Radio personality Mel Greig “popped her Birdcage cherry” last week when she attended Oaks Day.
Writing in her weekly Yahoo Lifestyle column, the 36-year-old shared details of her day at Flemington Racecourse… And also let slip that she made a wee bit of a fashion blooper.
You see, different race days have different fashion ‘rules’. Derby Day has a monochrome theme, Melbourne Cup Day is for “strong fashion statements” and Oaks Day is Ladies’ Day. It’s all about femininity – think pastels, florals and silky fabrics.
Greig wrote that she hadn’t realised there were so many different rules, which is how she ended up accidentally ‘breaking’ one of them.
“It’s also apparently frowned upon if you show too much boob or too much leg,” she wrote about the Oaks Day rule that should definitely not be a thing.
“I wasn’t aware of this until two days before the races which resulted in 3 costume changes. The morning that I flew to Melbourne, my final option arrived and the colour was on point but I had boobs trying to escape and it was too late to change it.”
She attended the event wearing a pastel pink blazer mini-dress and honestly, forget the rules. She looked bloody fantastic. And why shouldn’t women be able to wear whatever the heck they want?
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This is like that blogger who turned up to the Louvre dressed like a hooker and then was faux-outraged when she was turned away for being inappropriately dressed. Surely some things are obvious...?
If turned away at all.
Obviously the first thing I thought was Madonna in A League of their Own and the "oops, my bosoms come flying out" scene - I have an eye for important details like that.
That dress is a size too small.
Women can't 'wear whatever they want' and neither can men.. we live in a society that has explicit and implicit rules about what we can wear to work, to school, to functions and by the law i.e. indecent exposure. It's called being a grown up (or being raised by a grown up) and abiding by the social contract.