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AI garment reconstruction: Serena Williams, Wimbledon 2004. White sleeveless scoop-neck Nike dress with gold/tan side-waist panels, angular white bands, and a low skirt made from broad separated tabs with small perforations near their ends.

Match kit · AI garment reconstruction.

Serena Williams · 2004

Gladiator whites

Broad skirt tabs and gold-toned waist details cut a gladiator silhouette.

The story behind the look

Serena Williams’s 2004 Wimbledon Nike dress gave tennis whites a gladiator-style silhouette. Broad separated skirt tabs, tiny perforations and gold-toned waist details carried the design beyond a conventional pleated tennis dress.

Clive Brunskill photographed the look during her first-round match against Jie Zheng on June 22, 2004. The fitted scoop-neck bodice and slashed skirt are the defining features preserved in this reconstruction.

Across the net Wimbledon 2004 · FinalAgainst Maria Sharapova · The breakthrough dress