For those of you involved in the normal social whirl, you will have pressed your posh frocks and dusted down the topper and tails – the season has started.
From Queen’s Club to Ascot, from Wimbledon to Henley the great and the good (or those on the entertaining budget) emerge, parade, drink and retire. Mens’ clothes shops within about 50 miles of Ascot advertise morning dress hire at varying rates and the scene at Waterloo on Ladies’ Day has to be seen to be believed, more hats per square yard of concourse than a sale day in the Harrods’ millinery department.
