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Parading at Ladies Day, a racegoer and her (oh so tasteful) display of body art
With her intricate gold hat carefully chosen to match the trim on her dress, this racegoer had pulled out all the stops for Ladies Day.
But with a large tattoo sprawled across her back, thea Pearce’s ensemble would not have got the royal seal of approval – even if her inking did feature an English lion.
Visible tattoos and strapless dresses are both banned inside the Royal Enclosure, the area where royals and aristocrats gather during the races. its strict dress code states that women must wear dresses no shorter than just below the knee, and that dress straps should be at least an inch in width.
Make-up artist Miss Pearce, 38, from Stamford, Lincolnshire, said her detailed tattoo – which also featured feathers, jewels and a crescent moon – represented ‘strength, freedom, power and happiness’.
A crowd of 64,503 flocked to Ascot for Ladies Day. this year the ‘hatinator’ – a hybrid between a hat and a fascinator – dominated, with hundreds ditching the traditional look for a more quirky headpiece. Ellie Fennell, of milliner Bundle Maclaren, said: ‘high profile, stylish hat wearers such as the Duchess of Cambridge ... have shown how smaller hats can still make a real statement leading to increasing demand for ... “hatinators”.’
the Queen herself combined tradition with style, wearing a bold orange hat with blue details made by her milliner Angela Kelly.
however the day came to a sad end when the Queen’s horse Guy Fawkes had to be put down following a fracture in the King George V Stakes.