Well having had an adult do an entire local schooling show series in jodphurss and paddock boots, I can assure you it wasn’t a good look. Unless you can find some vintage hunt clothes like a nice tweed (not in this heat) and those old poofy jodphurs a la Jackie Bouvier Kennedy - I’d get some 1/2 chaps that match your paddock boots.
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“Baby Jane” showing? LOL
Absolutely no way. I think my trainer would pass out if any of us did this even as a joke, as it is disrespectful to the judge. Electrical tape the boots on, I’ve done that a lot.
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Yes, just last spring, Ye Olde Electrical Tape was employed on someone’s boots (not mine!) right before a class.
Just as an aside, I think black vetrap works better in a pinch since it doesn’t leave gummy adhesive on the boots.
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How is this disrespectful? It is definitely not the norm. General rule of thumb in the states is large ponies and up, 16 years and up to be out of jods.
It would be odd to show in most definitely, but I don’t agree with disrespectful. I wouldn’t do it, I don’t necessarily recommend it, but I’ve seen far more disrespect from dirty boots, tack etc.
If it isn’t against the rules, it would be unconventional most definitely but not disrespectful IMO.
Now- I can’t imagine it would be comfortable to me.
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Anything conceived / done as a joke in the show ring is disrespectful to the judge, that’s what I meant. Otherwise this is just very strange!
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Do jods really feel notably different than breeches? I’m scratching my head that there’s such a measurable difference that an adult would affirmatively go out and acquire jods to ride in??
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I ride in both, and tights, and personally I don’t notice any difference - but my long boots fit me comfortably and won’t cause a Deep Vein Thrombosis.
I know saddleseat riders wear jods. Re: adults in the hunter-jumper world, though, the only time I saw an adult wear them regularly (no offense to the OP) was a very, very odd woman I used to ride in a group lesson with who seemed to operate in her own universe.
It just occurred to me, I never owned pair of jods. I started riding as a kid when I was 9. Despite the fact that today I’d hardly have been considered overweight, the sizes were so tiny back in the 80s, I never fit into them. (I am 5’1 as an adult).
Back in the day… 
There was a time when tall boots were not available off the shelf in the wide array of sizes that they are today. Nor was there such a thing as half-chaps. So, for the teen or adult who did not have the budget for custom-made tall boots, especially for those who were just starting out, jods were the only option.
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My first riding pants, when I took a lesson series at five years old, were jodhpurs with jodhpur boots that my mother got from someone as hand-me-downs. It was five years of stuffed toy horses and one toy stick horse until I started again, at a run-down barn.
No one I knew rode in boots or riding pants of any kind. Two or three years later, when I had my own horse and was in 4-H, I ordered a pair of black rubber tall riding boots from the back of one of my father’s New Yorker magazines. They looked great until the shine cracked and fell off, but I wore them everywhere because I Had Riding Boots!
That sufficed until I started showing, which coincided with my father’s brief but spectacular rise in income, when my very proud parents outfitted me in tall boots (which I wore regularly for thirty-some years; the only pair I ever had), wool wide-thigh breeches, and a Stubben Siegfried.
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I wore breeches and the rubber boots! I may have had some paddock boots which I wore with the breeches or jeans.
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I had my first proper riding lessons at a hunt club. My first riding pants were a pair of Kentucky jods (saddle seat) given to me by the MFH’s wife, who ran a little hand-me-down shop out of her back bedroom, which I wore with last year’s school shoes. At my very first horse show, I wore those along with a red sport coat that belonged to the boy across the street.
LOL, my parents were sooo not horsey and sooo not wealthy. In later years, I came to understand that I was a bit of a charity case, because, I think, I did have some talent, I so loved horses and riding, and I was a sweet, quiet, little mouse of a child. 
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For me they are notably different! I get my heels down and keep them down better. I have more direct feel and contact with my horses side than I do in tall boots. My connection is better. I had never ridden in them as a kid. Had those god awful rubber tall boots and then leather pull on tall boots and then eventually zipper boots. Never knew what they felt like until the last year when I bought a pair as a joke (tuff rider makes them for adults in black and tan). I far prefer the feel over tall boots now.
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I understand why NO tall boots feels different than tall boots.
I don’t understand why jods feel different than breeches or tights.
Couldn’t you just school in BREECHES with no tall boots? Why would that be any different than schooling in JODS with no tall boots?
I think what you’re really saying is you like paddock boots better than field boots, and I can understand that (though it’s not my preference) but I don’t see how jods feel markedly different than breeches?!
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When I got my first pair of KY jods when I was in my 20s, they were a woman’s size 12 or 14. My delightful mother saw them and immediately said “I’ve never seen jods that big!” Thanks, I really needed that.
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The jods I wear are just a cotton jod. They have good traction on their own. Breeches are meant to be worn under something.
I don’t know why it bothers you so much.
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My mother didn’t understand a comment a pro made about me as a teenager that I “have a good seat” and she responded with “it is pretty tremendous”.
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It doesn’t bother me at all. I’m just trying to figure out why the feel is different enough that you’d go seek out something that few adults wear and then feel such a preference for that feel that you want to show in it.
Breeches aren’t meant to be “worn under something” any more than Jods are?! Both can be worn with paddock boots?!
How can connection be better in Jods versus riding tights? They’re literally made of the same material? I’m just trying to understand what it is you’re feeling in Jods that’s different than riding tights or breeches with the same paddock boots you wear with your Jods?!
Or are you just being weird to be weird? In which case, go for it! We’re all entitled to do what we like.
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