1. Decide on your budget Are you competing in Fashions on the Field (FOTF) or are you attending just for fun? If you’re planning on entering FOTF, be prepared to commit to spending more on your overall look; in the region of several hundred dollars with your custom-made dress and/or millinery. If you are just looking to have fun and look good, you can actually rent millinery and dresses online. I’d recommend millinerymarket.com.au for your headpiece and dressforanight.com.a … Read more

The Fashions on the Field Competition is where you’ll always find me on race day and the Toowoomba Weetwood is the highlight of my racing calendar. Each racing event I attend, I fashion together an outfit that suits my colouring, body shape, and the seasonality of the race day. This year, I fell in love with a piece of millinery and developed my idea around the headpiece. A closer look at my millinery, created by Johanna Guerin called “Autumn Cascade”. … Read more

When it comes to Racedays, I can't think of anything more exciting than Fashions on the Field (FOTF). For many, the FOTF is just the sideshow with the racing as the main event - however for me, it's completely the other way around! No amount of silk, leather, felt, straw, quills and feathers is ever too much! You'll find me entering FOTF every chance I get and so far, I have a 90% success rate of making it through to the Finals, winning Runner Up in the 2015 Melbourne Cup in Toowoomba at Cli … Read more