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 Social classes at Melbourne Cup run a gamut..

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PostSubject: Social classes at Melbourne Cup run a gamut..   Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:48 pm

Olivia, of course, was alongside the upper-crusty set. (enjoy it, ma'am!)

"Economy is the free-to-air section, where what you get is what you pay for. Premium economy, a little bit classier, is what you might find in parts of the car park and the members'.

Business is represented by other parts of the car park (luxury models only, please) and some of the smaller marquees in the Birdcage - the ones without any view of the track and with recorded, rather than live, music. First is the world of the track-facing marquees, with their own music, flush toilets and extensive decor designed to look as if the structure is there all year instead of all week.

Then there are areas of such exclusivity they defy classification. The VRC committee room, for example, is Flemington's version of the private jet: the domain of the very, very privileged who must dress accordingly and know the correct way to eat asparagus spears.

The Emirates marquee could be private jet material, but it is more one big first-class suite, jammed with the rich, famous, almost-famous, the you-look-familiars and, what Barry Humphries once referred to as a contradiction in terms: Melbourne socialites. The marquee's Bollywood theme, complete with twanging sitar and whirling, sari-clad dancers, might have caused some people to think Emirates has been taken over by Air India."


http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/horse-racing/it-was-all-a-bit-like-flying-high-on-moe--or-was-it-mow-it/2009/11/04/1257247622196.html

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PostSubject: Re: Social classes at Melbourne Cup run a gamut..   Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:38 am

Yes Olivia would be an 'A' lister. flower
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