Are you in Waialua, HI? I have a house across the street and can give you some pointers next time I am out. I used to ride some over fences aside. Not too much now, but I may be able to help a bit.
Here is a friend of mine on my half Arabian gelding many years ago.
I am in Waialua, well I’m not but my boy is. I keep him at Dillingham. I would love to meet up and at least chat. Let me know, either through PM or email. (kahna04@aol.com)
I love the linen habit, btw Brigit. It’s elegant. I was thinking of doing something just as light weight but in a slightly darker. I would last about 3 seconds in that color before I had green slime down my back. I have a hard enough time keeping beige clean. I was thinking a medium grey or blue gray. Going to see what I can find at the fabric store.
Thanks! The linen is super comfy and cool. I love how you can feel the breeze right through the material. Yes, the super light color maaaybe wasn’t the best choice LOL. I’m amazed at how clean it’s stayed for the most part. The only part that’s really dirty is the knee area where my hands are and the part of the apron that tucks underneath your right leg, it’s brown from horse dirt & from the saddle. From what I’m told, Linen washes really well and is a super hardy fabic.
Allanglos, I love the pics of your friend riding your horse! Just gorgeous!
All this talk about jumping sidesaddle makes me want to go out and give it another try!
I had a picture in my stuff somewhere of a lady in India when the British were ruling. She was in Khaki colored habit tailored just like a regular sidesaddle habit. I think it might be in my floppys. If it is I can’t access it until I can get a floppy drive put in my computer.
Someone else might have it.
They wore straw hats or boaters and sometimes pith helmets.
But the darker tan or Khaki is also quite correct.
Yes white is just asking for some horse to slime you with green slobber.
But it is very chique looking. For a few minutes anyway.
If I can find that photo I will send it.
Kind regards, sadlmakr
Sure that would be great, I’d love to see it!
I thought that photo was from there. I was going to be in HI in September, but work has just gotten too busy. Soon, though, I hope. You are welcome to contact me anytime at allanglos@yahoo.com
BTW, one of my homebred horses is at your barn. His name is “Astro”, an Anglo Arabian. I sold him in 2002.
Below are two more photos. One is from a fox hunt. The other a horse show. This is an Anglo Arabian mare at my farm in Florida.
Nothing to do with riding, but since people are talking about making sidesaddle habits, a sewing tip:
Pre-wash EVERYTHING you can that you’re using in the garment (apron, jacket) in the way you’d like to be able to launder the finished item, BEFORE cutting into it at all. With some fabrics that fray easily, you might have to just run the cut ends through the sewing machine or otherwise ‘finish’ the cut ends so they don’t fray on you. Likewise some interfacing isn’t really washable on it’s own, so - you have to play it by ear a little, but the lining fabric and the ‘fashion’/outer fabric should certainly be able to be cleaned no problems before doing anything else.
(This includes, btw, if you’re planning on dry cleaning. Just take the lengths of fabric to the dry cleaners. If they can do curtains and things of that nature, you should be okay with having the fabric washed.)
The idea is that by pre-washing/cleaning, you give the fabrics a chance to shrink, stretch, do whatever they’re going to do when being washed and dried BEFORE you cut them to shape and start sewing things together, so that when you wash/clean the finished item, you don’t end up with it bunching or puckering weirdly because it turns out that the lining fabric you used shrank a lot more than everything else.
(It is kind of a PITA to manage huge long pieces of uncut fabric, but particularly for something like a garment to be worn riding fairly frequently, it’s definitely worth knowing that you CAN clean the thing and have it come out looking the way it should.)
The photo of Toby Ann on Nugget was taken at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in California.
I wondered where Nugget was now. Toby Ann was a dear friend of mine.
I miss her very much.
I have some others taken at that same show.
She was taken from us way too soon.
She made her habits and did an exceptional job on them. She was always impecabely dressed in her habits.
Thanks for posting her photo.
regards, sadlmakr
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