A pictoral timeline of hunter dress codes from the last (gulp!) 50 years. UPDATE: New Pics -- p8

[Lord_Helpus]

Merry, You gotta watch where you put those “—”'s

I thought you were committing perjury by saying:

“I feel deprived. I never had any tack noseband…”

When we ALL KNOW that your torture tack trunk is RIFE, I say RIFE! with tack nosebands, rowel spurs, whips with stickers on the end and cut glass shin boots.

(Please, innocent and gullible folks, in case you cannot tell, I am joshin’ Merry. … Yeah… right… )

To those other posters who have said such nice thangs… Gee, golly shucks. Youse gonna git my haid all swolled up.

I have 40+ pictures that I really like… And that is an edited list. So I think that, on a rainy day, I may make a Webshots album and call it good. In the meantime, I will cede the floor to Merry, Chanda, and all the others who have years of showing and drawers full of pictures sitting there, ready to make you all say WOW.

I will post two more that are special to me WHEN I can make my stand alone computer figure out how to log in to COTH from that computer. Can anyone help me? Erin is out of suggestions – My problem is that I am logged out, and when I try to log in, I cannot get to the log in page. I am recycled back to the page I am already on. I have tried to re-register, but it tells me that I am already registered.

I have made sure that cookies are allowed and I don’t know what else to do. If I cannot log in, I cannot post on that computer and that is where the rest of my pictures are.

I will also repost the Madison Square Garden picture because it tickles me to think that I might be someone else’s wallpaper. I am not even my own wallpaper, so have at it.

Please feel free to PT me if you have any suggestions. I need a techno-nerd. Anyone out there qualify?

"Oh yeah, I'll bet you're fat and can't ride!" ---  Erin, Chief Cathearder.  [img]http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

[heelsdown]

LH - Two things. Try clearing your cache. WIth IE go to your tool bar on top and click on tools. Then go to internet options. From this you’ll see general, click there. Then temp files, delete them. Don’t delete the cookies, just the temps in this file.

ALSO I’d suggest going into your user profile in COTH DO THIS FIRST. There is a place to check or un check “remember this user profile” uncheck it. This should make it easier to log on from another computer.

My 2 cents for what its worth, bring on the Garden pics!

[turnthepage]

I absolutely love your mothers outfit in the picture “mom leading”!! Especially the jacket… though I am a youngun and not too partial to the tie look… I love that jacket, Thanks so much for sharing!
(edited for stupid spelling mistakes and plurals where they weren’t supposed to be!)
My horse is my makeshift boyfriend… am I crazy?

[Coreene]

Ahem … and where are the initials on the cervical collar?

I am in loff with those grays and the pony. I was already in loff with Valor.

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Don’t nott to buy no ugly ass things for us to wear und then say it be a present for us, it don’t nott to be, it be for you. - WILLEM

[Lord_Helpus]

Thank you all for the very nice words. It felt a little weird posting the old family pictures, (not weird at all posting pictures of moi, just a great big old kick in the ego.) so I appreciate how much you all enjoyed seeing my grandmother and mother and the rest of my family from way back when. If you like the stills, you oughta see the family horse movies that we had put on video tape.

They used to be on those tiny old rolls of film that ended with the cirles on the wall and the film that broke all the time and my father (the minister) would swear a lot.

wtywmn, I don’t know what years you were at Hilltop, but I bet you remember the varnished wooden stall signs with brown painted block letters for the horse’s name with the sire/dam and DOB underneath, and across the bottom the owner’s name. At one point, they were on just about every stall in both the big barn and the pony palace.

Those were what my mother made to make money for the horse show account. Someone told me that they had been at Hilltop in the 80’s and there were still a couple of those signs left hanging.

"Oh yeah, I'll bet you're fat and can't ride!" ---  Erin, Chief Cathearder.  [img]http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

[Lord_Helpus]

One of my faves. Wish it had been in color. This was the last horse show at the Forum in Los Angeles in 1981. I know that for a fact, since even as I type, I am sitting on the cooler Valor won there – I use it on my couch to keep the doggies from getting the couch dirty…

"Oh yeah, I'll bet you're fat and can't ride!" ---  Erin, Chief Cathearder.  [img]http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

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[Riggs]

Regal Beagle (Tonka here from EMG), I remember pleated MADRAS chokers! Was that the same era?

[Baileybff]

What an absolutely wonderful pic LH!!! I loooove it. Unfortunatly, I won’t be able to contribute util the 80’s roll around . How cool is that pic…and you are just TOO CUTE (as is your pony)! Am I seeing things or is does he have caulks in his shoes?? Did they have those back then blushes?
Nat

“Show with C.L.A.S.S.”
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~~Proud new mommy of Nikolas aka “Niko”~~
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[Lord_Helpus]

RF, and all others who are now officially nauseous (if not already actually vomiting) – I promise that I am finished, done, finito posting pictures. Unless, of course, there is a really good picture of George from the KHP shows this month.

Please, others – go to it. Nicole! I just looked back and saw your post. Welcome to COTH. PT or email me. I want to catch up. How’s your mom?

"Oh yeah, I'll bet you're fat and can't ride!" ---  Erin, Chief Cathearder.  [img]http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

[Lord_Helpus]

Moving into the early 1980’s, or “the Valor years” – I have already posted several of his truly good pictures, so I chose a picture this time which exemplifies WHY I love rust breeches.
This is from Washington International in 1982 or 1983. I had gotten a tad pudgy (yes, I do still have a neck although you cannot see it…) and even though I am popping out of my riding jacket, I think that the rust breeches do quite a good job of making my bulk look, er,… less bulky…

Everything else is pretty similar to today, except for all the fancy stitching which was big in the 80’s, as was mentioned in the other thread. If the picture was bigger, one could see that my initials are stitched into the center of the noseband…

"Oh yeah, I'll bet you're fat and can't ride!" ---  Erin, Chief Cathearder.  [img]http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

![Valor_WISH_1982.jpg|386x500](upload://436g8WSjz9XOji5hA1f6sCCbU5t.jpeg)

[Ata]

Ok, I feel stupid about this, but what is a GPA?

[OneonOne]

Great photos, LH! I am quite impressed with your skills as a 6 year old!

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Any coupon works! Beware of paper cuts!

[lauriep]

Let me chime in on formal attire vs appointments vs corinthian. Formal attire meant only the rider had to be thus dressed. Appointments classes meant that the rider and horse both had to adhere to a lengthy list of specific details in tack and attire: sewn in, flat bridle, sandwich case, flat, folded, non-elastic girth, no saddle pad, no pads in stirrups, carry a whip, string gloves under flap of saddle, and on and on. Corinthian classes were the same with the added caveat that the rider must be a member of a recognized hunt. Those classes were a pain for the riders, but I LOVED getting ready for them. It really allowed the anal types like me to let their attention to detail shine!

Pam, was that picture of Val at the Garden the year I had him, or after you went to Champ and Linda?

Laurie

[HARROLDhasmyheart]

These are hilarious! I LOVE the helmet covers, perf!

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[silver]

LHU-
if you have pop up windows disabled or blocked on your computer it might eb why you cannot log in or post to COTH.

[LaurieB]

Great pictures, LH! I especially like the one from WPB in '77, beautiful horse.

madeline, I remember jumping fences like that one in hunters (in the 60’s) and I truly hope I never have to do so again.

[CellosPride]

I daresay, LordHelpus, in one of your pics you looked … disabled. (A legitimate topic for the BB seeing as there was a neckbrace over a riding shirt in the pic). I think we rode in the same A/O division in 1977 at WPB, but it was not one of my horse, “Piece O’ Cake’s,” better shows as she was reacting to all the fire ants by her stall and the sulpher water.

[Lord_Helpus]

<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by diKecnadnuS:
Are you telling me they used to monogram bridles!!! I want one!!! Were they done with the riders initials? Or the horses??? Does anyone have up close pictures of such “fancy stitching”???<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Oh you babes in the woods who only thought you knew of all the places one could put a monogram…

I think they fell out of favor when thin nosebands became the absolute in thing. A monogrammed noseband had to be thicker because of the room needed for stitching in the letters.

Back then, I was Pam Hall, so these were my initials. I did not make them up willy nilly.

Snickers (which is how I think of you… since I have no idea what your name means in reverse) here is your picture. Poor old bridle was in need of a saddle soaping, so it said “Thank you for asking”.

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[This message was edited by Lord Helpus on May. 04, 2004 at 12:25 PM.]

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[Riggs]

I have so enjoyed this thread! Thank you everyone!
LHU - you never took to the brown boots, rust breeches, blue jacket chic-ness of the late 70s, early 80s?
I too remember the elastic strap, the button up breeches (buttons at the legs too), and the coops that were part of every class (I see one in the background of one of the photos).

And I believe that wasnt a polkadot jump, it was simply made to look like aspen or birch: all the jumps ‘in those days’ were made to look natural to what you would find in the hunt field.

Kirsten, was that photo by any chance taken at Milner Downs in British Columbia?

[KLS]

LordHelpus,
can i ask a teeny favor? i know you’ve posted lots of Valor pics before, but i can’t seem to find my absolute fave on here anymore. if you wouldn’t mind re-posting the b&w of Madison Square Garden, that’d be awesome… such a classic image; hope ya don’t mind if i use it for my desktop!

Thanks in advance