GRAND NATIONAL

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 35, 10 August 1933, Page 15

GRAND NATIONAL

RICCAfiTON FASHIONS

HUNT CLUB BALL

A feeling of bouyancy, a general air of expectancy and of adventure were perceptible amongst the great crowd that attended the Canterbury Jockey Club's Grand National meeting held at the Kiccarton race-course on Tuesday (states the "Christchurch Press"). Many visitors from all parts of the Dominion had bee% arriving in Christchurch during the last few days, all looking forward to New Zealand's most important steeplechase meeting. The frocking was interesting, the millinery much more so! Cheeks, large and small, broken and regular, veritably stormed Fashion's citadel with excellent effect, while stripes, generally in three colours on a neutral ground, were remarkably smart, and were strongly challenged by plaids, often in light design. Woollen materials from the.heaviest weaves to; the featherweight variety were popular, those with crinkly and nobby surfaces being greatly favoured. In colours, browns' and blues, in a bewildering range of sliades, were most popular, greys and yellows stood out in effective relief, and there was a surprising dearth of black. Hats were undeniably intriguing. Plain shapes, with moderate brims, dipping slightly at the side of tho front held their own fairly successfully, but tiny hats, clinging perilously to permanent waves, tip-tilted hats trimmed under the brim at the back, hats that fairly, cut, off the sight of one eye, hats with square crowns and with hardly any crown at all, and hats with quills, standing up or lying down, all were exploited, and most of them were very attractive. Beneath them appeared rows of curls, or colls and rolls of hair. ' . Then "pussy cat" bows at high necklines, gloves of velvet, and blouses darker than the accompanying suits we're new notes that added to the general smartness of.the crowd. One fact was undeniable. The feminine Bilhouctte has' changed. A BKHiMANT OATHERING. In the evening the Christchurch Hunt Club ball was held ia the Winter Garden, and proved to be a brilliant gathering attended by a large proportion of visitors to Christchurch for the races. The correct sporting atmosphere was created in the ballroom, around which was arranged a frieze of hunting pink, silhouetted with gallant hunters galloping across paddocks, jumping hurdles and bush fonces," even stumbling and tossing their mounts into nearby ditches. Around the buffet were arranged bowls of gorse, and crystal candlesticks with shades of hunting pink lit the supper tables, ' where, amongst other delicacies, was served kedgeree, reported to be the most popular supper dish in London this winter. There were two debutantes—Miss Margaret McLean, of Waimate, and Miss Patricia Comerford, of Suinncr.