velvet hunt caps and pull on boots ohh and the rust all the rust. And full chaps for schooling
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Under which you can wear denim shorts and I can’t wait to be 10 kinds of “Ooooo, my legs are instantly cool when I unzip!” about it this summer as a re-rider. Someone has to show these half-chaps people some '70s-'80s-'90s glory.
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Because us full chap wearers are now “women of age” I’m seeing more of them, a lot more of them. However I’ve really fallen in love with the new tech fabric breeches and I think they’re even more comfy. I know the sacrilege.
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@phoenixrises, at least one pair of rust breeches and a whitney gold stripe Newmarket are running around my barn. I want to hug their owners in joy while weeping, “You are my childhood!”
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The borrowed French saddle that was so kindly loaned to me as a re-rider, and fit perfectly, is something I aspire to own. In the meantime I’m in my old flat saddle that’s never been a super fit for me but it works for the horse and man, does it build my leg muscle. Not a bad consolation prize as I await the Saddle Fairy.
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This ad is a gas. For a mere 10 bucks more you get the knee roll. Now it’d be another $1,600.
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Also–some of the first movies I ever saw in the theater when I was a child in my single digits were The Black Stallion and International Velvet. Both these films made huge impressions on my already horse addled brain.
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Like the only supplements! And I don’t think I knew anyone who even fed those!
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Ditto, @Trekkie, on those two films. Also, “Casey’s Shadow,” with Walter Matthau as … Walter Matthau. Because he always played the same character and I say that in the best way.
Tatum O’Neil did some seriously good riding in “IV.” It wasn’t all she, of course, but in many shots the equitation is damn fine.
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You ARE young. I was in my mid 20s when International Velvet came out, and I never watched it.
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Oh, @Janet. You must. Christopher Plummer running around NOT tooting a military whistle to call his seven children. Nanette Newman looking like a million bucks. Delicious interior design in a cottage along the English Channel. All that and rust breeches with suede knee patches. What more could you want?
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I’m so old I remember loving the television series, National Velvet.
I read my brother’s copy of National Velvet. It was his assigned reading. Today it would probably be banned for featuring Violet’s cross-dressing for the race…
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There was a television series of National Velvet?!?
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What about the old (Warner Brothers?) series, “Fury.” The voice over always said the tag line, “The story of a horse… and the boy who loved him.”
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Did you have a Madras coat to go with your rust breeches?
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I loved it.
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And “hunters” no longer hunt. So they don’t need outside courses where the fences resemble obstacles you’d meet out hunting.
In fact today’s “hunter” jumps don’t even resemble the arena jumps of the good old days when hunters really hunted.
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And dressage horses don’t go to war like they did in the good old days, either.
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Piaffe! Ka-pow! Ka-pow!
Incoming shoulder fore! Chop-chop-chop.
Look out! It’s THE EXTENDED TROT! Zinga-zing-zing!
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Horse cavalries and artillery regiments still exist in some countries. But they were phased out in the US either just before or during WWII. Before my time, almost before my dad’s time.
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