fancy dress with their horse-anyone done it?

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has anyone done fancy dress with their horse?
what did you go as/what theme?
am toying with the idea of easter fancy dress
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what sort of paint could i use on ned?was thinking about food colouring-unless it rains!
 
I was about 11 at the time.lol but I went as a punk rocker with ripped jeans, doc martins, funky wig etc and we gelled the mane in to a mochican(sp) and sprayed it multi coloured with those colour hair spray things you can get and did the same on the tail. We won!
 
I did a gymkhana as a witch and tied straw to the horse's tail so he was a broomstick
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but that did mean we kept getting chased by small hungry ponies.

Made a great costume last year, but didn't get to use it as ponio had lost a shoe ... I had a flying suit and made him a set of aeroplane wings, a propeller and a tailfin.

I may not be normal.
 
I used to lead my little sister in the local show on my pony; we won pretty much every year! I think the two best outfits were clowns (horse wore a big crepe paper ruff, pompoms on tack, ruffs round fetlocks, etc and my sister had a clown suit and wig) and "little devils" - red horns, a red rug, we even made a devil's tail for the pony and a sign to go behind the saddle. My sister wore a red leotard, horns, cape and tail. We used to have loads of fun making it all. Just and make sure you get the horse used to all the extra flappy, sticky-out, colourful stuff BEFORE you go! There are coloured hairsprays you can buy which might work on horse hair too...
 
12 of us did a choreographed musical ride a couple of years back and we all dressed up as Bunny Girls! Scoop necked black T shirt, black jods and boots. Cut the collar off an old white shirt and wear that round your neck above the T shirt, with a cheap clip on black bow tie. Then pink baby's tights stuffed with foam and with a white elongated oval sewn on the front to look like rabbit ears, the pink tights then stretched over our riding hats to finish the ensemble. One of my bunny ears began to droop halfway through the ride. I like to think it looked quite saucy but I suspect I just looked a pratt! Still, we brought the house down and raised almost £1,000 for our local RDA group!

Thank god I have no pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I used to enter EVERY fancy dress class at every show in the area when I was kid....and usually win! I won at the local county show 4 years running!
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And of course I have some pics!
These are the 2 costumes we won with:
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These are my friends too
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I'm on the grey in the background here
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I've also entered as a washing machine, a birthday cake/party(which involved having balloons tied to the pony's bridle!) and many other that I can't remember!
 
personally i think it's a bit of fun for the kiddies if they aren't the competative type. If I tried to subject Beau to this type of ritual humiliation she wouldn't speak to me for atleast a week! She'd possibly let a small child do it on her as long as she was very well disguised so none of her friends recognised her. She HATES this kind of thing being a very serious sort of pony. Lottie'd love it but again largly for the kiddy element, she'd think I'd gone mad if I did this with her.
 
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I dressed up as St Martin last year for a parade (a saint, he was a Roman cavalry officer whose claim to fame was cutting his cloak in half to share with a beggar). I made scale armour out of craft foil sewn onto a red T-shirt, and had a red cloak (prepped with a loose seam to come into two pieces at the right moment) and a sword. I turned an old hat into a Roman helmet by covering it with foil, and gluing on that rigid foam stuff you use for flower arrangements in the shape of a crest and sticking many many red feathers in it.

I spent several weeks before the parade preparing the pony for flapping cloaks, etc.

I re-used the costume for our Christmas show and won with it, although the school horse wouldn't let me mount as he was terrified of my helmet.
The armour, on a hanger:
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The helmet, before the foil and feathers were added:
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And here, a link to the newspaper's website for the finished costume:
Pic of the finished costume in the parade

And another one, face on, but in the background:

Pic with little girl in foreground
 
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