Account of race day fashion at the 1914 Caulfield Cup

By Ian Warden
Updated April 23 2018 - 9:50pm, first published October 19 2014 - 11:45pm

Today's race-going damsels (pictured) dress gaily and extravagantly for Melbourne's spring racing carnival. But 100 years ago today the Town and Country Journal found the previous Saturday's 1914 Caulfield Cup fashions spoiled by the war and the weather.

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