About the Sophisticates Society

The Society has been created by the Darling Sisters as an opportunity for those who appreciate all that is beautiful, sophisticated, elegant and individual to meet, enjoy good company, exchange news and ideas and - perhaps - to encourage a more gracious, polite and sophisticated world.

Members of the Society enjoy fine alcohol, sophisticated clothes and killer conversation. Whatever we do, we do it with style.

If you know how to dress for an occasion, if you know why one should never ask for a gin martini to be shaken, if you believe that sportswear only exists for sports and NEVER for daywear, if you can charm a bartender, entertain an audience and know the difference between cognac and armagnac, if the only thing that hangs out of your shirt is your pocket-handkerchief and you don't see why you shouldn't dress up to attend a cinema screening - then perhaps the Society is for you! Although we are based in Canberra we are happy to consider long-distance memberships.

A Sophisticated afternoon tea party