Nor is this problem a fanciful one, for it confronted the ladies during the Olympic Games, when they made ready with summer dresses on the reckoning that the Games would take place in the summer season — and the month of the Games turned out to be a cold, wintry month. For that reason the fashion houses were obliged to run ahead of the

winter season and make the coming winter's fashions in summer, in order to display the stamp of the Englishwoman at that world festival.

These two pictures show some of the winter fashions created for that occasion, which appeared at the boat-race gathering.