Stuff you still want because it was cool back in the day.

[PaintPony]

[QUOTE=GypsyQ;8234833]
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]

I had one of those too - for my first horse!
It wasn’t as nice as that though. I think it was from State Line Tack. Ew.

I grew up riding in a Stuben Rex.
When I got too big for it I donated it to a horse rescue for their pony rides.

I have an ancient pair of plaited reins and someone will have to pry them out of my cold, dead hands. The are just perfect and have been on every bridle I’ve owned. I have no idea how old they are or where they came from but they still look great.

My favorite breeches were rust Harry Halls. I wore them until they fell apart.
Did any one else used to ride in LL Bean muck boots instead of paddock boots sometimes? I was oh so fashionable in the 90’s! All my friends did it too. Maybe it was a local thing?

I still have all my 90’s stuff too - custom full chaps, custom boots with no zippers, and matching monogrammed bags for everything! (saddle, coat, boots, helmet, bridle, etc.) My matching trunk (with the padded monogrammed seat of course!) unfortunately got eaten by some horse that was in a stall next to it. :mad:

Funny story about my boots. When I was teaching a few years back I put my show clothes on for a lead line class. My students had never seen boot hooks or a boot jack and just looked at me like I was a crazy dinosaur! :lol: Remember back when we had to jump around trying to pull those damn things on? And putting your boot between someone’s legs and kicking them in the butt to get them off? :winkgrin:

[2DogsFarm]

[QUOTE=PaintPony;8239368]
When I was teaching a few years back I put my show clothes on for a lead line class. My students had never seen boot hooks or a boot jack and just looked at me like I was a crazy dinosaur! :lol: Remember back when we had to jump around trying to pull those damn things on? And putting your boot between someone’s legs and kicking them in the butt to get them off? :winkgrin:[/QUOTE]

Oh, the memories…
When I got my custom Vogel dress boots in 1989 zippers were an unheard of heresy.
I struggled mightily to get those boots on, then after tromping around in them for a couple hours, Could.Not.Get.Them. OFF!
DH threatened to cut them off [cue Banshee Shriek]
Somehow, with tears, sweat & cramping calves, they came off.
I still have the boots. Comfy as slippers.
BUT: they took 2 trips to NYC w/o me.
1st for elastic gussets at the tops, then for full-length zips.

ZOMG!
Kids had never seen pulls or bootjacks?
Kick 'em in the butt!
For educational purposes, ya know…

[Heineken]

Hampa boots. Navajos.

[JBCool]

PainPony: I’m still using two State Line Tack bridles and get compliments on them all the time! One’s 19 y.o. and one’s 14. A friend just gave me an old pair of custom zipperless boots b/c I was so sick of replacing broken zippers and I LOVE those boots. We figure they’re probably older than either of us.

[phoenixrises]

[QUOTE=2DogsFarm;8239575]
Oh, the memories…
When I got my custom Vogel dress boots in 1989 zippers were an unheard of heresy.
I struggled mightily to get those boots on, then after tromping around in them for a couple hours, Could.Not.Get.Them. OFF!
DH threatened to cut them off [cue Banshee Shriek]
Somehow, with tears, sweat & cramping calves, they came off.
I still have the boots. Comfy as slippers.
BUT: they took 2 trips to NYC w/o me.
1st for elastic gussets at the tops, then for full-length zips.

ZOMG!
Kids had never seen pulls or bootjacks?
Kick 'em in the butt!
For educational purposes, ya know…[/QUOTE]

I just came across a picture from my Sophomore year in college, attempting to get my friend into her custom Vogels after the freshman 15 had hit her hard. There was contortion and I"m pretty sure she couldn’t feel her feet, but we got there. I think it took three of us to get her out but there’s no photographic evidence of that.

[CustomDesign]

One time after a long trail ride I was helping my friend pull off her boots. She was sitting in a chair, I was standing in front of her, she had one foot pushing against my thigh, and I was pulling the boot off her other foot. I’m sure you’ve all done it. That boot just was. not. coming. off. I gave one last herculean tug and… she got yanked out of the chair and broke her finger in two places when she hit the floor!

I say YAY zippers!

[boosma47]

Canary corduroy breeches with button front and legs, and the body that could wear them!
Loved my white linen jacket and madras chokers.
Canary vest.
Rust breeches.
Harris tweed hacking jackets…great for weekend riding at the hunt club.
Sigh.

[Plumcreek]

Appreciate all the old people here. I sold my Stubben Siegfried (A hunt rider snapped that puppy up) to be able to buy the new ‘in’’ close contact Crosby Soverign - still have and like that one, but need a more ‘save your life’ saddle these days. Also have from back in the day: plaited reins, rust breeches, Dehner brown field boots (custom, but not for me), and the summer white linen-ish coat - frock cut behind. (Or was that just a QH thing?) Did covet the purple madras coats the cool kids wore, but never owned one.

[Renn_aissance]

[QUOTE=Madeline;8238524]
I was one of the models for the original CB sports ladies large jacket. And I still have it. 1967[/QUOTE]

How neat! Madeline, I don’t suppose you have any of those pictures?

[vxf111]

I also have fond college memories surrounding helping roommates extricate themselves from non-zipper boots

[Ambitious_Kate]

Cliff barnsby minimalist postage stamp hunt saddle
Navy blue full english suede chaps
6 or 8 plaited reins, probably what I am remembering are 6s
sewn hunt bridle
brown field boots, fully lined
tweed hunt coat

[Ambitious_Kate]

Just so yous all know, I still buy pull on boots, never ever bought zippered field or show boots. Still use boot pulls, have nice wooden ones, and STILL use a boot jack, why, its sitting right there next to the door. So there. HATE the look of zippered boots, and HATE the look of the waisted ankle boots these days. Really think they are awful tacky.

[MHM]

I still own my full chaps with fringe, but they’ve been sitting on the shelf since the first day I rode in half chaps. I got the half chaps, tried them on, put them away for a year or two because they looked and felt too newfangled for me, but then pulled them back out during a spell of incredibly hot weather and actually used them. Have not used my full chaps since.

I had a CB jacket in my youth. It might still be somewhere in the back of my closet.

[axl]

Oh, I got my gorgeous Journeyman’s and my Butet when I got out of the Army. No fringe, ladies, I did Western Pleasure as a teen and wanted the smooth cut I think I’ve gotten fewer than 40 rides between the 2 in 15 years, but they still make me happy May as well tack my puke green TS to that, I think I showed in them once.

I still have the flat hunting bridle I bought for my pony in '89 or '90; very unfashionable but flattered his face. Occasionally I’d get compliments from an older judge!

[Foxtrot_s]

My 38 year old daughter got her fringed chaps made when she was in Grade 12 - they have little holes worn in them now, but she still can wear them.

My Dehners are about 30 years old.

I used to event in a velvet cap - elastic up for the dressage, down for x-c.
Then came Caliente’s.

I, too have braided reins…and rolled bridles are coming back, or at least in Dressage they are.

And while I don’t show now, I wore my Hunt colours with pride through all those years.

Kids were raised with a Stubben Rex and had perfect equitation from the leg being in the right place right from the beginning.

Memory lane…Baker blankets are so handsome.

[Ambitious_Kate]

Just so yous all know, I still buy pull on boots, never ever bought zippered field or show boots. Still use boot pulls, have nice wooden ones, and STILL use a boot jack, why, its sitting right there next to the door. So there. HATE the look of zippered boots, and HATE the look of the waisted ankle boots these days. Really think they are awful tacky.

[roseymare]

I bought a nice pair of plaited reins at an auction a few years back only to find out that someone didn’t know how to take them off and had instead cut them off the bit…I guess I should have expected that in nowhere MO…

[Dewey]

[QUOTE=roseymare;8240427]
I bought a nice pair of plaited reins at an auction a few years back only to find out that someone didn’t know how to take them off and had instead cut them off the bit…I guess I should have expected that in nowhere MO…[/QUOTE]

:eek::mad:

[Trixie]

I have several pairs of plaited reins that I use consistently. ETBW just bought me a pair of beautiful ones that are on my bridle at the moment.

I recall being dragged across an indoor because the boots were sans gusset or zippers… I do NOT miss that. Zippers are worth it. I had torn a calf muscle sometime around age 12 and every time I took the damn boots off, I would howl.

My big horse has been shown in everything from a double half round bridle (1970s - he showed at Upperville in that one in the 2000s) to plain flat tack to fancy top of the line current stuff. Just depends on our mood.

Love my full chaps in winter, but I’ll never step out of the half chaps the rest of the time. As we’re going through our tack room as the owners are selling our old farm, I’ll be keeping my hunt cap for historic purposes.

I do recall when my pony Ashland was the fanciest saddle in the barn. It still fits the current pony and it’s another I keep for sentimental reasons, although my original saddle was a flat Crosby.

And yep, I wear my rust.

[Thoroughbred1201]

[QUOTE=Miss Motivation;8233275]
Stubben Rex saddle
Hermes saddle
Dehner custom boots in both black dress style and brown field boot style
Tom Balding full cheek snaffle
New Cavalry bridle

Eventually acquired all but the last during my long and tacky horse life.[/QUOTE]

The New Cavalry Bridle! I still have several. First one bought in 1990, and several after that. I still use them, and they still get compliments. Best bridles I’ve ever used.