SHOW RING COSTUMES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 888, 6 August 1910, Page 5

SHOW RING COSTUMES.

- DIVIDED SKIRT FORBIDDEN. (By Tetegrapa.—press Association.! Auckland, August C. The executive committee of the Auckland Agricultural and'. Pastoral Association had tho temerity this, afternoon to pronounce on the sort of costumes in ,which lady competitors should cavort round the prize-ring. At the last show one daring young lady rather startled some • people by a somewhat unusual attire, which more, than trenched on the garments usually regarded as the prerogative of the sterner sex. : The schedule committee recommended that this year all riders should appear "in proper riding costume." Mr, E. D. O'Rorke said he had been somewhat shocked in looking over the Home papers to find that a lady had ridden in an exactly similar costume at the horse show held at Olympia. It appeared that the Dominion was once more in the lead. Mr. Phillips stated that if the association had taken the same stand in the' _past as they proposed to-day the divided skirt would never have arrived. ._ . The president admitted that the sidesaddle was as dead as mutton, but this matter of what was right and proper costume was on a very different footing. * .

The .question of deciding who should say what was a proper riding costume for a lady was raised, and every member appealed to promptly declined the honour of adjudicating on this delicate matter. Finally it was resolved to word the schedule so as to -leave no room for doubt that the costume under discussion would be quite a sufficient reason for disqualifying the fair rider.