A Fashionable Day at the Races – Leave your hat on

Christchurch Casino New Zealand Trotting Cup Day is at Addington Raceway this Tuesday 13 November. Cup Day is known for FASHUN too:

Fashionistas get their chance to shine during the glamorous Westfield Riccarton Style Stakes Fashion and The Hits Body Art competitions.

Here is some last minute Cup Day fashion inspo, with a focus on hats, fascinators, titfers, and millinery:

Bill Cunningham - famed as a New York street fashion photographer as featured in doco Bill Cunningham New York - first found fame as a designer of ultra-arty and outlandish hats under the alias William J. His memoir Fashion Climbing: A New York Life has lots of juicy hat stuff.

And of course, if you are looking for a contemporary hat goddess, you can't go past the much-missed Isabella Blow.

LOVE this hat and veil combo worn by Adut Akech on the cover of British Vogue's December issue.

Adut Akech covers our December 2018 issue, hitting newsstand this Friday - photographed by Steven Meisel & styled by @Edward_Enninful. Celebrating Edward Enninful’s 1 year anniversary at the magazine, Vogue has released 4 very special covers #1YearNewVogue https://t.co/Svyr9aXM8B pic.twitter.com/R576xcloga

— British Vogue (@BritishVogue) November 5, 2018

You don't even have to visit a library to get ideas. We have eMagazines as well as magazines in print. OverDrive and PressReader feature a range of fashion eMagazines, online magazines and newspapers including Vogue Australia, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and more.

And how some historical inspiration - this stylish trio rocked Addington in the 1930s.

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