Horses vs "glamour"?!!!

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As I sit here at work, cleaning the black crap from underneath my nails with a paper clip, I wonder where it is that non-horse folk seem to get this bizarre idea that horse riding and dealing with horses is glamourous?!!!!!!!

Can anyone shed any light on this, or share some stories of similar angst?! I mean.... perhaps the 2-5 minutes of "glamour" we spend in the ring/arena means that of course, the other 23 hours 55 minutes of every day is exactly the same (obviously!!)
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I suppose all non horsey people see on tv are lovely clean wooden boxed yards with people in all the designer gear looking pristine with the horses placid and practically smiling, and then they see all of the competition stuff on Tv, so I suppose we can't fully blame them lol, BLAME THE TV AND MEDIA IMAGE!
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My physio commented on this the other day as I had to go straight from the yard for my appointment. As he scanned my filthy jeans, stained jumper (which had been clean only an hour before) and enjoyed the faint small of eau de equine poo, he did portray his surprise at the difference between reality and his image of glamerous nubile blondes in spotless cream jobs, clean flopping hair and gleaming boots.
The poor man is scarred for life.
 
whenever i tell guys that i ride horses, they have visions of me riding in a bikini on the beach or wearing tight white joddies and black boots and smaking a whip against my side, I'm sure.

reality - a baggy hoody, hair that hasn't been washed for a few days and not even brushed, sh!it stained joddies and straw stuck to my boots. mmm sexy. oh yeah and my horse is covered in mud and sh!t too
 
Oh I get all the long leather boots, spurs and whips jibes at work, think they are beginning to get the real picture though as I have been told I have hay/straw in my hair on numerous occasions when I arrive at work!
 
Not everyone is messy, i know this women who is always clean and tidy and mucks out and brushes her horse with rubber gloves on, to be honest i'd rather have straw in my hair and a big hoody on than look as silly as her anyday!
 
It's a wonderful marketing machine! How often have we looked at the models wearing the latest breeches from Pikeur or some fab pale pink cuddly fleece top amd then bought them to wear around the yard! I stopped in my tracks the other day realising that was tidying a much heap in £100+ breeches £150 boots... why? Cheepie joggers and wellies would do the job!
 
I think people think horse riding is a 'glamour' sport bcos in the day you had to have a lot of money to have horses. But the people at my local spar shop now know that horse riding anit a glamour sport because on my way home from the yard i'll pop in and i have mucky hands, covered in mud, brown face, and have a lovely cent of weeee lol hahaha I defo dont buy any top brand riding wear like £100 jodys cos 10mins with me i will of trashed them lol
 
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Not everyone is messy, i know this women who is always clean and tidy and mucks out and brushes her horse with rubber gloves on, to be honest i'd rather have straw in my hair and a big hoody on than look as silly as her anyday!

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Seriously?!?!?! Well, each to their own but I can't imagine grooming with rubber gloves on?! And besides... there's no escaping the smell, mwah ha ha ha ha!!!!
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I stopped in my tracks the other day realising that was tidying a much heap in £100+ breeches £150 boots... why? Cheepie joggers and wellies would do the job!

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I think I must have bought the Scotchguarded version! I always find I can just dust the grub off my expensive breeches (Cavallo ones in particular) but my cheapies stain like no ones business.
 
The post about the woman grooming her horse in rubber gloves is helarious, it has tickled my funny bone.

My other half always used to look at me sympatheticaly when i used to turn up at the pub on a Friday night in my stinking jeans, dealer boots & T Shirt for a drink when everyone else was dressed up to the nines.

I was always to tired to go and get changed, but always enjoyed my drink, my OH just used to laugh and say there was something wrong with me (always in a loveing way though).

Put it this way i was like a pig in S**t and happy with it
 
Also see my earlier post "oops what would you do", am sat in work gently smelling the place out in stable boots because i forgot my work shoes.

But i do enjoy my moment of glamour
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- what about 2 mins every week if lucky!! then you get off land in a pile of poo and your darling rubs his head up your arm and lo jacket full of gunk

Oh hang on everyone else in the office has gone out on site!!
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Ha ha more time on HHO
 
I blame Jilly Cooper!!
To be fair got changed at the office this week and one of the guys said "its not about glamour and fashion then", my glamourous outfit consisted of
long sleeved thermal top
t-shirt
grey sweatshirt with hood
blue jodphurs, the old fashioned nylony type with a run in.
Air force issue thick knee high socks over jods, wont' go under.
black muddy joddy boots
So no its not about fashion
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this is all brilliant stuff. I hold down a fairly senior job and regularly turn up to work thinking - I can smell the wonderful odour of "Midnight Poo" or "Eue de Poo".

I muck out before work v. early and generally scrub my hands before I leave - but there is still the odd bit of the black stuff under a nail.

I thought the other day - when was the last time I paid £100 for a pair of shoes - try never ! Though my boy costs at least that every 6 weeks. I wouldn't have it any other way.

I do have an understanding partner though - who still luvs me even though I look like a bogey at home !
 
I get over the mud and poo under my nails by having gel tips nice and short with a white gel over the tips so no matter how filthy my nails are underneath they look all nice and pretty on the top..

They are short though
 
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Not everyone is messy, i know this women who is always clean and tidy and mucks out and brushes her horse with rubber gloves on, to be honest i'd rather have straw in my hair and a big hoody on than look as silly as her anyday!

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I wore rubber gloves to clean tack - I got fed up of the perma stains on my fingers!
 
Oh the shame, I do everything in gloves, muck out, groom, change rugs etc, its the first thing I do when I arrive - go to the tack room and put on gloves!

However, I do have lovely long nails in which I paint every night and most people comment that I can't possibly have horses as my nails are so good (it did take me 8 yrs to grow them as I bit them so bad).

I am not on full livery, have 3 horses and do them all myself. And yes, my friends do laugh at me for my glove obsession, but needs must and all that!
 
And the moulting season has started, so I shall not be wearing any smart dark suits for work appointments for a few months. Much better to be in something that doesn't show the white hairs which get everywhere!
 
ha ha this post is funny.

I try to retain some glamour even when surrounded by poo !!

I dont insist on wearing make up to the yard though and some days don't actually bother to brush my hair either just whack it back in a bun.

I have acrylic nails so often have gloves on - but only wear gloves for grooming if its really icy cold!!
All the time i have nice painted long nails i feel glamourous even in my baggy "stroppy cow" hoody and my tired old baggy jodphurs.

If i know that i will have to go out in my riding wear, to watch a show or to do shopping etc i usually put on my nicer breeches (i.e. ones that havent lost all their shape and make my arse look like its down by my knees) and tidy joules jumper etc.

i must be a bit snobby i guess !!
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Do give me some tips on how to keep acrylic nails on around horses?? lol...everytime i have my done, they end up looking poo or breaking
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would love nice smart nails as like you they make me feel nice even if i look crap haha
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Glamourous at the yard hahah, joke, well unless i go down in work gear to turn her out but even then its still not glamourous as such. hair still tied back, trousers, nice top etc. But I do always do my makeup, never step out the house with nothing on lol
 
i probably look better at the stables than i do at work LOL!! i dont wear any make up to work i cant be bothered but at weekends i like to make an effort to not look like a heap of horse poo just for a change!!

Get a good nail technician!! mine very rarely come off. i used to have mine done by the chinese people in miadstone but they were wrecking my nails with the electric files. Now a friend does them for me every 2 weeks.
As long as ive got my nails done i dont care about much else!! mad really as people look at your face first not your hands!! mind you i cant see my own face so who cares
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This post is making me giggle! Haven't logged on here in ages. Am currently living and working in London for at least the next 3 years and although I'm fortunate enough to ride every 2 weeks for half an hour I miss just being with horses so much. I'm one of those people who only has to be in the presence of a pony and I end up covered in hair / mud / poo! Glamourous it isn't but well worth it I'm sure.
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I can never understand who buys all the, admittedly lovely, Pikeur breeches and tops and jackets etc in lemon yellow and baby pink! Maybe they are for the uber rich who have grooms and just get on and off the horse but never have anything to do with it/
All my stuff is either brown, black or navy!
I did split my old yard jeans though on Monday evening while zooming round the yard with exactly 1 hour to do my box resting horse, who is currently disgusting, before I had to pick kids up from football training! Thankfully it was dark and my jacket covered the fact that my bum was hanging out! Not a pretty sight!
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I had a reverse comment - farmer where I had my horse was used to seeing us all covered in muck or worse (except one friend who could muck out 2 in a white jacket & pale jods & still be clean - lucky so and so !!) anyway, used their house one day to change into smart work gear as had a meeting & got the comment - "Oh didn't know you had legs - you don't scrub up bad at all !!" Thankfully he was a really sweet old guy & the place was horse heaven so I didn't feel the need to flatten him !!
 
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you need to get yourself mates rates!! only way i can make it work believe me!!
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Does your mate want a new client?? haha
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I do know somone that does them but couldnt gurantee seeing her all the time
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Yes, I must admit at work dos (and the first night out I went out with people at my yard) I got the "Oh my God, didn't know you looked like that/ almost didn't recognise you/ don't you scrub up well" which I'm sure are nice comments.... just means I look like sh!t the rest of the time!!!!!!!
 
Went for a sj lesson the other week, was -8 when I arrived at my yard, hence everything frozen, so no time to stop at cash point on way to lesson, (nice Indian man in garage is used to me screeching to a halt with trailer on & dashing to said cash point) Anyway, arrived at lesson, was tacking up & chatting to Karen, Paul's (who teaches me) wife, explained about the cash point, to which she jokingly said that I would have to pay him in kind, my response was that if he could break through multiple layers, which would then reveal long johns & bridget jones knickers, he was welcome to give it a go. Her response, "You know Paul, he'd rather have the money!!" so obviously, my glamorous image was not filling him with lust, I dropped his cash off on the Tuesday!! Had this been Jilly Cooper, no doubt I would have been wearing a silken thong under my slinky skin tight white breeches, oh well dream on!!
 
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