Out of fashion tack.

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cptrayes

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I've just seen the thread where someone has seen an overgirth on a horse and wondered what it was. It used to be the norm to use an overgirth for British Eventing cross country but I haven't seen one in years that wasn't on a racehorse.



What other bits of tack have gone completely out of fashion for no obvious reason?
 
Jute and New Zealand rugs. The roller to hold said Jute rug in place.
String vest rugs. Useless on their own but brilliant to thatch with straw.
Lovely thick felt pads for under the saddle.

Not really tack but buckets and Belfast sinks for feed, everyone uses those trug things now.
 
Yes, drop nosebands pretty much gone here too.

And cruppers, possibly because we go to more trouble to make saddles fit properly.
 
Lindylouanne said:
Jute and New Zealand rugs. The roller to hold said Jute rug in place.
String vest rugs. Useless on their own but brilliant to thatch with straw.
Lovely thick felt pads for under the saddle.

Not really tack but buckets and Belfast sinks for feed, everyone uses those trug things now.
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I'm still using a butler sink - longer and more shallow than a Belfast. It's really good, but very rare, I agree.
 
How about those stable rollers with anti cast bars over the top. Or jute stable rugs (thank goodness for modern fabrics). Also not seen one of those girths made of layers of cord stitched together, for years. Used to be the norm when I started.
 
Oh yeah - string vest - my chestnut welshy had a white one for shows (that he shredded).., string/ nylon reins (I had a blue pair)
woollen day rugs (so beautiful I find this a huge shame)
Proper nz rugs
white tape on Dressage plaits
String gloves

I'll stop b4 nostalgia really sets in;)
 
Oh yes! A cord girth and plaited reins in the same colour! The height of fashion. I had red. Very daring in those days :D
 
The westropp "clacky" over reach boots. All the rage in the 90s! Leather tendon and fetlock boots seem to be a thing of the past, as does the eggbutt snaffle. All loose ring these days!
Q
 
Thick square of felt, (same stuff as used in a 3 fold girth), with a tape stitched across the middle. Used on hind fetlocks doubled over and tied within the fold.
 
AdorableAlice said:
Thick square of felt, (same stuff as used in a 3 fold girth), with a tape stitched across the middle. Used on hind fetlocks doubled over and tied within the fold.
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Oh yes!!!! I think I still have some if the mice haven't eaten them.
 
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Quadro said:
The westropp "clacky" over reach boots. All the rage in the 90s! Leather tendon and fetlock boots seem to be a thing of the past, as does the eggbutt snaffle. All loose ring these days!
Q
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Didn't they make a noise? You didn't need the whistles on a cross country course when the horse was wearing a pair of those, you could hear it a mile away.
 
Blimey, you'd all think my tackroom was a museum!!

drop noseband - tick
rug roller (not anti-cast, striped webbing with leather pads) - tick
clacky overreach boots - tick
leather brushing boots - tick
atherton girth - tick
lampwick girth - tick
minimalist dressage saddle with universal girth billets - tick
woollen day rug - tick (though now cut down into an exercise sheet)
webbing and rope market halter - tick
pull-on long boots with garter straps and unshaped tops - tick

oh, and we've got a belfast sink under the water tap in the yard too.
 
Eggbut snaffles alive & kicking here still, tho more as a french link :)
I also have a belfst sink under the main yard tap.

Grackles seem to be back 'in' tho - and fluffy things ;) - on horses noses & anywhere else they can be put - a la 70's ;)

Not seen Dr Bristols tho for a long time & only odd kimblewick
 
Cptrayes you are right about them xc, they were a fashion favourite with jumping ponies, my poor mother would clean my white ones with an old tooth brush!
Genuinely can't remember seeing a horse in an eggbut, do have 2 in my tack room though!
Q
 
I was a 90s kid and we all had those rubber muckers, rode in them, mucked out in them.

I picked up a binded load of your horse magazines dating 1976-1992 having a look through them makes me laugh.

Who remembers the original puffa jackets the stripy ones in pink, blue and white hahaha.

Still use over girths on the polo ponies.
 
Not a piece of tack as such, but bridles etc in the very light tan then oiling to darken it.

Bandages rather than boots cross country.

Drops are starting to come back into fashion round here, especially for some of the matchy matchy dressage community.
 
Quadro said:
Genuinely can't remember seeing a horse in an eggbut, do have 2 in my tack room though!
Q
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My share horse has one! *feels positively ancient* :D

I worked in a riding school in my teens (late 90s) and they were possibly a bit behind the times even then but gosh, I kinda miss the process of rugging horses up for the night with a big thick blanket (neatly triangled and folded back), jute rug and roller.

I wondered about the over girth thing too. Spotted one at Badminton (possibly Sam Griffiths?) and it suddenly occurred to me I haven't seen one for ages.
 
Oh dear I am very out if fashion! My poor horse! She is regularly made to go out in public in a drop noseband and string girth. She also has a string vest sweat rug. I have string riding gloves (with leather palms). I have a Dr Bristol, and an eggbut snaffle in the tack room and hunt in a kimblewick. I also use a standing martingale.
 
The overgirth thing really puzzles me because the safety aspect never seems to have gone away, we just ask stopped using them for no reason I can fathom. Did girths used to break more often twenty years ago?
 
Thanks AA .... Is that what they were called? But knee boots ...?! I use mine every time I hack on roads as do all my yard buddies. Essential gear ...
 
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