It’s time to rip up the fashion rule book for the Melbourne Cup and let style win.
Laying the blame of racewear’s downfall on the slaves to social media dressed for nights on the town in the extravagant Birdcage marquees is too easy. Look at PE Nation designer Pip Edwards at Derby Day in granny pants, a sheer skirt and baseball cap andDerby Day: PE Nation designer Pip Edwards wearing Lillian Khallouf; model Jessica Gomes in Jordan Dalah; reporter Holly Stearnes.
Dated dress codes encourage an idea of racewear that no longer exists. Take a hat off most women at the Cup, and they’re just dressed to nines at 11am, many with makeup that a drag queen would hesitate to wear in daylight.Getty If people dressed to express themselves, rather than meet an ambiguous dress code that should have vanished when British supermodel Jean Shrimpton’s breezy style shocked a frumpy crowd in 1965, we might see more inspiring examples of personal style.Tear up the rule book because fashion anarchy has to look better than the onslaught of attention – grabbing cleavage and oversized stunt hats, which block views of the racetrack for anyone still interested in looking at horses.
What happens at Flemington trickles down to racecourses around the country. Best-dressed entrants looking stylish in simple dresses at country races are regularly dismissed in favour of women in startlingly shiny gloves, stiff dresses and strange hats because of dress etiquette tips that once sat beside fondue recipes in magazines from the ‘70s.
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