Fashion

[BruceDelroySavage]

Seriously? does anyone actually give two hoots about fashion.

Would love to know what the theory is behind the relationship in Horse Racing, Fashion & a 3 hour slot on national TV.

[CrustyPatch]

Seriously? does anyone actually give two hoots about fashion.

…Yes, I do.
Televised racing isn’t just for men who want to bet.

If fashion is part of the character of certain meetings, such as Royal Ascot, Glorious Goodwood, York, Epsom and some Chester meetings, it’s entirely legitimate to reflect that in the TV coverage.
Fashion is an enormous part of certain meetings and it adds to the variety of the meetings for those who attend and for those who watch on television.
I quite like watching the fashion coverage, to be honest.
We are often told that racing has got to appeal to and attract many different types of people if it is to succeed in a competitive leisure market.
That’s surely at the heart of the current arguments about why so many courses are failing to attract a sufficient range of paying customers of all ages and social backgrounds.
Many small courses have successfully introduced and expanded Ladies’ Day meetings and they have nearly always proved major success stories.
Beverley’s Ladies’ Day fixture is one of its most popular meetings of its season, as is Market Rasen’s. Ladies’ Day fixtures at the bigger courses are also huge successes. By definition, the women will want to dress up in what they think is their finery and, if that meeting is being televised and they want to show off their outfits, why shouldn’t it form part of the TV coverage?
I’m deliberately keeping a straight face here and glossing over the tattoos, tramp stamps, mutton-dressed-as-lamb, boobs hanging out, dogs-out-for-a-party, chavs-tottering-about-in-high-heels-and-falling-over aspect as I know colleagues here will be queueing up to make these points for me.
The people who say that fashion has no place in TV racing coverage are being unnecessarily sniffy and intolerant. It takes all sorts to make a racing crowd.
If fashion-related themes and events help draw in a different and varied type of clientele, they should be encouraged, especially if the racecourse finances are boosted by the presence of people who would not otherwise attend.
I stress that I’m not including coachlands of beer-swilling potential hooligans in this.
Purse-lipped miseries who object to the fashion-motivated element and say that fashion coverage has no place on TV racing coverage because it dilutes the racing aspect for the purists and betting-motivated racegoers should realise that they are sometimes the same people who say that, if racing doesn’t adapt and try to appeal to a broader client base, attendances will suffer and racecourses will, er, close because they are no longer viable.
Sneering at and, by implication, wanting to exclude people who are putting money in the coffers of struggling racecourses through their enjoyment of the fashion aspect is, ultimately, self-defeating if we are talking about the success of race meetings and the profitability of racecourses.

[Ugly Mare]

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I’m deliberately keeping a straight face here and glossing over the tattoos, tramp stamps, mutton-dressed-as-lamb, boobs hanging out, dogs-out-for-a-party, chavs-tottering-about-in-high-heels-and-falling-over aspect as I know colleagues here will be queueing up to make these points for me.

…are you talking about men or women here, or both?
…even stevens to me….

[CrustyPatch]

…
I’m deliberately keeping a straight face here and glossing over the tattoos, tramp stamps, mutton-dressed-as-lamb, boobs hanging out, dogs-out-for-a-party, chavs-tottering-about-in-high-heels-and-falling-over aspect as I know colleagues here will be queueing up to make these points for me.

…are you talking about men or women here, or both?
…even stevens to me….

I think it would have to be a photo-finish, to be honest. You see some pretty horrific sights with both sexes, in all fairness.
TV fashion features tend to focus almost entirely on young and attractive women with perfect curves, for some reason, but the newspapers don’t hold back with plenty of pictures of the chav element, especially at Aintree.

[Ugly Mare]

I prefer Tanya’s colour matched outfit today, she looks really nice in it, as opposed to Emma’s. I’m not keen on these Philip Treacy Fascinator style hats full of antenna’s, and although out of date now, the old expression ‘blue and green should not be seen, without a colour in between’ still holds good for me, if one was to appear at a public reception for instance.
[o.k. in everyday life though]…

A white accessory would have been nice, although I’ve not seen her top to toe.

[BruceDelroySavage]

I prefer Tanya’s colour matched outfit today, she looks really nice in it, as opposed to Emma’s.

Tanya looks really nice, I agree.

[reetlass]

I agree. At least she didn’t appear to have a hat malfunction today. In her first presentations yesterday it was firmly attached to the side of her head, but later on it had migrated to the top. It was a windy day so maybe that was the reason

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