Pavona, who has worked the spring and fall meets for 15 years, said Keeneland typically sells six to 12 ties each day during the meet. No, he's not kidding. Extremely immodest outfits are politely dealt with at the door. A backless dress doesn't get in. Bergen will ask whether the woman has a jacket she can slip on.
Some outfits are less clear-cut.
I think it was a long vest,'' she said. Later, club member Arnold Kirkpatrick wrote an article for Backstretch magazine, partly tongue in cheek, partly taking Keeneland to task for being stodgy. He quoted Wall Street's hemline theory that ties fashion to the stock market. The higher the hemlines, the higher the stock market goes. Keeneland has relaxed its hemline rules in the last couple of years.