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Gertrude "Gorgeous Gussy" Moran shocked the tennis world in 1949 when she wore lace-trimmed panties under her skirt at Wimbledon. Ted Tinling, a former tennis player who had designed Moran's risqué outfit, was accused of introducing "sin and vulgarity into tennis," but the scandal certainly didn't hurt the club at the box-office. Moran's undergarments were front page news worldwide, and all of this free publicity made the 1949 Wimbledon Championships one of the most talked-about tennis events in history.

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