Venus has got personality and she shows it. She went on court at the French Open against Patty Schnyder with a tennis dress from her own collection making her look like coming out from Les Folies Bergeres, a combo of a lacy top teamed up with a tutu skirt. Added to the burlesque outfit the shortie matching her colour skin left little ambiguity about her forms. She used the same trick during the Australian tour in January where speculations arose whether or not she was wearing anything at all... Did Venus went "underwear or commando"?

Back onto the French Open she managed to win the game but she also ranked high in publicity with Google's searches hiting at the top lists. Winning the match was no longer the point. What she was wearing was the attraction of the day and it generated once again more comments than her tennis skills.

We achieve fame in various ways and I believe she does it through her personality as well as her tennis history. She might not be the greatest tennis player but doesn't it give her the right to be playful with the way she dresses? So where is the debate here? Are we getting a controversy over the tennis dress code etiquette, which should be the responsability of the Tennis Federation or is it fuelling an outdated dispute between feminity and feminism? (see my blog Feb 8th 2010).

She wants attention and she gets it. Now falling into crude feminist comments on her gender is out of place. Surely this dress is not a great style neither for her bodyshape nor for the occasion. But do we have to fit all in the same box to look ok? Her outfit was a bit clownesque but frankly it made me laugh rather than scandalised me. Some comments I read were more outragingly ruder than this unadequate outfit.

Let's remember one thing. Once you've made it at the top, whatever you choose to wear will not have much consequences on how people perceive yourself... Meanwhile you might just have to stick with the dress code and climb the social ladder. To everyone who wrote in a crude way I answer: have you made it at the top yet?

So...Shocking or not shocking?

Venus is a creative - check my blog on style personality May 7th 2010- and a recognized tennis professional who trains 6 hours a day dedicating her life to sport. What do you expect from her than you won't from a man?