There are a couple of us at my barn who recently dug out our 25yr old full chaps and have been rocking them unapologetically. Mine have the hunter green piping down the side lol. Not gonna lie, they are great for keeping warm this time of year.
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Amen to the demise of quality tack and RIP Bev and his namesake tack shop.
Breastplates have been out of fashion for decades now, but that strap sure is handy when you’re sitting in a young one.
Unclipped patches to hide spur marks, which to me screams “Oh hai! My horse isn’t in front of my leg!”
True epiphany in bit mouthpieces, both for better and for worse.
There’s always been designer drugs, but I feel like they’re getting more and more dangerous. It used to be that these were FDA approved drugs being used at higher doses or more frequently. Now it seems like Walter White’s at every horse show.
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How is Aiden? Does anyone know?
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Yeah girl, get it!! Oh, and let’s not forget we were all in saddles that were slick as snot. Couple this with the baggy, slick breeches and…farking yikes. There was no grip whatsoever. And that was after schooling in full chaps all the time. It’s a wonder we didn’t all just slide right off.
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That is one advantage to riding in either boots and breeches or half chaps at home. It is less of an adjustment when you show.
I still use and prefer the plainer, flatter saddles. When I have to ride in one of the newer, padded saddles, I feel like I’m sitting on a couch. Lol.
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If the half chaps look like this…
Oh, jeez! Really?
My poor horses! I must embarrass the heck out of them when I show up in my full chaps and velvet-covered helmet, and plop a breastplate on them, as well as a fake sheepskin fitted pad.
Kind of like I felt when I wanted Calvin Klein jeans and my mom bought me something at JC Penneys.
It’s a wonder they can show their faces at the barn! 
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Who, or what, is Walter White?
Fictional meth maker & dealer from the TV show Breaking Bad
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Thx! I’ve never seen it.
I just know the reference. Never had any desire to watch the show.
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@Sing_Mia_Song! Another blast-from-the-forum’s-past user name, and one of my favorites. You killed me with the WW reference. KILLED.
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Bare back + Hackamore + Galloping through the hills of southern California = So Free: those were the days.
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Haha. I remember the baggy! You HAD to have baggy breeches.
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I often did the bareback with halter and two lead ropes approach. No tack to clean. Lol.
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I must admit. I still have a pair of puke green TS’s in my closet. Dry clean only of course with the weird crotch patch sewn in. My mother sent them to me thinking that I could wear them again-lol.
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I was showing with a faded velvet helmet in the early 2010s because my mom refused to buy a brown one and I wanted that brown velvet, dammit! I don’t think I took my helmet off my head all day when I’d be setting jumps for Kip so it would get more sun exposure 
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Zowie. Great form on the two of you. Is that 4 feet? (The fence, not on the horse.)
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You… you know you could have just left the helmet on a jump standard and gotten the same effect, right? Lol.
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