Is polyester embarrassingly naff for lightweight show jackets?

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What can you do? OK., so I'm a bit of a snob.
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It's for dressage comps on a lazy horsey. Wool jackets, hot weather and hard work don't mix.

Which are the best looking lightweights? I'm tall and slim btw.
 
You will get hotter in polyester, it won't hang as nicely. Just put up with the wool one (or take a look around you at competitions and you will spot the polyester ones a mile off!) You can get lightweight wool jackets, so maybe get one of those instead?
 
depends what your doingm if just small local stuff i'd wear a polyester one - you can chuck in the washing machine.

County level etc - go for the smarter one
 
having had both a polyester jacket, a heavyweight wool one and a lightweight wool one, i can say that i sweated just as much in the HW wool as in the Polyester, go for a LW wool one
 
Thanks for the advice. It's so difficult being a tight wad and a snob!

Is it worth investing in an expensive jacket at my age, and with only one or two comps every blue moon?

I can see me buying one, and then it'll be a humane judge who lets us ride without jackets.
 
I recently got a new jacket - a Pikeur Diana in "cool wool" fabric. It is lovely - looks like wool but is much lighter, and not at all sweaty and shiny like the polyester ones. Have a look here: web page

Ps. Are you oldhag from UDBB btw???

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i never take my jacket off either, even last june on the hottest day of the year i was wearing my HWjacket in the ring (thats the day that i decided to get a LW)
 
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I recently got a new jacket - a Pikeur Diana in "cool wool" fabric. It is lovely - looks like wool but is much lighter, and not at all sweaty and shiny like the polyester ones. Have a look here: web page
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They look very stylish - but they are 80% polyester. Pricey for nylon I'd say.
 
Seeing as horses always end up slobbering all over you I'd go for polyester every time.

That said I have a German one that isn't too shiney either.

Lightweight wool is for people with grooms or mothers...
 
My wool tweed has got green slobber up the back of it, makeup down one sleeve and grey hairs on one side (stupid little pony that i got asked to hold whilst kid went the loo, it was moulting and decided i was a good enough rubbing post!) , but unless you get up realy close and personal then you cant see it, Polyester ones show the dirt more and you have to bung them in the wash more often. My tweed got drycleaned once last season (cos i fell off into the mud in it), my HW tweed one hasntr been cleaned in 2 seasons!

I certainly dont have a groom and mother would kill me if i asked her to do anything other then drive there, take photos and occasionaly hold the pony when i go the loo. She will occasionaly agree to tack up a pony for me IF i have 2 at the show and the classes are running to close but that take alot of groveling and i have to do all preperation before going in the ring with the other one, she will litterlay shove a saddle and bridle on for me and nothing else.
 
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