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...bride's sister-in-law, Queen Helen of Rumania would be obliged to 1) appear with her eccentric, unfaithful husband King Carol, or 2) hide away. Last week she avoided both embarrassments by going to the home of her mother, onetime Dowager Queen Sophie of Greece, at Ascot, England. In October she will return to Bucharest for her son, Prince Mihai's tenth birthday...
...will perhaps be in charge of his aunt, a large dowager to whom this represents the last great event of the Season. She will have been to the Private View of the Royal Academy, to Ascot, to at least one of the Courts, and her flowered garden party frocks (indispensable to London ladies in the Season) will have been put through a strenuous series of functions. She will be glad when she can get off to the country, for during these three days she will find her hands full with taking her nephew to teashops, grill-rooms, music halls. After...
Smartest Englishwomen appeared at Royal Ascot on the third day of the races last week in short frocks...
Only the indomitable English "lower classes'' made a lark of the Ascot deluge. Nips of whiskey were not disdained by young or old. As groaning busses got under way both men and women removed major portions of their outer clothing, hilariously hung them up to dry, rattled flapping and roistering home...
Admitting that short frocks only were smart on the third (post-deluge) day (which incidentally was fine),the Conservative Evening Standard's male representative at Ascot described as follows for readers who include most of the peerage what seemed to him to be the actual mode this year: "A tight-fitting bodice of transparent muslin with a skirt which may be made in one of two ways: either it is a mass of narrow frills from waist to hem or is gathered at the waist and flows outward, measuring goodness knows how many yards in circumference around the feet...