ABSTRACT
In the minutes of the Royal Musselburgh Golf Club there is recorded in 1810 a resolution by the gentlemen members to present a prize of a creel and skull to the Fish Lady who should do the best score on the day of the next annual occasion. And so in rising dudgeon they started to form their own clubs; the first in 1867, boldly and fittingly at St Andrews. In the early days of ladies’ tennis and golf the clothes were much the same: sailor hat, shirt blouse, tight waistband, sweeping skirt, Mrs Lambert Chambers or Lady Margaret Scott, it was the same turn-out. Thick-knit sweaters and long cardigans have, in the last year or so, to a large extent taken the place of the less fondly caressing windcheaters; but the golfer who is a foul-weather fiend has a double-texture Grenfell-cloth jacket in the new long hip-hugging style.
