The first Wimbledon collar

Pinstripes and a navy sailor collar for a first major title.

Tournament
Wimbledon
Date
July 1978
Design
Ted Tinling
Tournament finish
WSingles

The story behind the look

Fine vertical stripes run beneath an oversized navy collar, edged in white and marked with an M. A line of dark buttons continues down the front of the sleeveless dress.

Navratilova won her first Wimbledon singles title, and first major singles title, in 1978. The Tennis Hall of Fame documents the design with an archival photograph and a replacement dress made by Ted Tinling. That replacement, rather than an original match-worn garment, supplies the clearer construction reference here.