Even the professionally stuffy organizers of Royal Ascot have suggested they relax the race days stifling dress code this year which, in the Royal Enclosure, would normally require black or grey morning dress, including a waistcoat, tie and top hat at all times
Sadly this comes as no surprise to me, or anyone else in the museum world! fashion historian Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, author of Worn on This Day: The Clothes That Made History, wrote in an email to The Times on Tuesday
The shirt body features a neat point collar and concealed front placket, while the high-waist, panelled corset creates angular front points and a sculpted profile
I love the ruffle at the bottom and the otherwise clean lines of the dress
Lets have a look at the data and find out