article_snippet: It's one of the most prestigious events on the racing calendar
article_snippet: so It's no surprise that visitors to Cheltenham Festival are as well-heeled as it gets.
article_snippet: Prestigious: Cheltenham is one of the most prestigious events on the racing calendar and attracts royalty .
article_snippet: Glamorous: Cheltenham is famous for Cheltenham glamorously dressed racegoers - none with fake tan .
article_snippet: Chic: Unlike at other races were glamour reigns supreme, ladies at Cheltenham dress for the weather .
article_snippet: While Aintree is famous for Aintree scantily clad racegoers and Royal Ascot for Aintree hats, the Cheltenham Festival has become synonymous with an altogether more rural approach to dressing.
article_snippet: Unlike Royal Ascot, organisers at Cheltenham refuse to impose a dress code on guests and, beyond exhortations to wrap up warm and avoid anything that might offend, say anything goes - up to and including fancy dress.
article_snippet: Although the clothes donned by Gloucestershire's most fashionable might be rural, the looks on show certainly don't lack glamour with oversized sunglasses, pearl necklaces and twinkling diamond stud earrings deployed to up the fashion ante.
article_snippet: But whether girls in pearls and princess coats or preppy chaps in Prince of Wales check, the Cheltenham Festival is just as stylish as the Cheltenham Festival Berkshire counterpart.
article_snippet: But not everyone pulls it off... the Cheltenham Festival might have a fairly relaxed dress code  but most, with the March weather in mind, arrive sporting a take on practical glamour.
highlights_snippet: Cheltenham Festival has long attracted a well-heeled set of racegoers .
  