GREAT ASCOT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18352, 24 August 1929, Page 12

GREAT ASCOT

THE LAST PICTURE. The last picture of Ascot, written by a well-known writer at Home, is of especial interest as it gives his idea of the perfect type of English woman. “A woman stands in the Royal box with a wide picture hat, and a frock of fluttering chiffon in pastel shades of pink and blue. She is a very royal and lovely figure—a perfect type of English woman. By her side is Lord Lascelles; it is Princess Mary—and today, in this festival of youth and gaiety, among these crowds of good sterling quality and breed, Princess Mary, that centre figure in the Royal box, looks indeed a King’s daughter. “Every nationality in the world seems to be repi rented under this clear sky. By my side a woman who has that indescribable French cachet about her, urges her companion to ‘put ze monay on ze ’oss wiz ze green because I ’af ze green dress to-day.’ A woman, beautiful as a tree in the wind, who wears her chiffon frock alone among all that crowd as it should be worn, languidly and with an ‘air’, passes by me, leaving the vague delicious perfume of orange-groves under a southern sky; she speaks in that tender, lilting South American Spanish to the man by her side. “Ascot—the feast of summer—pastel flounced chiffons and lace—the sudden silky sheen of light upon a horse’s satin flanks—these things are its ritual, and above all permeating all, and indefinable sense of bien etre. There the joy of living, the vibrant warmth of sunshine and the unforgettable smell of English grass.”