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Arriving In Royal Style

By: Chelsea Michaels

Royal Ascot is consider as deep rooted, dreadfully British traditions that set us apart from other europeannations. The official nature of Royal Ascot illustrates just how important it is of having the Royal Family out in public, in action amongst the ordinary people . The huge amount of news coverage of the entrances by horse draw carriage, commentary about who’s wearing what, hats of course, and a comprehensive sophistication and elegant nature that conceals the real purpose, which is having a bet.

The Royals give an inevitably dignified edge to the proceeding and are as a whole, involved with horses. At Royal Ascot however, our Royal Family are more significant in that they determine parts of the day with a strong bearing on the fashion. The Royal Family are not generally known as trend setters when it comes to fashion but Royal Ascot is their time when it comes to showing the world just what it means to dress and act in a distinguished manner.

Mr James Sherwood, a renowned fashion guru remarked about Her Royal Highness The Queen, `In the last 10 years the queen has bloomed and looks both happy and glorious. This is thanks largely to her dresser Angela Kelly and younger designers such as Stewart Parvin. As Miuccia Prada recently said, the Queen is modestly the most elegant woman on the planet.`

James is one of the commentator at Royal Ascot for the BBC and explained `It is the people who try to dress outrageously to get on the television who I usually have the harshest words for.` with such a critical eye, there are many cautions from all style guru’s that to dress for Royal Ascot is all about remaining within those all important rules for the Royal Enclosure.

The guidelines are to encourage the anti-‘WAG’ feeling and up keep the sense of occasion. For women any strapless, halter necked, spaghetti strapped necklines are not welcomed. All stomach area’s must be clothed and trousers must be to the floor and preferably part of a suit. Skirts or dress hem lines must be only two inch above the knee and bare legs are against guidelines. Women must be dressed in a traditional hat or "substantial fascinators." The guide also frowns upon streaky tan lines, chewing gum, using mobile phones and notes that pants are appropriate but we have no need to see them.

Her Majesty opted for pastels as did the Duchess of Cornwall, Princess Anne, The Countess of Wessex and a few other minor royals. However, much was made of the more youthful female Royals in particular Zara Phillips who had been noted as a Royal rebel in the past showed herself to be incredibly stylish and chic in her 50’s inspired outfit. It was Eugenie’s hem line that raised a few eyebrows as it could be considered slightly short for the occasion and possibly more than two inch above the knee, but the Royal Ascot spokesperson declared to not have seen the dress in question and claimed "As long as it is not a miniskirt and is in keeping with the rest of the outfit then the wearer would be allowed into the Royal Enclosure."

Chelsea is a part-time writer, writing occassional columns on anythingequine.co.uk, who specialise in a range of horse tacks and chaps.

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