Neo Fashion Blog

If you have the fortune to be invited by some rich friends to a polo match you don’t want to feel like a fool by going over board with what you put on. You are not attending Ascot so you don’t have to wear your best fineries but at the same time there are a lot of people who go there not to see the horses but just to be seen and to look at other people so you want at least to look informal but elegant at the same time.It’s a bit of a snobbish world out there on the polo fields.

It’s a place where there are horses all over the place and horses leave their mark on the grass just as cows do, so you firstly do not want to wear any high heels. There is also an old custom in polo whereby once a chukka is over (one of four of 7 minutes of play) all the audience have to go out onto the fields to push back the divots of grass that have been lifted up by the hooves of the horses charging up and down the field. So you just couldn’t wear heels for this and instead a nice pair of flat moccasins or pump shoes with a small elegant bow on top would be just the right thing. And what to wear with flat shoes and still look elegant. Well if it’s summer something like a white linen pencil skirt just above the knees and maybe with a slit at the back coupled with a stiff white cotton shirt rolled up at the sleeves to just below the elbow would be just fine and worn with a pair of Ray Ban sunglasses you will look just right for the part.

For a winter match it’s best to choose flat brown baggy boots and wear a just below the knee flowing skirt in say chocolate brown with a white blouse, short tweed jacket and a beige pashmina slung around your shoulder.