a little showing question

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can you wear brown boots, or do they have to be black, it is for working hunter and ridden coloured. I normally wear black with my tweed jacket and black hat, but have just bought some lovely long brown ones,
 
I'm going to go against the flow and say no you cant.
Whilst it isnt against the rules, it is frowned upon and will make you look like you dont know what you are doing.
 
There's a very well known producer of cobs that wears them. They are "her thing"
I used to have the same brown Regent Graftons as she wears and stopped wearing them as I didn't want people to think I was a fan girl copying her.
Although they obviously aren't "banned" black are the more correct colour.
I think I'd rather be remembered for having a good horse not the colour of my boots lol.
 
twobears-said producer can get away with it, she also seems to be able to get away with wax jackets in the rain rather that a traditional tweed where the rest of us are getting soaked. You can get away with a lot if your face fits LOL!
I too would rather be remembered for my horse!
 
Said brown boot producer doesn't get much respect these days or many HOYS tickets compared to yester year. She does a lot with retired racehorses but again doesn't get much repect for it because she specifically looks for the ones that have raced once and are proven donkeys!
 
EKW said:
Said brown boot producer doesn't get much respect these days or many HOYS tickets compared to yester year. She does a lot with retired racehorses but again doesn't get much repect for it because she specifically looks for the ones that have raced once and are proven donkeys!
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I had noticed the apparent decline of her ill gotten (as far as I'm concerned) popularity.
Didn't realise she was doing the whole RoR thing now.
 
She won the ROR Class at HOYS the first year it was held and by all accounts she shouldn't have as her horse was naughty. She qualified again the next 2 years but hasnt for the last couple. She does a lot of showing clinics with the ROR as well as picking up a horse or 2 to retrain and then sell for a fortune more than its worth.
 
In my opinion i would stay in black, standing out is not a good thing as far as showing is concerned. We did it once at ponies uk with a child in a show pony class wearing a plain brown show jacket, brown velvet hat and cream ribbons, after the class the judge said to us to keep to the traditional blue even though jacket and pony looked amazing !!. I also found that you have to buy the best you can possibly afford as we did a class at one show in a nice but not top of the range jacket and was unplaced. The following week we did same class with same judge and child wearing a recently purchased made to measure pretty ponies show jacket. This time we won, and lots of folks said what a difference the jacket had made !!!
 
In showing there is definitely something that is always 'correct'

producers/facey-ness aside you stand a chance of being placed

If you deviate from that 'correct' thing (be it boots, jackets, black tack, hair, etc) you run the risk of getting a judge that doesn't like such deviation therefore you immediately cut your chances

people can argue till they are blue in the face that these things shouldn't matter but the thing is they usually do

...rightly or wrongly!
 
OP, if you are male by all mean wear a black hat, but if female, a navy hat is correct.
Both brown and black boots are permitted but black are correct. Gloves should be brown and for ladies, hair in a bun, no scrunchies unless you are under 16.
 
Dannylandrover said:
In my opinion i would stay in black, standing out is not a good thing as far as showing is concerned. We did it once at ponies uk with a child in a show pony class wearing a plain brown show jacket, brown velvet hat and cream ribbons, after the class the judge said to us to keep to the traditional blue even though jacket and pony looked amazing !!. I also found that you have to buy the best you can possibly afford as we did a class at one show in a nice but not top of the range jacket and was unplaced. The following week we did same class with same judge and child wearing a recently purchased made to measure pretty ponies show jacket. This time we won, and lots of folks said what a difference the jacket had made !!!
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Lol, the jacket definately makes a difference. I did a season on a coloured in the Pretty Ponies Pink tweed. Overall picture looked fantastic but I got seriously knocked for it. God I loved that jacket lol
 
Colouredwelsh said:
Lol, the jacket definately makes a difference. I did a season on a coloured in the Pretty Ponies Pink tweed. Overall picture looked fantastic but I got seriously knocked for it. God I loved that jacket lol
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Im so glad pink tweed was a one season wonder! I can cope with pink being one of the colours in a keepers tweed but I saw a few pink herringbone tweeds that were nasty to say the least! They only got away with them because they were on kids in lead rein classes!
 
EKW said:
Im so glad pink tweed was a one season wonder! I can cope with pink being one of the colours in a keepers tweed but I saw a few pink herringbone tweeds that were nasty to say the least! They only got away with them because they were on kids in lead rein classes!
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Lol, I definately wasn't a little kid on a LR ha ha.
 
thank you all for your comments, I am female, but the showing I do is only riding club level, but still know how picky the judges are. showing is a crazy discipline, but I do enjoy it
 
twobearsarthur said:
There's a very well known producer of cobs that wears them. They are "her thing"
I used to have the same brown Regent Graftons as she wears and stopped wearing them as I didn't want people to think I was a fan girl copying her.
Although they obviously aren't "banned" black are the more correct colour.
I think I'd rather be remembered for having a good horse not the colour of my boots lol.
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Lyn russell! shes barmy lol and they are normal the bright orangy brown haha!
 
A lot of show-ring dress derives from the hunting field. Brown boots are worn for cubbing, which normally takes place at dawn during the late summer/early autumn months, and which is generally over and done with by mid morning at the latest, when the day warms up and the conditions are not conducive for scenting. Hence why brown boots are not worn after lunch time.
 
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