The Moiré Edit

Race Fashion

Tweed, tall hats and Bright Tomato — the definitive guide to dressing for the 2026 racing season, on both sides of the Irish Sea.

Dawn, Davinia and Cleo Knight at the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby Festival
Race Fashion

Keeping Up with the Knights

A rented dress won €10,000 at Galway. A charity-shop hat won a weekend at Ashford Castle. A pair of curtains won a sustainability title at the Curragh. Three sisters from Portarlington on how they actually do it - and why the one who left school with fewer than 100 points has the most to say.

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Two Days at the Curragh

The Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby weekend ran two style competitions. A pink Irish linen suit made in Naples, worn with shoes from Marks & Spencer, won Saturday's open award - and its winner was the only man among ten finalists.

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Race Style & Social: The Account Documenting Irish Race Fashion

2,363 posts across fifteen racecourses. Inside the vertical-video operation that has quietly built the fullest record of what Ireland actually wears to the races.

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A bay thoroughbred in a bridle, photographed against a black background
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Killarney's Best Dressed Day 2026: Two Winners Under the Reeks

Sylvia Novak took the Canella Lane title in Rita Daly millinery and recycled-plastic jewellery. Gary Moynihan took the men's in burgundy and navy. Judged, on the most scenic track in Ireland, by two women who came to it from very different directions.

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Women in vivid dresses and elaborate hats at a racecourse
Race Fashion

Galway Races 2026: Two Winners, and a Shift in Irish Race Style

€13,000 in prizes, 124,745 racegoers and a week at Ballybrit that traded last year's make-do-and-mend charm for something altogether more bespoke.

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Katie Young: 2026 Ashford Castle Style Icon at The Curragh

When the first style crown of the Irish flat season was handed out at The Curragh, it went to the quietest look on the lawn — and that was precisely the point.

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Royal Ascot 2026: Bright Tomato and The Art of Dressing Well

Bright Tomato, Erin O'Connor MBE, and a new style handbook — Royal Ascot 2026 rewrote its own rules while honouring everything that makes it irreplaceable.

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Cheltenham Festival 2026: Tweed, Fedoras and the Irish Contingent

The most stylish fixture in the jump racing calendar — heritage tweeds, felt fedoras, and the Irish contingent who stole every enclosure they entered.

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