The best hats for Ascot: Stand out from the racing crowd with designs by London's hottest young milliners
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Your support makes all the difference.Style has no age... and Ascot no limits, as these designs by Piers Atkinson, House of Flora, Noel Stewart and Aurora Ozma show.
Models: Ruth Black, Rose Bryant, Lynne Harris, Sarah Hogben, Kathy MacEwen and Jenny Richards
Photographs: Ruth Hogben
Hair: David Wadlow at Premier
Make-up: Laura Dominique at Streeters, using MAC
Photographic assistance: Laura Falconer and Chloe Orefice
Styling assistance: Brad Palmer
Hair assistance: Ross McLaughlan
Make-up assistance: Riona Sullivan and Maria Vittoria
Production: Drue Bisley
Retouching: Emma Tunstill at Touch Digital
Management studio and lighting: Rida Studios
Runner: Jake Bisley
*Odds correct at time of going to press
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