Im going to my first A show in a few weeks and I’m considering getting parlanti denver dress boots. Ive had issues with laces breaking and i just don’t want to deal with it. Will I be extremely out of place in dress boots?
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Im going to my first A show in a few weeks and I’m considering getting parlanti denver dress boots. Ive had issues with laces breaking and i just don’t want to deal with it. Will I be extremely out of place in dress boots?[/QUOTE]
Dress boots are always proper attire. Mostly you see field boots but I have both.
I went back to dress boots when I bought a pair of zippered dress (I have a big instep so when pull on boots were still common, I switched to fields plus the local hunt prefers “formal” attire).
I love dress boots 
Dress boots are never out of place in the hunter ring, and they are becoming more and more popular in some areas, go ahead and buy them if that is what you prefer.
My barnmate and I show in dress boots. Not a problem at all. Seems like you see more of them now than you did a few years ago.
Dress boots are fine, and as other have mentioned, very technically more correct than black field boots, which were a creation of the hunter ring, not the hunt field.
Field boots let you have a slimmer ankle while still being able to get your foot in the boot, so with the advent of zippers in boots, field boots are superfluous. I wouldn’t be surprised if they eventually went the way of the dodo in the hunter ring, especially since dress boots are easier to clean and polish.
I show in Volant S’s, which look like non traditional dress boots.
So feel free to rock the dress boots!
I have both but have shown exclusively in my dress boots since I got them a year ago. They have become quite popular.
Dress boots. So hot right now.
Take a note from the Ladies Side Saddle classes which are currently the only hunter class where attire is judged - the boots they have to wear are dress boots. Back in the day dress boots were (and still are always correct) and required in formal classes. Informal classes riders wore tweed and field boots - often brown.
At some point over, field boots became the fad/trend to the point where some trainers thought dress boots were inappropriate, and somehow it seemed many believed “dress” meant dressage boot so of course a hunter rider wouldn’t wear dressage boots LOL. I could tell you stories from my tack shopgirl days…
get those dress boots and wear them with glee!
I always showed in dress boots…
yep dress boots are fine. we had the Miami and just the Denver. Quite on trend in the hunter ring right now I would say.
Another for dress boots! My new boots are dress boots and I won’t go back to field boots again. So much easier to clean, I like the sharper look, and pretty much everyone has them now. You won’t stand out in a bad way.
