Suzanne Lenglen
French tennis playerWikipedia
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Search complete. 2 mentions across 2 episodes found for "Suzanne Lenglen".
Sep 14, 2026
The Roaring Twenties: When Women Stopped Dressing for Men
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32:13speaker_0HOST
We have Jean Patou.
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32:15speaker_0HOST
So he is one of the designers which really embraced sportswear, and he started dressing Suzanne Lenglen, um, for her tennis tournaments.
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32:24speaker_0HOST
And they also caused a scandal in 1921 because, as she was playing tennis, when she was running and she was jumping, her stockings were showing, and people were like, "Oh my God," like, "What do you mean I can see her stockings?" But Jean Patou really tapped into that, and he was like, "Amazing.
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32:40speaker_0HOST
Let's really tap into it." And he started creating his own sportswear lines, and he also started using s- athletic people as models.
US Open, Day 11: A day of debates and debacles
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5:49Calvin BettonGUEST
Yeah, yeah
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5:49James GrayHOST
... not getting on, you'll just take you over to Suzanne Lenglen."
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5:51Calvin BettonGUEST
I, I, I don't see how you can have night sessions with two matches.
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5:54Calvin BettonGUEST
I mean, y- even they, it only works if, if the matches are quick.