Re: Hunt Coat Question

"Ruth Baltopoulos" wrote in message

> Ahh, so then one must conclude that those clubs that do not
> allow women to wear pinks are chauvinists <eg>

I dunno.  East TN is not exactly a bastion of liberal thinking!<g>

  Seriously,
> was it a tradition way back when that allowed only men to
> wear pinks?  Is the wearing of pinks by women a fairly new
> phenomenon?

Since we are FNKs I really can't answer this.  The one reference I have
describes the coat (and is VERY specific that it is a "red coat"; "pinks"
exist only "in the tabloid press").  It does not make a gender distinction.

So, it appears that tradition can be of local manufacture!<g>

Bill Kambic

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