SECOND DAY
FUR-CLAD RACEGOERS
Luxurious mink, broadtail, and squirrel coats brushed against many less sophisticated furs as their wearers, some shod in serviceable brogues and others in pert, high-heeled creations, milled about in the crowd on the lawn before the totalisator at Trentham racecourse yesterday. , The weather being very . cold there were few people , present who were not fur clad, and so it was a comparatively soberly-clad > gathering. Colours were subdued but accessories were bright and varied, scarves in chiffon, .georgette, and light materials being tucked in at the neckline of smart suits and under darker coats. Violets, sprays of daphne, and exotic orchids were worn in many lapels, and here and there a bud or tiny cluster was worn as a buttonhole by one of the men present.
Mrs. Erie Riddiford, wife of the president of the Wellington Racing Club,. wore a very smart tailored suit of pepper arid salt tweed with a fine overcheck of red and blue. With it
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 7, 8 July 1938, Page 14
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162SECOND DAY Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 7, 8 July 1938, Page 14
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