A devoted reader can learn that players also wore an eye shade (Helen Wills Moody, 1927-38), a white jockey cap (Alice Marble, 1939), a straw hat (M.E.A. Watson, 1884), and a cloche hat (Suzanne Lenglen, 1919).
Dick Diver, "a fine man in a jockey cap and red striped tights," regularly rakes stones from the sand.
Even jockey caps were decked out with feathers.
Erika, who is unassuming and favors wooden ear plugs and tweed jockey caps, is Grundy.
His debut collection (go to www.chris-benz.com) was inspired by old-school glamour: the jazz-era shirtdresses, mohair jackets, mink jockey caps and twill jodhpurs had a flapper-meets-slacker vibe that never seemed stagey.
We are all familiar with quilts that anthologise a family's old clothes, or commemorate its story through births or marriages; with quilts as complex pixellations of colour, tone and shape, patterned in jockey's cap or sawtooth star.
His painting "For the Track" (1895), with its torn racing posters, worn-out horseshoe and rose-colored jockey's cap hung on a weathered wall, is an elegy to chances lost, an emblem of fleeting time passing and a hint of painterly realism's more sober, speculative side.
Ms. Piaggi recently wore a white organdy hat suggesting a sailboat (below) to an America's Cup luncheon; a Dada-style cup and saucer (near left) covered in newspaper-printed fabric for a book party; and, at the Dior show opposite the Eiffel tower last month, a miniature jockey's cap with a millennium scarf.
A large neon sign with red letters: "Sports Bets," and there were pictures in the window of soccer players, boxers, and a big horse galloping along with a jockey wearing a cap, bent low over the horse's back and seeming to fuse with the horse.
Winning the jockeys' title will cap a triumphant end to a season which began with Hughes serving out a 50-day riding ban incurred in India for not riding to instructions, an offence not punishable under British rules.
"In other words, a chap who claims to be a jockey and wears a jockey's cap but sits facing the horse's tail is not a jockey".
