Light hearted post - bsja dress

Id recommend getting a BSJA approved jacket if you're going to do it regularily - I much prefer it to my show jacket as its showerproof and far more flexible/comfy. Plus you can also wear whatever you like underneath if you do the zip all the way up! I wore a scruffy jumper under it during the winter and nobody knew. If you want to wear a show jacket then just wear a nice stock shirt underneath (with no stock just the collar). Otherwise, just beige or white jods and usual boots. I also dont use any "gear" on my horse (ie. no martingale, no flash, no nasty bit etc.), the only "showjumpery" thing on him is fluffy white tendon & fetlock boots...! (BTW, we are also eventers!).
 
I am loving this thread, but think we will have to pass on the BSJA Mother and Daughter thing - I know I wont pass for Mini TX's sister anyway, and although I do have a penchant for acrylic nails, I cant really say I have a thing for yelling in the warm up at the practice fence. Have to say the only bit of sj we get to do is at a very cliquey EC not far from our home town. Well, it is really, really cliquey and we have learned to dress like the locals and blend in as I have had some pretty nasty mums make pretty nasty comments about my eventer daughter. Usually when she beats them. Umm, you dont get that out eventing, well I havent seen it

A really good friend of mine has a 9 year old daughter, who show jumps for some national squad (god know what!), and he always cracks the same joke when we meet up. 'I cant fraternize with you. Your brat is an eventer, mine is a showjumper, they dont mix and we cant talk to each other!' His tongue is well and truly in his cheek, but he has admitted to me, totally off the record that most of his showjumping mates, with kids that compete, regard most kids that compete at eventing as 'Spoilt little brats, with parents with load of money'. His opinion, not mine, and my daughter is not a spoilt brat and I dont have loads of money.

Am now going off to buy Mini TX a weird red grackle bridle thing and a dead sheep ......
 
Oh,I am sooo sorry it has taken so long for me to reply to this post,but I had to search out my 'tena-lady' incontinence pants (bought so that i could go jumping 3 weeks after giving birth to number 3...)before I dared read further than than the 4th post.
I really am going to have to take a 'busmans' holiday to come and behold the fashion-phenomenon called 'BS'! I have lead, but,a sheltered life....pray tell what one must wear as 'mother of team-member' (tongue-in-cheek) present wardrobe offers... sunglasses,vest t-shirt,dirty shorts(from over-use) and DMs...Am I missing something?
 
louisem said:
Oh,I am sooo sorry it has taken so long for me to reply to this post,but I had to search out my 'tena-lady' incontinence pants (bought so that i could go jumping 3 weeks after giving birth to number 3...)before I dared read further than than the 4th post.
I really am going to have to take a 'busmans' holiday to come and behold the fashion-phenomenon called 'BS'! I have lead, but,a sheltered life....pray tell what one must wear as 'mother of team-member' (tongue-in-cheek) present wardrobe offers... sunglasses,vest t-shirt,dirty shorts(from over-use) and DMs...Am I missing something?
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Yes, but on the other hand you can actually jump. Proper big tracks. Actually make that Proper BIG Tracks. Therefore you can wear what you like! The above only applies below 1.10. ;)

ps. nice to see you back!
 
hehe this has made me laugh :D
we sometimes have bs shows nxt to our yard and i know not all sj's are as discribed but at the show next to us they are def like this
i stood out like a sore thumb at there unaffiliated comps were the same people compete but have to admit a couple of them were really nice and helpful even though they looked a bit scary :D
 
hahaha this post is hysterical. BBR- what you need for BS is an ugly BSJA jacket and some white sarm hippique jods with the writing down the leg. also patent/ blingy de niro boots for you and a cycle helmet hat a la geoff billington. for your pony you need ten tonnes of dead sheep under his saddle, some weighted boots to make him pick his feet up properly and a huge shanked bit. also a market harborough and a standing martingale.

your helpers should be dressed head to toe in kingsland or whitaker and should carry round ten million rugs for standing about the collecting ring. they should also have a collected of sharp spurs for your use and a good whip for leathering your horse should it dare stop :D

*DISCLAIMER* this is a JOKE- many of my friends SJ. they do laugh at me because i SJ in my tweed, stock and HS1- they say i look like eventer. secretly i am happy about this :D
 
"patent diamonds down the side, sequins, shiny thread and pink or baby blue or preferably all of the above! "

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i want some of these! baby blue please!!!!!!!!!
 
Innit! Gotta get wit da times man! Show jackets are best in LOUD colour. Bright blue, red ect. is all "cool". Black is not so. Oh and find the most horrid synthetic fabric you possibly can, then make your jacket and don't forget to make it at least one size too small.

Wear what you bloody well like. I have a theory for BS that the scruffier you and horse are, the better you will do and jump. I now wear a tweed jacket most of the time with my protector hat (looks pretty odd but its the only hat that won't go below my eyes when jumping) so look like some wierd event/sj/showing person hybrid. I got some blue bling metalab spurs once and my friend was so embarrassed she threw them out the window of the lorry.
 
Halfstep said:
This post has made me laugh - and look on the Joshua Jones website for the first time: OMG the prices!!!!! :eek::eek::eek:
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Omg, i thought SJ was meant to be the cheap option! :p

Sorry but you wont see me fitting in with the croud any time soon if its that expensive!! :p
 
£160 for a stock shirt? £130 for a saddlecloth? Or a browband (they are lush by the way). I really like their jackets but the cheapest i nearly £400.....
 
£160 for a show shirt?? oh good god you have to be kidding me?!?!

Also didn't mention when I posted earlier I'm a recent showjumper turned eventer I just never did the whole matching bling thing even when jumping some vaguely decent tracks (aka nicely over 1m10 although no where in region of the stupidly high fences SJM jumps) ;) :p :D
 
Absoloute madness! Starting to make eventing not look so pricey! ...Wait did i just say that?

Okay, so long as i stay away from the chavy clothing, i wil be fine, and SJ can still be the cheaper option. Nearly fell of the sofa (dont even know if thats possibly, unless i throw myself on the floor) when i saw that stockshirt!!! :p and the sleevless one £159?!?!?!?! crazyyyyyy
 
I Identify showjumpers through by points!

If anyone ever says to me that they are a showjumper, I always ask do they
A) Have a saddlecloth with their name on it
B) Do they own a coat with their name on it
C) Own some dead sheep
D) have a motorbike hat
E) know what a hairnet is
F) can they jump out of a trot? (only eventers jump from a trot im told!)

Everyone I have asked so far have told me that they have their name on their saddlecloth.

Sad, isnt it, that all showjumpers have a fear of forgetting their name?!
 
Ok, no bling,but I must confess to a 'slightly bluer than blue' jumping jacket, of a shorter 'does my bum look big in this?' length. www.youtube.com/arenbergstud (domino 7yo) .....It was so 'pwetty' am thinking sj-m junior approved this with a view to re-assigning current content of stable-wardrobe-tackroom sometime soon!!!
 
I have to admit when I did dressage i had as much bling as was allowed and I am now thinking of doing BS and I am rather (shamefully!) excited that i can have as much bling as possible and wear what i want. My previous experience of BSJA is that they are so much friendlier than BD. I hate not having start times though!
 
have to say i too love the fact that the BSJA let you stick bling to ANYTHING and dont care.....im constantly torturing BD with emails/calls..."can i wear this revolting bling? what about this? and this???" to the point that i can hear them howling with laughter when i ring with my latest bling related query!!!!
 
Gathered from watching BSJA/forums/facebook:

It must cost A LOT, even if it's just a tail bandage. You must tell everyone hiw much it cost and the make.

You have to be dressed in Kingsland, Euro Star and Gersemi head to toe.

Jockey skull is OK, especially if it's expensive!

You've got to match: show jacket collar, saddle cloth, SJ shirt, hair tie (no one seems to have hairnets)
 
"You have to be dressed in Kingsland, Euro Star and Gersemi head to toe"

Oooh, i have a Gersemi jacket! (PS it is LOVELY) but i think i would boil in it when competing, so no use there ;) haha
 
:D :D :D :D :D :D PMSL at this very tongue in cheek humour!

if you really want to stand out please dont forget your neck strap!
me and my girl stand out at BS for a few reasons
a) she is a TB!
b) i gasp at the 90cm open; why is the first fence and at least a few others not less than 90cm to ease us in? :D
c)why dont i have a time to jump at?
d)we have a neck strap
e)i came out the ring one day after knocking the last fence down in the jump off, moving us to second place elated as she jumped a scary filler! whilst patting her and telling her how wonderful she is a woman frowned at me and said you do realise you just missed first place? think she truly thought i had missed the point of competing!
btw we are rubbish at sj (cause i am a wuss!) and i have huge respect for anyone who can jump real high over those scary coloured poles, give me a huge ditch and a 3'3" log anyday! i have recently bought a half dead sheep for under saddle so maybe it will make her jump better! lol :D :D
 
Went to an Unaff show recently and apparently people were saying how s.l.o.w the pony was - who cares he jumps everything clear unlike crazy SJ ponies!!
 
Kez1001 in answer to your questions

"why is the first fence and at least a few others not less than 90cm to ease us in?"
Simply because we BS riders are "hardcore" :p

"why dont i have a time to jump at?"

Because there's nothing more humerous than a bunch of white jhodded blinged up riders getting stressed and sending their grooms running to and fro from the collecting ring board, telling them how many riders they have left :p



*all tongue in cheeck guys btw :D*
 
boogles - :D but i cant possibly jump a whole course the same height hehehe!
oooo i'd forgotten about the number board, i'm rubbish at working that out too, very stressful, "there are ten infront of you then 5 mins later there are 17 then andother 5mins and they shout you in!" stressed out our sparkled blinged boots!
"giggles!"
 
Just wear what you want, if you go in eventer green ;) you'll blend in so none of the blinged up bunch will see you anyway.

Just remember when you go in the ring, the name of the game is leaving the fences up!! ;) :D :D
 
only_me said:
I Identify showjumpers through by points!

If anyone ever says to me that they are a showjumper, I always ask do they
A) Have a saddlecloth with their name on it
B) Do they own a coat with their name on it
C) Own some dead sheep
D) have a motorbike hat
E) know what a hairnet is
F) can they jump out of a trot? (only eventers jump from a trot im told!)

Everyone I have asked so far have told me that they have their name on their saddlecloth.

Sad, isnt it, that all showjumpers have a fear of forgetting their name?!
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I am a showjumper...
A) no
B) no
C) yes.. but only a half pad ;) eventers have these too! i have seen :D haha
D) no
E) yes, i always wear one!! ALWAYS..think it looks horrific without one tbh :)
F) yep. i jump out of trot a lot when im schooling at home :D

i'm probably just not a 'normal' showjumper... maybe thats why i always have fences down ;) :D hahaha x
 
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