I saw her at ascot this year, and I was quite struck by the way she was wearing.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Cards' flat was splendid-everything in it from its grey ascot trouserings kind of wall paper to its beautiful old chairs and its beautiful old china was of the very best-and Cards himself, in a dark blue suit with a black tie and a while pearl and white spats on his shining gleaming shoes, just ready to go out and startle Piccadilly was of the very best.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
The fashion began at Longchamps and at ascot, where, especially at the former place, a lady was privileged to sit in her victoria, with her lilac silk full ruffled to the waist, in the most perfect and aristocratic seclusion.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood