Tenney’s Saddlery carries Aramas bridles - wonderful bridles and Kathryn Tenney is just fabulous!
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I love that type of leather too, the plain flap saddles, and the old Crosby saddles! I still have a '70s/early '80s PDN and a Sovereign from 1997, and tons of Crosby tack ranging from the '70s to the late '90s/early 2000’s. It seems the older, the better with Crosby stuff. The bridles are some of my favorites!
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Newman Tackified Gloves…my favorite but no longer made. I did find some similar kid’s (I have smaller hands, and took an XS which equals a kid XL) football glove knock-offs but they only come in black.
That would be great news! I thought they were being phased out.
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Ian Millar ‘Vision’ Saddle by Crosby was my favorite saddle for a long time.
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I haven’t heard about that. I sure hope not! I know just this past year or so, one of my local tack shops announced that they were getting more of them in stock.
Yes! I found a lone pair on Poshmark, new with tags, a few months back that I covet.
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I loved my Crosby PDN. I remember my instructor saying well there’s no bells or whistles on this thing…
Yeh…I know 
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@critter, could you please include a link? I loved my tackified gloves and am desperate to replace them, nothing else compares on a rainy day!
@Words_of_Wisdom here is the link:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OSQYOTA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I found the youth large was the same as the XS…they feel very similar in weight and style as the Newman gloves and I figure that will be good for schooling.
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I can’t find that bell shaped tack thing that has the hooks on the inside to hang at the cross ties.
Also, Pikeur used to have a breech style called Cathy that was so perfect for me. They were the secret polyester stretch pants of breeches, with hidden elastic in the waist. I was only ever able to find them in Germany, pre-online shopping, and they were discontinued 20 years ago. I need them now more than ever. 
Like this? OK, this isn’t quite the same as the one from a bygone era that I have hanging in my tack room.
I found one of those-- the “Tack-O-Bell” at a little tiny feed store in a little tiny town this summer. It was a DINKY store, it had chickens roaming around in the yard, it was made up of about three sheds put together-- but there it was! I grabbed it! The cardboard hanger is faded and flyspecked, but I have it and I just need to find the right place to put it. I thought I was seeing things when I first spotted it.
ETA: And I paid $3.55 for it!
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Yes, because the old ones weren’t $45. 
Jealous!
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Like I said, I thought I was seeing things when I first saw it. And again when I saw how much it cost. It was the last one and I grabbed it and hung onto it all the while I browsed around the store.
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The Grand Prix Hampton II breeches. These are my favourite breeches of all time in terms of fit, they are just so comfortable and pretty flattering too.
The custom Elizabeth G deerskin seat breeches that were made by a lady in KY.
I know what those “laced in opposite directions” reins looked like. They were cool. They also looked hard to clean, so I never pulled the trigger on those. But I do have a thin (think 1/2" not 5/8" cheeks) Courbette bridle in the Tack Cryofreeze. It has been oiled but never used. I think this is a cob-sized one. I think I lent the horse-sized version to some one only to try on (and buy if she wanted it) that she doesn’t remember and never gave back. That was 10 years ago; I’m still bummed. Those bridles were from the time when Courbette seemed to use the same kind of leather than other British makers like Crosby used.
Also, I remember those lined-with-white-everywhere bridles. I never thought I had a horse with a pretty-enough head for one. But they were interesting.
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OMG, forgot all about those. I think original price was about $65. Years ago I found a store in MD doing closeout and bought all their remaining stock in my size. Comfy, flattering, never a swamp ass and wore like iron.
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