“Cheap is small and not too steep, but most of all, cheap is cheap. Circumstance has forced my hand to be a cut price person in a low budget land”
Good breeches on sale - snap them up! (Kryswyn, when is the next insider sale out your way?)
Merry I have decided to venture out in the next local show in my bargain TS rust’s.
If you were to email me with your snail mail address I would send you a premium list for the few remaining shows over here in Yuma. Might be a good greenie experience. As much as I b*tch and moan about it here, the shows are well done, safe and very novice horse/rider oriented. Just not much competition.
I’m loving the idea of rust coming back…Gulfport, So Cal and even Yuma…
Gotta love those gray breeches! I remember my very first show…Gray breeches, white shirt, rubber boots, show bow…But I was in 4th grade, so everyone thought I was cute (I just can’t cut it with that excuse anymore though!) 
isn’t that the ring at Griffith Park? (Possibly Coto de Casa?) Never showed at Pomona and it is not the Earl Warren Showgrounds at Santa Barbara.
Is your monogram initials or a design?
By the way, loved your pics. Sweet horse you have there.
Next thing you know, I’ll be adding a velvet collar to my huntcoat.
It’s a very “smoke and mirror” industry which could likely be the sole catalyst for today’s horrible body dysmorphia and eating disorder plague among girls and boys. They’re always staying a few steps ahead by “telling” you what is and isn’t fashion.
But it’s really a matter of personal style and taste. If you are confident and happy in your rust breeches, I’m sure it will wear well.
I simply shudder at the thought of victims of trend. I mean, how many of you are really wearing shredded clothes like Britney Spears? Or, better, how many of you should not be wearing shredded clothes like Britney Spears?! 
RJ
Can somebody please tell me why rust breeches don’t go with a grey horse? I would think if they were going to clash with any color, it would be chestnut.
That said, I’ve never owned a pair of rust breeches. When I showed in eons past it was canary time. Now there’s a color I wouldn’t mind seeing come around again–though they showed every single small speck of dirt.
The green-beige color doesn’t bother me. It’s a neutral. It’s background noise. Like black boots, it’s the “frame” that you add your “picture” to. And even I can manage to keep them looking somewhat clean.
So that rust TS’s will be “in” for a long time~ he he! Count me in on briging them back~ I am going to venture out in mine at the next show~ paired with a navy coat & a blue checked Beacon Hill shirt~ I think it will look smashing, dahling! Now…as for the chestnut dilemma: I have a blood bay gelding, which of course the breeches will look fantastic with, butttt…I also have a chestnut mare (kind of a medium color, not washed out orangey, but not quite liver either). She has a star & just a small amount of white on hind legs~ think the rust will work? Help me out, fashion gurus! 
SUZ
Yep…Robby Said it all… uh-how PLAIN is a all brownish outfit anyways, I think they will be a lot harder to match things with-call me ‘closed minded’ (does that exist?!?) but, brow boots…ugh…not for me =) I like the look of our shiny purple shirts and grey hunt coats, and black on ‘puke grren’ (which I like by the way) breeches!
Dreading the day that hot pink is in for breeches,
Whitney
Ponynet.Net-Where The Ponies Are!
Yup, I was on my way to the dentist and I actually got this psychic urging to stop at the local tack shop. It was like a voice in my head, telling me to stop and shop! And there they were, calling me! Brand new TS rust breeches, in my size, for a modest sale price! I couldn’t resist.
I know my trainer hates rust breeches. But then, she won’t wear a brown coat because, “I’m a ‘spring’ and I can’t wear browns.”
Just wait. I’ll wear the rust at some schooling shows, then, when I’m at a 3-day show, and already doing well, I’ll just arrive from my motel wearing my rust breeches for the day’s classes. Can I have a dollar for everyone who makes a comment or stares impolitely?
Not just a Libra Duffy but a pure and true Turkey baby I was born on Thanksgiving, which can explain my love for shoving my face full of food until they have to roll me away from the table!
I like the look of rust breeches with traditional black melton and a white shirt & stock tie.
I am DYING for a pair of Canary breeches to wear with my shadbelly. I had a friend who had a pair awhile back and she looked so great. I’m not one to try to blend in (esp. with my navy hunt cap.) Am I going to look like a fool or stnad out in a “retro-classic” sorta way?
well in the case of my gray - he has brown flecks which come out if I wear brown or rust. I stick with grays and blues mostly. I don’t even like to wear my puke-green breeches with him.
I LOVE rust and am tempted to throw caution to the winds and just make that my trademark. In the '70’s Susan Sawyer, who rode a wondreful horse named City Lights with George Morris ALWAYS wore rust – even in the medal finals at NY. It was her trademark.
And, while I did not always wear rust, I was known to look quite snappy in green with rust (top) and beige with rust(bottom)
That must have been my voice you heard, Merry!
Riley is a special man! Unfortunately, I don’t own him, but have leased him a few times over the years. We go back a ways.
I have always done my initials in a simple monogram, except for once, when I got “wild” for me and went a bit bolder, but still my initials. LOL
For those of you living in the SE US- Texas , too , I believe,you should have no problem accepting the fact that Hell has indeed frozen over.
AP Weather Wire—Hell has frozen over.Dr. Know , of the World Weather Center believes it has something to do with the unusually cold weather pattern during December. The cold air during that month apparently continued on its southerly track . It met up with a low pressure system in the south Atlantic ocen, where it became a raging blizzard , with no countering winds to blow the system apart. So Hell froze over , and has 3 feet of snow left to shovel.
Aslo, the furnaces had been turned off due to the ever increasing prices of fuel & natural gas. It appears that Satan thought that there was enough hot air , what with all the lawyers , polititains & evil horse traders down there, to keep the fires going. Apparently, even they were not enough to counter the unexpected deep freeze.
My trainer hates rust breeches, as I mentioned. I shall wear them just to irk her.
RobbyJ, if you only knew what a total traditionalist I am in hunt clothes…LOL! The people who know me will see me in my rust breeches and probably get a chuckle out of it. But I did grow up wearing rust, so to me they’re not such a big deal. As for your concerns, my current mount is indeed a blood bay, I’m built about like the photo of Justbay, except maybe even taller, so my legs will probably look like a pair of cinnamon sticks .
And Chanda, as a matter of fact, I have recently spoken to 3 AHSA-carded judges about rust breeches— or gray or taupe— and what did they say? Each one LAUGHED that we would think they actually CARE! One’s comment: “You know me. I mark down for things like a too-loose harness, dirty boots and hair not up in a hairnet. I’m not looking at what color of breeches someone’s wearing.”
[This message was edited by Merry on Feb. 02, 2001 at 12:34 PM.]
