EPSOM

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 4, 5 July 1938, Page 16

EPSOM

SOME DRESSES

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, June .4.

Trips to the paddock are always interesting at Epsom, though access is a little difficult through the surrounding crowds. Om * fine day dress is quite. important SutA attractive, but, cf course, the Epsom Meeting is not such a dressy function as Royal Ascot. This week it has been necessary to prepare for rain, but in these days of coloured macintoshes and bright coloured umbrellas no one need look dingy. On Derby Day there was a large party.in the Royal Box, including the King and Queen, Queen Mary, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, the Princess Royal and the Earl of Harewocfd, Queen Victoria Eugenic, and the Infanta Maria Cristina, with an unusually large retinue of members of the household.

Queen Elizabeth wore a dress and coat of thin wool georgette in a very soft shade of turquoise, with a highpointed matching straw hat trimmed with ribbons, the deep fox collar of her coat being dyed turquoise of a slightly deeper tone. She wore a double row of beautiful pearls and had large pearl ear-rings. Queen Mary wore a sweetpea shade of blue tinted with mauve, and a toque to correspond. Queen Victoria Eugenic wore a dark blue coat and skirt, with a straw hat to match, and blue and white shoes'.

The Duchess of Gloucester had an Angora coat of real heather purple, a small felt hat of a little paler shade, and Isatih" slipper's to match. Her frock was of gay printed silk. The Duchess of Kent, in half-mourning,, wore a coat and skirt of white silk patterned lightly in black, a white straw hat with a drooping veil at one side, and a silver fox fur. The Princess Royal wore a becoming nattier blue ensemble —an accordion-pleated frock and three-quar-ter-length coat, a wide-brinimed hat of the same shade, trimmed with a wavy line of white ribbon.

There was a sprinkling of mulberry colour, one /Of the rich tones of wine purple which is so noticeable nowadays among flowers. Today again—Oaks Day—the King and Queen were present.