I don’t know if it was ever popular, but my first trainer had a braided show bridle. It had plaited reins with it and I coveted that bridle. I finally found something similar and once I can justify another bridle, I’ll be ordering it.
http://www.tackzone.com/catalog/braided-snaffle-bridle-p-112.html
[QUOTE=Fred;8234768]
this is the company I would order a pair from, Turning Point Leather.
sigh.
https://www.facebook.com/144581495580585/photos/p.888774967827897/888774967827897/?type=1&theater[/QUOTE]
The chaps on their page are GORGEOUS.
[QUOTE=Darkwave;8234908]
The chaps on their page are GORGEOUS.[/QUOTE]
Aren’t they though. I heart them.
[QUOTE=Fred;8234967]
Aren’t they though. I heart them.[/QUOTE]
Wow, those are gorgeous. I bet they cost a bit more than the ones I got from Dover’s clearance rack…mine are taupe, though! Close enough!
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I love plaited reins! I would still use them if I could find a pair made out of decent leather and not made in a ridiculously long ‘western hunter pleasure’ length.[/QUOTE]
They stretch b/c of the thin cut on the leather for the braiding. I still have my Kieffer plaiteds, and the original wide nose banded Kieffer headstall, now back in style.
DD proudly goes forth in much of my high end still good conditioned tack from the 70’s. It didn’t get old, it got better. 
I have a green plaid Harry Hall hunt coat with the velvet collar that I keep only to show people that it ‘used’ to fit me! :lol:
Gorgeous brown leather braided leather nosebands and browbands on bridles with matching breastplates and martingales.
Flat tack!
Stock pins(I have a great collection) and/or monogrammed choker collars (what on earth happened there?) yuck to wrap collars.
Hunt seat saddles with navajo pads
Medium stiff body brushes. Nowadays, they are either way too soft or stiff enough to scrub the barnacles off of a shipwreck.
Appreciation of saddles that don’t need re-stuffing or to be seen by a fitter every year and don’t cost the moon.
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I like plaited reins but only when they’re thin and soft/ropy. Then they are super grippy and easy to hold. At some point over time they started making them wider and now I can’t find ones at all that are like what I remember. I remember them being quite thin-- no wider than the width of standard laced reins and maybe even the tiniest titch narrower?![/QUOTE]
I have 2 pair of the Smith Worthington ones. They are pretty stinking thin. Not the world’s most pliable, but with a couple of HSLC treatments, they turned out incredible for the price. Not more the 5/8", probably closer to 1/2" width.
[QUOTE=mvp;8234293]Yabbut how do you clean 'em?
Plaited reins say “tooth brush and work” to me.[/QUOTE]
I use a regular terry cloth wash cloth. I don’t wipe them off after each ride. Do I eventually need to break out the toothbrush, sure. But maybe only once or twice a year.
Finally threw out my full chaps this week.
I bought them when I was in college.
I HAD HAD HAD to have them, after I had a summer job where I made enough money to buy them…
I have carted them all over the world since then, and worn them not once in 17 years. Phoenix is too hot for full chaps, and they are not nice enough for anyone to want them (no fringe…).
Adios, time to get real about some of this stuff!
On the other hand, I am not turning loose of my dress Dehners, which I bought 40 years ago…
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Look at this! http://www.ebay.com/itm/World-Cup-Beval-Saddle-17-English-Saddle-Made-In-England-Includes-Red-Zip-Bag-/301684613472?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item463dcde160
Can you believe this was right on top in the Saddle CryoFreeze? I can’t. And this isn’t the first time this has happened: Someone wanted an obscure saddle and Blamo… It showed up![/QUOTE]
That seller is crazy thinking she can get that price for it, CryoFreeze or not. Not even I would pay that for it. I loved the World Cup so much that I actually had two of them. I bought my first one for $650 and second one for about $700. I sold them both for $800 at least 10 years ago. I had a great run of luck with used saddles; every one I bought I sold for more than I’d paid, because I got them into better condition.
My horse has a banana back and does not want a World Cup as much as I want a World Cup. I thought that the World Cup Gold, which replaced the original one for a few years in Beval’s line up, might suit him better, but the balance of the saddle was totally different and I gather they have discontinued that one now too.
People, if you yearn for the pancake days and have a horse of a Thoroughbred-type build, go buy one of these saddles. Better balance than the PDN and honestly I preferred it to my Steinkraus also.
Sidenote: my mother had full chaps before they were cool, when she was a teenager. My mother still fits in her full chaps from her teenage years.
Ah yes, the CB jacket! I wanted one so bad but couldn’t afford one. Lets see back then I wanted chaps from Journeyman’s and still do. 
Can someone describe or post pics of a CB jacket? These don’t ring a bell at all!
If you watch the ski scene in Hot Tub Time Machine, you will see lots of CB jackets…Lol I still have one…
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Can someone describe or post pics of a CB jacket? These don’t ring a bell at all![/QUOTE]
I posted one a few pages ago - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4546084893879&l=5f8805d019
Here’s another, with a bit better view - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207334397261873&l=36644a7f7c
Hallmark was puffy ski jacket, with no quilting. And a horizontal stride in a contrasting color, plus the “CB” logo (very important).
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Hallmark was puffy ski jacket, with no quilting. And a horizontal stride in a contrasting color, plus the “CB” logo (very important).[/QUOTE]
Oh, yes, that was the jacket of the Beautiful People when I was a sprout. True to form, I never had one. And you did wear it everywhere…. especially places not related to skiing. IIRC, it was Very Important to advertise one’s skiing-ness in non-ski areas of life.
[QUOTE=mroades;8238369]
If you watch the ski scene in Hot Tub Time Machine, you will see lots of CB jackets…Lol I still have one…[/QUOTE]
See? CB jackets = the Skiing Lifestyle, though you could ski in them, too.
I don’t remember CB jackets? Was that before my time? Give me a rough time period…
the 80’s!!
I was one of the models for the original CB sports ladies large jacket. And I still have it. 1967
Hmm… I was probably too young to really be clued into puffy jackets
A lot of these things seem to suddenly be popping up on eBay since this thread was started
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