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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1254, 6 August 1910, Page 4

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DIViDKO SKIRTS CON DEFINED. \Xbf\T IS A PROPER COSTUME FOR A LADY? (rElt PRKSS ASSOCIATION.) Ancldand, August 5. Tl'.o oxoi-iiiivi- committee ol' tho Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral .\s:;o;iatj:)ii l:;id the temerity this aiLeriKMiii to ju'ohouik-o -on tlio sort ol : costumes in which lady competitors should cavort round the prize ving. At i!k- l:::-:t .sliow one during vounu; per-.-.iiii (Miisideriihly scandalised tho piihlif hy is isoineu-hnt unusual attire ■ivhicii more than trenched on the• gar--1 mou usually associated as the prerogative of the sterner sex. The Schedule Committee recommended that this year all riders should appear in proper riding costume. Mr K. .!). O'Korko said he had been yomev.-lr.vt shocked in looking over the Home papers to find that a lady had ridden in an exactly similar costume :!t the Horse Show'held at Olympia. H appeared that tlio Dominwn was once more hi the lead. Mr Pliilli])s remarked that if the Association had taken {-lie same stand ' in the past as they proposed to-day. Hie divided skirt would never liavo arrived. The President admitted that the side-saddle was as dead as mutton. hut this matter of what was a right and proper costume was on :i very different liKitiny. The question of deciding. who should say what was a proper riding c;i.'tuiiie lor a lady was raised, and evevv inemh.-'i- appealed to promjptly declined ilu> honour of adjiidicatin.u; on (his delicate matter. Finally it was resolved to word the schedule so is to leave no room for doubt that vhe oll'ejisive costume, under discussion would he quite a sufficient reason for disfjudiiyinii the fair rider.