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I wear trousers and a shirt (no tie) but for winter AW meetings i’ll wear the same with a cardigan or jumper on.
Find dress codes alienating – part of racings obsession with the past; usually those wearing suits somewhere like Uttoxeter are the once a year crowd imho.
Agree with Jeremy – think people should be covered but beyond that it should be up to them.
For what it’s worth I usually wear jeans and a collared shirt with jacket or coat and think that’s perfectly presentable.
Interestingly, I don’t think any racecourse has an explicit ban on the combination of short skirt/no knickers. Any thoughts on how this affects the raceday experience?
It saves me having to queue for the gents.
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Interestingly, I don’t think any racecourse has an explicit ban on the combination of short skirt/no knickers. Any thoughts on how this affects the raceday experience?
I think it is mandatory for "ladies" day at Aintree
Actually, I think they do in the Royal Enclosure at Royal Ascot. You certainly can’t wear a very short skirt, and I think I remember the knickers rule being discussed on telly a couple of years ago, along the lines of how can you tell.
I walked out on York before the end of Wednesday due to being expected to continue to wear a jacket and tie when the temperatures were soaring. I was not alone.
Agree wholeheartedly that the severe dress restrictions on many racecourses are antiquated, unnecessary, even unacceptable.
But there is a simple alternative at York: spend your day in Tatts.
Yes; I was dead happy in Tatts in my jeans [albeit my bestest per una jeans]. Probably safer wearing a tie anyway..I got horribly sunburnt round my neck.
The idea that the requirement to wear a jacket and tie will restrict the audience to a ‘better class of person’ is laughable! How many well-dressed, cocaine-snorting boneheads are there in the members enclosure at Newmarket on any given Saturday?
It’s like saying that the owner of a £30K 4×4 is automatically a better driver than somebody who drives a budget model of car.
Get real.
But there is a simple alternative at York: spend your day in Tatts.
Good grief, Gumshield. Do you know the kind of people that go to those places? On the day in question I bumped into a guy wearing t-shirt, faded cords and some sort of a floppy cricket hat thing. He had somehow escaped from Tatts and appeared to be faking an interest in the horses in the preliminaries.
Ghastly. Absolutely ghastly.
Perhaps a single enclosure at all courses, with entry dependent on the ability to pay plus a swipe of a national ID card to indicate that the entrant doesn’t have a criminal record.
Mind you, that might discount a significant number of the moneyed ‘classes’ and, if we had a fair, honest society, the Royals too.
Anyone caught wearing a bowler hat or a trilby should be ejected from the racecourse.
Anyone caught wearing a bowler hat or a trilby should be ejected from the racecourse.
well that rules out 75% of the judges then – let’s hope there are fewer photo finishes
Hamilton Racecourse gets its fair share of Smartly dressed folks…… just everyone looks the same as its what’s in stock at the local Primarks!!!
If my memory isn’t playing tricks wih me, I seem to remember in the blazing hot summer of 1990, when racegoers attending a certain enclosure at Newcastle were asked to wear a jacket and tie. It was 41c!!!!
As I’m usually working when I’m at the races, either for Christian or myself, or have one of the syndicate horses running, I generally get myself ‘suited and booted’, but that’s just my own choice. To be honest, if you start saying you have to wear this or that, you’re in danger of alienating certain types of racegoers. When I get the chance for a purely recreational visit, then I tend to dress smart-ish, but I do tend to lose the tie. I’m not the sort of person to wear jeans and T-Shirt at a racecourse, but then again, that’s just my own personal choice. And wouldn’t life be boring if we were all the same!!!
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Vomit and snot coloured tweeds should be banned. Also those stupid big furry hats women of a certain age wear
Tracky bottoms and england shirts should be the requirement for Ascot royal enclosure
There’s a group of us going for QE2 day on the 26th and we have tickets in the Premier enclosure. I know that Ascot say that you need to dress as if for a smart occasion and that "….many Gentlemen wear a shirt and tie" but is wearing a tie compulsory?
I don’t mind wearing a shirt but could do without having to wear a tie if possible. Anyone’s advice would be appreciated, thanks!
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