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Friday, March 16, 2012

Lili de Alvarez






By the time she was nineteen-years-old, Lili de Alvarez had distinguished herself as a champion ice skater, tennis player, alpine skier, equestrian, and race car driver! But it was being willing to shock the world in 1931 by marching out onto the court at Wimbledon in a divided tennis skirt (the forerunner of shorts) that established her position in history as an in-your-face woman. Wonder what she’d think of spandex or Daisy Dukes? She’d probably be first in line...

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