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...council types and administration higher-ups—who, let’s face it, are the same people who were locked in a library for their undergraduate careers and think “getting out of hand” involves too much good sherry and a risqué ascot...
Sporting a nautical outfit with a polka-dotted ascot and docksiders, the Ferrell’s ensemble was completed by a sailor’s hat perched atop his curly brown hair...
Some attendees at the 291-year-old Royal Ascot horse races in Berkshire, England, last week got a dressing down for outfits that weren't up to code: hats for women, top hats and morning coats for men. The tradition-bound Queen instructed officials to bounce a BBC camera team from her official paddock because the men sported open collars. Also turned away were Rod Stewart, in a blue-striped coat, and his girlfriend, hatless photographer Penny Lancaster, left. The couple didn't intend to enter the paddock, Lancaster said, but "just got a bit lost." Of no concern...
...Quentin S. Granta ’02 makes quite a spectacle of himself, constantly dressed to the nines in a yachting costume. “Do you like my new ascot?” he asked Jim D. Grimm ’03 as he vainly and uselessly attempted to direct traffic airplane-landing-style at the Fly Saturday night. Responded Grimm: “Stick it up your porthole, cap?...
Outwardly, though, a NASCAR car looks like any old car wearing a sweater of decals, and in NASCAR racing there is little psychic distance between the superstar and the fan in the stands. The popular image of the European Grand Prix circuit, with its dukes and duchesses and ascot-wearing playboy drivers, is as foreign to NASCAR as Bordeaux is to Bud. NASCAR in America is religion, replete with charismatic figures, creeds and commandments about how life should be lived...