Best dressed lady at Chester Races shares genius high heel tip

The famous Chester Races' May Festival Ladies Day returned with thousands of colourful outfits this week - and as fashionistas will know getting your heels stuck in the grass can be par for the course at such events. But the winner of the Races' Best Dressed Lady competition has shared a "genius" tip for protecting your heels while enjoying the revels of the Races.

Revellers turned out in their thousands in a host of colourful ensembles for this year's May Festival at the world's oldest operating racecourse in Cheshire. And Ladies Day was blessed with blue skies and sunshine which saw stylish guests out in their most colourful fashions.

That included the winner of the Boodles Best Dressed Lady competition at the races extravaganza - Jackie Chambers who dazzled in an outfit as bright as the May sunshine. Jackie won the top prize at the event wearing a bright yellow bodycon dress teamed with matching heels and a huge floral fascinator.

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And, after claiming her prize, regular racegoer Jackie shared a genius fashion tip for others who like to wear sky-high heels to the event. For Jackie, 56, said she has come up with a cunning way to protect her favourite stilettos from the grassy areas that you have to totter over at the Races.

Sharing her fashion tip she said: "I love to wear heels but I keep them looking good by wrapping sellotape all around the heel.

"It stops them from getting dirty and also helps to stop them from sinking as badly into the grass."

Jackie, from Essex, collected the top prize on Ladies Day of a Boodles diamond pendant and £700 fashion vouchers from designer Matthew O'Brien. Jackie, wearing a Sophie Hunter dress and Steve