Any one dressing up (you and or horse for Halloween?). Or favorite costumes from the past?

[Mukluk]

My horse and I are going to be in a trail trial tomorrow and first there is a costume contest. She is a chestnut OTTB so she is going to be a giraffe and I am going to be dressed in traditional safari gear. I’ll have a safari vest, white shirt, tan breeches, brown tall boots, “pith” helmet (over real helmet), binoculars, and a branch with leaves so I can hold it over her head and she can eat the leaves… Just like a giraffe!!! I’m going to make the giraffe markings with white tempura paint, do a running braid (because her mane is long and I don’t want to cut it), I’m going to wrap her tail in an ace bandage and have black yarn hanging from the end. I think she is going to be the cutest Giraffe ever.

This is what we are trying for!
https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&sxsrf=ALeKk02kh0i_ywC-8hSdtfXQEnzO4XHN5Q:1603479002046&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=Rothschild+Giraffe+images&client=safari&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjikMnisMvsAhWIq54KHQAsAQIQjJkEegQIAxAB&biw=1250&bih=739

How about you?

[demidq]

As a child, (many, many years ago) we always organised a gymkhana with friends at the end of summer. By tradition, the last class was the costume class and I’m afraid my family ALWAYS won it.The costumes were not necessarily Politically Correct by today’s standards, but this was 60 years ago. I will spare readers a description of the really cringeworthy ones. We usually did a group thing- a group of gyspsies with a cover over the pony cart hung with bits and pieces including a half cured racoon skin and surrounded by grubby children, a Victorian family in the governess cart, “Don’t Put the Gift Horse of Another Colour Before the Cart Or Look Him In The Mouth”- pony painted with poster paints and a large bow around his tummy, harnessed backwards so he was pushing the pony cart while I tried to look in his mouth with a giant magnifying glass (sister leading pony). Pony was always a good sport.

The last year was a humdinger- we dressed up as Valkyries with binder twine braids under cardboard viking helmets, long tunics under my father’s string undershirts spray painted silver for chain mail, and we carried spears and shields. There were 4 of us, 3 on ponies of different temperaments and the youngest on a hobby horse. We swept into the ring at a brisk canter (hobby horse struggling to keep up) singing Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyrie” VERY loudly. Chaos ensued. The push-me-pull-you went through the fence, the headless horseman’s horse took off bucking, the pinto pony with udder and attending milkmaid bolted, the side-saddle princess came off her unicorn- you get the picture.
We won the class as usual, but there was no costume class the next year.

[RedHorses]

:lol: That’s quite the mental picture demidq!

Younger horse is still sporting faint zebra stripes from his summer clip - does that count? I did consider giraffe spots but went with zebra in the end.

[2DogsFarm]

No pics, but I made my bay TB a Killer Bee.
Deelie-Bobber antennae on his browband & spray furazone stripes on his big, bay, butt.
I was Queen Bee riding him in striped leggings & a crown.

He was very concerned about the Surfer, riding bareback wearing swim fins.
Horse sporting a pair of those huge sunglasses.
But what nearly made him lose his sh*t was the Knight’s horse, outfitted with a shower curtain draped over his butt & dragging.
^ ^
:eek:

Wish someone had told me how many days it would take to brush the yellow out of his coat :o

[Tarlo_Farm]

Somewhere there are 50 year old photos from my days in 4H at our costume classes at the local fair. One year I was Santa and we tied large branches to the bridle of my sainted horse to make him a reindeer. Another year I was a mermaid in a giant pillowcase cut and sewn to look like a tail, covered with tin foil scales stapled on, wearing a bikini top and sporting a loooong flowing “wig” my sister made out of thick yellow yarn. The same sainted horse was draped in a fish net to which we’d fastened various bobbers and I rode bareback, sideways. We thought it was HYSTERICAL and worthy of the “Most Funny”. I won “Most Beautiful” which also put us - my equally sainted mother and my older sister - into gales of laughter. Good times.

One of the best, most dramatic one of those years was a kid with his gorgeous black Quarter Horse mare. John fixed a kind of a cross-shaped apparatus to himself that towered above his head, and his mom sewed a long black cape they fastened to the cross to make him the “Headless Horseman”. It was COOL!!

[Tarlo_Farm]

And Demidq, those stories are fantastic! Geezus, the handmade costumes…and the chaos that often ensued at 4H shows…:lol:

[2DogsFarm]

Remembering a fave from Fair:
Kids with various bandages, (fake)casts on arms & legs, makeup bruises/black eyes…
Leading a pony wearing the sandwich sign:
Pony 4 Sale
Safe for Kids
:lol: