chaps showing advice please

Tweed, or black with white/cream jods (if that's correct) Also, you should use a flat, plain leather bridle
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thanks the owners got the plain bridle back in oct so thats sorted, have brown saddle using white girths as he is white round tummy. just wondering if to go for blue tweed or what colour there are so many nice ones around and i feel its time to update my tweed as my black one is my dressage one. any excuse to spend money.
 
You need FMMs advice! It needs to be a colour to show off his colouring, so if thes coloured, nothing too loud!
 
For a cob you should wear tweed, with a coloured shirt and tie. Everything should be like "hunter" dress, so plain, and workmanlike.
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Good luck with it!
 
When i used to show my coloured, i wore green tweed jacket, yellow shirt, green and yellow spotted tie, canary yellow jods and black leather boots, you can look on the show ring website not sure what the address is, could be www.smoko.co.uk but not sure x
 
My coloured was chestnuty colour and she looked fab in hunter green colour so we went for that, but i agree it depends on colour to what you to wear.
 
Deffinately a tweed. black jackets arnt correct for showing.
Preferably a green or brown tweed as well as you will find that very few county level people wear blue tweeds and you will look out of place in most classes at county level, but for riding club level it can be gotten away with. A green tweed will go with most colour horses
 
Definatly Tweed or even a plain brown, You can jazz up the Tweed for the Finer Coloured ( I Personally think the pink tweed looks fab on a fine plaited pie bald) Never Black or Navy, thats for riding horses and hacks, my comment is you are saying you have a berown saddle and black bridle, i would aim to get a brownworkman like bridle ( kincade do a hunter bridle for 30.00 with 2 reins in rideaway with flat noseband oiled up look amazing) You have to be careful when selecting colours and ties etc, NEVER wear a button hole with tweed, and if you have a mixed coloure tweed select a waistcoat ( optional), tie and scrunchi or ribbon with something from the jacket or a coordinating coloure if you have green try red etc, go for cream or even canary jods with tweed never white. Long or short boots depending on your age, if short choose brown or oxblood boots, as for hat if you are due a new one slect a colour to go with your jacket again black is quite harsh, i prefer a green or brown ( champion do these though theydont have the flesh strap which in my opnion doesnt matter) for around £50. Osborne do a book called show ring style maybe a little outdated now, but look at sites such as pretty ponies, they have all the upto date tweeds and colour coordinations, you dont have to pay a massive amount look on ebay.
 
Standard turnout would be:
Green or brown tweed jacket (preferably not blue tweed as these are quite old fashioned now)
No button hole
Hair in a hairnet (depending on age whether a bun or not)
Brown gloves, brown cane
Blue hat with leather harness or beagler (again depending on age or preference). It is quite popular for M&Ms and other pony riders to have coloured hats. However adults (women) tend to stick with blue. Black for men.
Long boots should be black, short boots should be brown - again depending on your age. Not sure with coloureds when it is correct to wear spurs with long boots.
Pony should wear plain brown/havana bridle with a noseband to suit the size of the head. Black is sometimes worn on piebalds with a black saddle. Discreet numnah if required. Depending on the colour of his tummy, you can have either a leather girth or a white one. If it is white, make sure it is spotless!
Cream shirt (you can do the Tesco yellow duster trick on a white shirt if necessary)
Nice contrasting tie (never black or white)
Tie pin
Cream or canary jods, never white or any other colour

I would have thought that a nice green tweed would suit a piebald - Alexander James do some lovely ones. The best thing is to try to get to a biggish show where all the major brands are exhibiting (like Royal Windsor for example) and try loads on. Shame you missed Olympia as there were 100s of jackets to try on! It is tricky buying from ebay as each make of jacket has a different fit. I am fine in AJ jackets, but Pretty Ponies gape and look awful on me, but fit other people fine.
Go for the heaviest weight wool you can afford. This will always hang better than the lighter weight ones and I promise you it is worth sweating in the hot weather if your jacket looks right. Also make sure you don't buy it too large - you need it to be quite snug fitting, without pulling the buttons. Try to avoid dry cleaning the jacket as well. The wool is never as nice once it has been cleaned. Goes a bit floppy!
Get a piece of elastic instead of string to put your number on. Make a loop at either end and you can hook the ends over the buttons of your jacket.

Hope this helps!
 
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