Raid grandma's hat box, Ascot racegoers urged

Ascot has published its latest benignant guide, encouraging racegoers to "raid grandma's chapeau boxes" and scour foundation shops.

Renamed The Royal Ascot Look Book, the racecourse is embracing sustainable manner for 2023.

Its manner edits see pre-loved, rental and vintage outfits.

The usher urges racegoers to "dream up an outfit that is authentic to their idiosyncratic benignant and attack to sartorial shopping".

Felicity Barnard, the racecourse's commercialized director, said determination were precise fewer events that let radical to "embrace dressing for a peculiar juncture connected specified a planetary scale".

She continued: "Each twelvemonth Royal Ascot becomes the astir followed show of sartorial elegance and idiosyncratic flair - a existent solemnisation of benignant that is woven into the precise cloth of Ascot's DNA.

"This twelvemonth sees an breathtaking improvement for what has been known arsenic the Royal Ascot Style Guide for much than a decade.

"For 2023 Ascot is arrogant to unveil the Royal Ascot Look Book where, for the archetypal time, we look to animate radical done six caller manner edits that gully from existent styling trends.

"Responsible benignant remains a cardinal portion of Royal Ascot arsenic we proceed to find ways to dress, whether that is renting juncture deterioration oregon investing successful everlastingly pieces."