Rotten Row Styles

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 25, 29 July 1933, Page 19

Rotten Row Styles

There is still need for improvement in the dress of riders ia Rotten Bow, in the view • of. Sir Walter Gilbey (states an exchange). Speaking at a luncheon in .connection'with the.London cart horse parade recently, ho revealed tliat as ,a result of his criticism last year he received over 2000 letters, and over 1000 newspapers published his remarks. 'Correspondence had come even from Japan. • ■ -

"I do not wish to be egotistical," said Sir Walter, "but I do perceive some improvement as regards the Row, especially in the show rings and among the children) but it is most1 regrettable that there still exists a largo number of the 'no hat brigade.' "I happened to bo in the Row the Sunday before the Derby week, when there were more people than at any other time in the year, and I was horrified to see a lady—a female —(laughter) riding in a dress, si\k stockings, and goodness knows what hat, and another female with a pullover, red, white, and blue stripes as big as that"—(he indicated the size with his hand) —"quite a sight only for the gods, riding up and down.

"Then I saw a great many youths, hatless, galloping and cantering the whole time I was in the park. Both they and the horses were exhausted, and I do not know which was the more sore. They had the most elementary idea of riding. Really to my mind it is an atrocity."

Seven hundred of London's cart horses were on parade in Regentfs Park, an assembly of gay ribbons and tuneful jinglings. The drivers made a &&y of it, bringing their families and •picnicking, in their vehicles. '....•