SUMMER DRESS AT SHOW

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29361, 14 November 1960, Page 2

SUMMER DRESS AT SHOW

Sandals, Light Shoes Popular

At last women are dressing sensibly for the Royal Show. People’s; Day in previous years has meant hot north-west conditions, to the discomfort of those women who insisted on wearing high-heeled shoes. But the most popular outfit at the show on

Friday was summer dress and sandals or light, flat shoes. A few girls, however, let their vanity get the better of them and wore their newest stilettoheeled shoes. Many danity ensembles were seen, with shoes matching handbags or gloves. The same girls were seen late in the afternoon hobbling miserably towards the exit .gates. Some were carrying their shoes. A pair of slender black suede shoes complemented a full-skirted cotton dress in bronze shades worn by one girl It was unfortunate that she was walking on the dustiest path in the grounds. Other girls—and older women—were seen picking their way in their high heels over the stones and the litter of ice cream packets.

The constant coming and going between the Show Grounds, and the trotting grounds made for a mixture of fashions. As skirts _£nd sandals were seen ait the trotting, so high, flowered hats and fur stoles joined with the blare and dust of side-show alley. Fashion sense, in terms of suitability and comfort, was best seen on the first two days of the show. One particularly pleasing outfit was a suit of cream slub linen worn with cream and tan spectator shoes and a slouch hat of mint green straw with matching handbag. Very few shoes with more than two-inch heels were seen.

Those girls who wore their beach sandals and their cotton skirts on Friday were, in the true sense of the world, fashionably dressed. -People’s Day is the climax of carnival week, and their gay colours and casual air enhanced the atmosphere of the Show Grounds.