NEWS FOR WOMEN Tailored Suits Favoured By Riccarton Racegoers

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27733, 10 August 1955, Page 2

NEWS FOR WOMEN Tailored Suits Favoured By Riccarton Racegoers

The Canterbury Jockey Club’s Grand National meeting was continued at Riccarton yesterday, when the second day’s programme was run in very pleasant conditions. The sun shone brightly, tempting women patrons to shed the warm coats which have been so heavily in demand recently, and to appear in tailored suits worn with ■small hats.

The preponderance of ’materials of two or more interwoven colours was marked. Black and navy blue had almost disappeared from the scene, and grey, which has dominated the fashion world for some time, was much neglected. Another noteworthy point was the popularity of hats of colours differing from the colour of the suits—a style that, to be successful, needs to be adopted with care. - The Governor-General (Sir Willoughby Norrie). Liady Norrie, and their party arrived at the course in time for the second race, in which his Excellency had a horse, Western Desert, running. Lady Norrie wore a suit of a lovely shade of dark red, with a velvet collar, and a small velour hat to match. Mrs Giloert Grigg, wife of the chairman of the committee of the club, wore a goblin blue and black suit and a red hat. Miss Diana Estcourt, her Excellency’s .lady-in-waiting, wore a beige suit, lightly cross-barred in pastel colours, made with a pleated skirt, and worn with a mastic jumper and pale blue hat.

As on Saturday, many visitors to Christchurch were among interested spectators of the racing. These included Mr And Mrs G. Gowan and Miss Barbara Nolan (Auckland), Mr W. V. Shannon and Mrs Shannon and Mr W. Gibbons and Mrs Gibbons (Palmerston North), Miss N. Story and Miss Hilda Crawford (Southland), Mr and Mrs

V. W. Russell, Dr. and Mrs A. J. Mason, Mr and Mrs R. J. Mulligan, Dr. and Mrs W. Guildford Todd, Mr and Mrs N. R. Farrant, and Mr and Mrs H. E. Cook (all of Ashburton). Mrs A. Wigley (Omarama), accompanied her parents, Mr and Mrs Ken Austin. A Marlborough visitor was Mrs lan Waddy (Wara), and Mrs J. Sutherland (Waimate) was with her mother, Mrs Neill Rattray. Others present included Mrs M G. Louisson, Mrs J. H. Grigg, Mrs Frank Scott, Mrs H. McLean, Mrs L. C. L. Averill, Mrs T. Morten, Misa Jane Donnelly, Miss Kathleen Lascelles, Mrs lan Murchison Mrs Neil Guthrie, Mrs P. Stanley Foster, Mrs L. W. Matson and her daughter, Mrs John Hall, Mrs M. B. Warren, Mrs Gereld Scott, Mrs A. P l . Boyle, Mrs E. M. Gibson, Mrs George Turrell Mrs D. Parsonson, Mrs J. L. Macfarlane, Mrs J. Ensor, Mrs J. Watherston, Mrs Robin Gould, Mrs Guy Dampier-Crossley, Mrs Humphrey Gould; Mrs B. M. Field and her daughter, Mrs I. McW. Harkness, Mrs E. D. R, Smith, Mrs A. Gillanders, Mrs A. G. S. Gibbs, Mrs J. S. Middleton. Mrs H. W. Macfarlane . Mrs F. H. E. Chester, Mrs R. R. Jordan (Fairlie), Mrs Richard Kerr (Timaru), Mrs E. W. Kerr (Cave), Mrs Shirley Wright, Miss E. Hume, Mrs Leslie Burt, Miss H. Buch> anan, Mrs H. Reece, Mrs Norman Tingey, Mrs A. H. Cavell, Mrs Maurice Johnston, Mrs H. Treseder, Mrs H. C. D. van Asch, Mrs B. H. Brown (Kaikotira), Mrs C. H. Upham, the Misses Gray,. Mrs Harold Barker, Mrs E. W. Cuddon, Mrs David McLead, Mrs A. Leslie. Macfarlane and her daughter, Mrs lan Atkinson, Mrs Eric Millton, Mrs Terence Gresson, Mrs Hanmer Atkinson, Mrs R. C. Overton, Mrs David Gouid, Misses Pamela Hutchinson, Margaret Masefield, Mcßride (2). Barbara Blakely, Jennifer Johnston, and Darea Sherriff.