“Anything Goes” Dress At Night Trots

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30294, 21 November 1963, Page 2

“Anything Goes” Dress At Night Trots

The scores of women who spent much of yesterday wondering what to wear to a night race meeting found the answer was: anything goes. For the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s inaugural night at the Addington Raceway last evening, dressing ranged from the casual ease of headscarves, sweaters and slacks to formal cocktail wear.

If there is a “must” for night trots iit is the need for a comfortable pair of shoes for walking on concrete floors at the end of a day’s wonk. The ma jority of women patrons wore some kind of hat, whether a velvet bow and a wisp of veiling, a sequinned "Jackie" band, a floral headpiece or the when-in-daubt felt cloche, which is always part of any outdoor gathering in Canterbury. Fashion Medley Silk cocktail jacketdresses and theatre coats jostled with cardigans and cotton frocks, fur stoles over summer frocks mingled with

wool suits and poiplin raincoats at buffet tea and on the stands. Fashion did not matter in a surging mass of people who had gravitated to the biggest blaze of lights in New Zealand and racing in a medium new to Christchurch. * Mirs J. K, Davidson, wife of the club president, wore a black light-weight wool ensemble, a fur stole and a small, white, petal hat. Mrs R. W. Saunders, wife of the vice-president, wore a halo cooktail hat of midnight blue French feathers with her navy wool capecoat over a blue patterned silk frock.

Mrs W. M. OHivier, wife of the immediate past-presi-dent, chose a pillbox hat of beige and bronze-toned flowers with her black silk jacket-dress.

Guests and officials’ wives invited to the women’s box on the stewards’ stand included the following:—Mesdames C. 3. Thomas, C. E. Hoy, G. W. Baxall, D. McCormick, H. D. Matson, L. S. Smart, W. F. Stark, D. J. Dalglish, A. H. Finnie, H. F. Rutland, A. G. Jamieson, O. Hutchinson, A. J. Nicoll, W. E. Desmond, A. L. Matson, J. M. Louisson, J. R. Reeves (Sydney), and T. Early (Perth).