WOMEN'S EQUESTRIAN TESTS.
Beauty, elegance, and fashion enjoyed a spell of rare summerlike brilliance in the Bois' de Boulogne yesterday, arid the scene at the Avenue det Poteaux, where the women's horse-rid-ing competition, organised by "La Liberte," "as held, was a composition of charming animation and colour. Come to demonstrate their grace and skill as horsewomen, their style and elegance of dress, and the finished neatness of their mounts, thirty fair amazones paraded in the saddle before a group of distinguished French sportsmen and arbiters of fashion who were the judges. There was a marked variety of costumes in which the past and present sharply contrasted. One rider supplied the bold masculine touch by riding astride in a grey suit with long trousers, another wore a man's suit with breeches and leggings, but she rode Ride-saddle, but the majority galloped by, or rode their steeds at a walking pace, in time-honoured habits of various designs and hues. The first prize was awarded to Mile. Molitor, who wore a neat, full woman's dress with a bowler and white cravat, and gracefully rode a perfectly groomed mount. The second prize went to Mme. Dorange, and tho third to Mile. Longerue.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 7
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198WOMEN'S EQUESTRIAN TESTS. Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 7
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