This picture is on the front page of the Irish Times this morning. It features the ladies who were 2nd, 1st and 3rd in the Best Dressed Lady competition at the RDS Horse Show.
Really? The girl in the middle has a doodle on her head. The one on the right (doesn’t she look exactly like Anne-Marie Hourihane?) is wearing a tablecloth from a Truckers Cafe.
I happened to see Ladies day at Ascot this year, where the ladies all sported hats that looked as though they’d needed scaffolding to put them together. Some women wore what appeared to be the Mothership from Independence Day, while others went for the “I’m wearing the whole Botanic Gardens” look.
Have these harmless competitions by all means, but don’t call it a Best Dressed competition. Call it Most Strikingly Dressed, or Bravest Dressed, or the Silliest Dressed, or I’ve-Just-Won-A Bet-By-Wearing This Dressed.
And let’s have one for the blokes. I’ll go dressed as a Dalek.
I would kill for that purple dress on the left.
I don’t wear hats, either.
Comment by Medbh — August 14, 2008 @ 8:28 pm
Yeah Medbh, it would have been better if I could have found something scathing to say about all three outfits, but I also looked at the purple dress and thought, well OK, this actually IS nice.
Comment by tinman18 — August 15, 2008 @ 8:51 am
they all have very very silly hats though.
Comment by morgor — August 17, 2008 @ 2:43 pm
Well, I’d have thought the purpose of a hat was to protect you from the sun/rain, and to keep your head warm, and I can’t see these doing either.
It would be funny, though, to watch the middle girl chase her hat down the street on a windy day.
Comment by tinman18 — August 17, 2008 @ 3:03 pm