The Archive · 1923

Frocks at Home

Some Notes on Costumes Favoured Across Seas Reports which reach us from London and Paris regarding the costumes of Race Week show a tendency to simpler dressing among the really exclusive fre-quanters of the courses, although the unsettled weather for Ascot had something to do with the popularity of heavier fabrics, such as the fur-trimmed silk-rep suits. There have been those bold enough to suggest that some of the feminine attendants came with "a deeper interest in clothes than in ponies. If such a state of affairs be possible Ascot must certainly have rewarded them with a glimpse of wraps which looked ahead to autumn styles.

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