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Ladies Day at the Races...

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  • #32
    KERSPLAT!
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Sorry, perhaps badly phrased, meant to ref to that subset who attend. They always featured women, and more recently there seems to be a trend for some competition for men, or more men are happy to be seen striding around at these events too.

    Know 4 or 5 who go regularly, and that number again who go to the local event in Killarney. I guess it's a bit of harmless fantasy, know one in particular who owes money left right and centre, has a string of judgements against her, and yet loves nothing better than the Facebook pics of her in borrowed finery. Must be galling for her creditors.

    And you by the sounds of it :)


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
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    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    And you by the sounds of it :)

    You've been here long enough to appreciate that it is only one of many many things that gall me...:D


  • #34
    gramar
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    I heard there's more riding going on in the stands than on the track on Ladies day.


  • #35
    Sleepy
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'd rather be in a bus load of angry feminists with hairy armpits on a hot day than spend a minute at Ladies Day at the Races.
    Ah come off it. At least there's a bar at the racetrack and it'd presumably be easier to escape from with ones balls still attached!

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  • #36
    Ann_Landers
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    Personally, I never think the Ladies' Day ladies look all that stylish. They always look all overly gussied up. Stylish to me is being able to throw on some jeans and a T-shirt and having tousled hair and still looking fucking sexy. Think nonchalant French girl.


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  • #37
    _Roz_
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    Ann_Landers wrote: »
    Personally, I never think the Ladies' Day ladies look all that stylish. They always look all overly gussied up. Stylish to me is being able to throw on some jeans and a T-shirt and having tousled hair and still looking fucking sexy. Think nonchalant French girl.

    Totally agree. They wear some nice dresses, but ridiculous head-pieces. Saw photos of the Killarney one and some girl was wearing a fascinator twice the size of her head. I'm fascinated by how it stayed on! Always reminds me of catwalk models - the sillier your outfit, the more 'stylish' you are.


  • #38
    topper75
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    Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »
    ... you get women interested and turn it into a glamour event as women aren't all that interested on betting from my experience.To be fair it genius marketing by the people involved in horse racing.
    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    It's a bit like Crufts only less skilled if we consider the pooches who do the obstacle courses.

    The next step is SO FcuKING OBVIOUS.

    And yet they are not doing it.


  • #39
    seachto7
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    The girlzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz who got their dresses at the boooooooteeeeeeeeq

    "And we LUUUUUV Baileys Minis!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!!"


  • #40
    gramar
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    Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »
    My thinking about it was that it presents the idea that it's a sport women should be interested in because they have a ladies day, rather than the day itself and fashion competition being the reason women would go.
    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    It's a bit like Crufts only less skilled if we consider the pooches who do the obstacle courses.
    topper75 wrote: »
    The next step is SO FcuKING OBVIOUS.

    And yet they are not doing it.

    I know...the track is already littered with obstacles!


  • #41
    goose2005
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    a bus load of angry feminists with hairy armpits on a hot day

    I saw that video years ago, have been trying to find it ever since


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  • #42
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,647 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    On the scale of things in the world to deplore, women dressing up to attend horse racing is pretty low down my radar.


  • #43
    Estrellita
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    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Always enjoyed the aftermatch of Ladies Day at Aintree

    https://www.google.ie/search?q=ladies+day+aintree&client=ms-android-samsung&prmd=inv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjR5NiO9pjVAhUJB8AKHWq_CPYQ_AUICigB&biw=320&bih=454

    Not a lady amongst them. If you had said those pictures were actually scenes from 'Big fat gypsy wedding' instead I would have believed you.


  • #44
    [Deleted User]
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    andekwarhola wrote: »
    On the scale of things in the world to deplore, women dressing up to attend horse racing is pretty low down my radar.

    I rank it behind the Holocaust but above the Syrian crisis.


  • #45
    ToddyDoody
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'd rather be in a bus load of angry feminists with hairy armpits on a hot day than spend a minute at Ladies Day at the Races.

    You can get dolled up too if you like.


  • #46
    take everything
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭take everything


    Fascinators aren't a bad narcissist/idiot filter.


  • #47
    r93kaey5p2izun
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    It's not something that appeals to me but I don't see the harm. I went to one once (not taking part in any competition) and found it very pretentious, boring and uncomfortable. I found it mad to have randomers asking about your outfit and looking to take photographs. The same names seem to crop up all the time in the paper/magazines so it appears to be a hobby for them. So long as they're not subsequently whinging about any critical comments they receive (as I have come across a few times) then let them at it.


  • #48
    SeanW
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    goose2005 wrote: »
    I saw that video years ago, have been trying to find it ever since
    Why? :confused:

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  • #49
    TheBiz
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    I went last year and this year.
    It's an excuse to get pissed and look fancy.

    A lot of my friends from college are coming, no one competes everyone just goes to go out that night.


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