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With the Australian General Election over,\u00a0<\/span>we can turn our attentions to some other important matters of life, the Spring Racing Carnival…I have set my fashions on the field palaver amidst photos of some of the beautiful women I met in India last year. <\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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As some of you may know we have a part itsy – bitsy share (like a tail) of a racehorse…<\/div>\n
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We have had two previous horses and neither saw me galloping flat out around the shops in an absolute tizzy trying to work out what to wear…<\/div>\n
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The first horse was in the UK where British weather dictates a smart coat (or more likely a raincoat) will suffice…<\/div>\n
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The second was an Aussie horse, but let’s just say we were never remotely near the winners enclosure and leave it at that…<\/div>\n
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So this weekend I’ve been pondering frocks, hats and the rest.<\/div>\n
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Fashions on the Field is a big part of a day at the Aussie races, even for those not remotely interested in entering the famous competitions.<\/div>\n
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They say that over 26 million dollars was spent on hats, dresses and accessories for the Spring Racing Carnival in 2012<\/div>\n
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It is quite an industry, the stakes are high. You can win big, but even for a regular race goer like myself it’s a bit of a palaver…<\/div>\n
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For a start weather in Melbourne is entirely unpredictable and so the old adage<\/div>\n
‘Melbourne – four seasons in one day<\/em>‘ means it’s is hard to plan ahead<\/div>\n
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It is likely that the weather will be hot,<\/div>\n
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Requiring some work to be done before legs can be bared and toes can be peeping…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It used to be great that you could just plonk on a hat and forget about hair,<\/div>\n
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but now hats are so last year and the fascinators or hatinators replacements require a hairdo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Then not only do we have the horse entered for a rather big race in October<\/span><\/div>\n
but a few weeks earlier we’ve scored an invite from the Chairman of the Victorian Racing Club<\/span><\/div>\n
for Luncheon and Afternoon Tea in the Committee Room, Flemington<\/span><\/div>\n
(For those not in the know, the invite comes with details of appropriate attire, it’s Posh, with a capital P)<\/span>
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\n<\/span>I’ve got some pretty race dresses from ten years ago and I have an orange hat and a black hat (somewhere)<\/span>
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I am excited to read that vintage is big this year – does wearing ten year old clothes from the back of your wardrobe count as vintage, or is this just plain sad? (I’ll let you know)<\/span>
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Apparently I also need to have a different look for Spring racing than our previous outings in the Autumn<\/span><\/div>\n
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(Which is good because when Our Little Miss Hussy won in the autumn we didn’t make the winners enclosure, we’d already headed off to the Owners Bar.<\/span>
\nNo worries about being photographed in the same outfit twice!!!)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The quest to fit into clothes from 2003 is a long term project and won’t be achieved overnight (without surgery)<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Things I need to consider…<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n