Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]
… Hall observed that the company on a field day ‘go out with as much ceremony as to court, their hair always being dressed’. 2 And the post-hunt socialising was no less glamorous: the start of the Quorn’s hunting season, for example, … County of Leicester, 4 vols. (London, 1795-1815, iii), p. 101n. For most of the eighteenth century there was no formal dress code, beyond the need to be seen in fine attire, but in the final decades of the century, foxhunters switched to … gentleman would scarcely be found within their midst. Packs were not socially integrative affairs – subscriptions, dress codes, and the custom of accepting new members only by invitation all helped to ensure that every foxhunting man …
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