Out of fashion tack.

Well this has brought back some memories from childhood! What about those sausage boots, travelling pads with bandages and poll guards for traveling too?
There are still some items around today that seem to have been around for yonks, like those woollen new market exercise sheets.
 
Not tack, but I've just remembered the old hats I used to wear at Pony Club, with the rubber 'cup' for your chin! After a mounted rally in the sun the sweat would pool in the bottom of the rubber cup. Yuck! The PC instructors used to go round tightening everyone's chin straps. "If you can talk while I'm talking then your chin strap isn't tight enough!" Yikes!
 
I prefer string girths to long leather ones, and they are fiendishly hard to find too (thanks for the link). Kineton nosebands - haven't seen one of them for ages, or a kimblewick. Globe cheek pelham anyone?
 
Beausmate said:
I have fulmer loops! And noisy original Westropps and tail guards with ties, rubber bit guards (or 'biscuits'), a bog-standard, stainless D-ring snaffle and a standing martingale. I have two silks that do up with ties, one is over 20 years old now :eek:

I've also managed to find a pair of cotton web reins, they have English leather bits, made in Walsall and I had to buy them in from the USA!

Does anyone use cavaletti any more?

Can you still get jodhs with those useless fob pockets, the ones that attached to the inside of the waistband?
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I have some rubber bit guards (simply because they were already on the bit when I got it and look a total pain to get off)
I hate lycra hat covers, when mine gets tatty I'm going to get a 'proper silk'
And yes - I have 1 pair jodhs with a useless fob pocket, although it's not as useless as the minute zip pocket in my best Pikeur's, you can't even fit half a packet of polos in that!
 
Ladyinred said:
Only eight years ago we put a string vest on our lad and 'thatched' under it as he was wet and cold. Went to fetch his feed and hay and found a circle of amazed ladies looking at him and asking what I was doing!

The loss of the eggbut snaffle might be a good thing, I have found some wickedly sharp edges on them where the moveable bit joins the fixed bit.

Cant find the tiny leather loops that held a Fulmer snaffle in place, all I get is funny looks (again!)
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I got mine from Robinson's mail order about a fortnight ago.
 
My Kineton - I always get laughed at/ asked what it is when I wear it. It is a very useful piece of kit.

Also when I was younger after hunting we would always stuff straw up their rugs to dry them quicker - when my therms were getting mended last year I did this and my friend found it hilarious.

I don't miss New Zealand's though - the inevitable wet day when you don't quite get hold of it properly and some muddy, wet and very heavy corner smacks you straight in the face.
 
String vest!!!! My horse still has a string vest for after competitions. I'm worried now that people are sniggering at us in the horsebox park.
 
flojo said:
I got mine from the local tack shop but you can get them online from Robinson's Equestrian.

It's a pet hate of mine to see full cheek/Fulmer bits without loops.
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It's one of my pet hates as well. The other bit related one is pelhams without lip straps or even worse with the spare links of the curb left hanging and not hooked up properly.

I also remember, and still have but would never wear, my first ever riding hat. Velvet, with just one strap and that it only held on by one rivet either side. The strap does up by passing through a metal loop and then has a popper to fasten it. V. smart hat (well it was till I overcleaned it), looks somewhat like a Patey but isn't. It's over 30 years old now, probably a museum piece.

Like I said before, I have trouble chucking horsey stuff out LOL:D
 
i love eggbutts but always use a lozenge. they can be hard to get hold of though.

I had a crupper for my lipizzaner with very low withers - but never dared use it as I thought i would look silly!

And I can still remember gallivanting round the garden dressed in my older sister's jodhpurs which were the cavalry twill with the sticky-out bits on the thighs!

oh and my jodh boots were amazingly comfy and had leather soles which were mended about 12 times before they finally fell apart.
 
lots of people talking about eggbutts as being old fashioned:confused3: Im sure some of you at least must be meaning a single jointed snaffle? Eggbutt is actually the cheek style and fixed (as opposed to loose ring) is as common place today as it’s always been.

I also have always loved a drop noseband, used one in the 90’s and ordered one today for one of my guys funnily enough! I think the rise of the mickelm has made people consider them again.

One thing I remember that Im glad you dont see nowadays are those awful chin cups that you used to have threaded onto your chin strap.:eek:
 
I love the sound of westropp overreach boots! I used to use them on my massive cob, because you could add sections and nothing else off-the-shelf would fit.

I have a string vest, too. I've not thatched it, but I stick it under a fleece to trap the warm air.
 
Toffee44 said:
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.
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I won a trolley dash round Robbies when I was a kid circa '93, got a greeny/blue Puffa with pink bits on it, thought I was the bees knees, its in the back bedroom somewhere, still fits and mum mended the cuffs and zip a few times, I cant bear to part with it! :o
 
My pony wore string reins and girth in PC colours, a two tone triangle zigzag plastic browband and bandages with gamgee. His bit was a nickel pelham with ribbing on one side with roundings and as a 'posh' kid I wore jods and short boots and a jackatex jacket and black velvet hat and cream string gloves to compete in. My saddle which I still have was a half panel Barnsby PC approved one in tan leather.
Now in my tack room I still have a woollen rug and several wool blankets, a canvas NZ, a broom handle 'cradle' for the neck to prevent the horse biting any wounds etc, A rug bib, overgirth, drop/kineton nosebands and Eggbutt snaffles, Dr. Bristol and the above pelham (a bit bent now) and an Abbott Davies Balancing Rein which I still use. Oh and I ride my connie in a slotted Kimblewick!
 
We've only owned ponies for about 10 yrs but must be terribly old fashioned because use a lot of these things. Have a drop noseband, only used occasionally, a kineton bought for a very strong jumper but didn't fit, prefer travel bandages to boots, have just bought a fulmer snaffle and loops from a local tack shop which has worked brilliantly on a youngster with steering issues when jumping, standing martingale, crupper on the shettie as she has no withers and am just considering a kimblewick for her as I hope she's found a little jockey.
 
Quadro said:
Fleece noseband and girth covers! Also bit rings seem to be out of fashion. I think i might quite fancy some westropp boots now!
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Yes! Back in the early 90s at my riding school, all the ponies had fur fabric girth sleeves, noseband covers and bit guards- all in co-ordinating colours!

Speaking of which, said picture was completed with a plain triangle (or if you were really fancy a 'diamond') velvet browband. Funny that no one seems to use plain velvet browbands for every day now- I've only ever seen them during mounted games these days. I suppose, as said before, there are so many other things to choose from now (bling/beaded etc). I remember thinking I was the bee's knees when I finally found a PURPLE velvet browband!

Not sure if it's already been mentioned but we had loads of the leather browbands/nosebands with the inlaid pieces of plastic-ky plaited stuff. My pony had one with red plaiting at one point. Off the top of my head, I remember red, blue, green, white and yellow! I also had a fab pair of Jeffries plaited (pony club style) nylon reins in brown- wish I still had them, actually!
 
SatsumaGirl said:
Speaking of which, said picture was completed with a plain triangle (or if you were really fancy a 'diamond') velvet browband. Funny that no one seems to use plain velvet browbands for every day now- I've only ever seen them during mounted games these days. I suppose, as said before, there are so many other things to choose from now (bling/beaded etc). I remember thinking I was the bee's knees when I finally found a PURPLE velvet browband!
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I remember getting my first red and blue triangle velvet browband for my little bay pony. It didn't have rosettes on the sides or anything like that, but I was SO proud of that thing! I must have been about 9. It went scruffy pretty quickly because I used to stroke it every time I walked past it, and it lived in the kitchen passage so that was a LOT!
 
Woolly Hat n Wellies said:
I remember getting my first red and blue triangle velvet browband for my little bay pony. It didn't have rosettes on the sides or anything like that, but I was SO proud of that thing! I must have been about 9. It went scruffy pretty quickly because I used to stroke it every time I walked past it, and it lived in the kitchen passage so that was a LOT!
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My first one was purple and brown triangles. The pony's bridle was dark havana and the leather sides were a much lighter brown/tan but I didn't care; it was purple so that's all the mattered! ;)
In hindsight, it probably looked like a Cadbury's hot chocolate tub...
 
I don't know if this is out of fashion, but when I was younger loads of horses seemed to wear those sausage boots- I never see them any more!
 
NZJenny said:
Plain Caveson nosebands. Have you tried to buy a bridle anytime recently with just a plain caveson?
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Yes! trying to get one in havana was even harder, so I gave up and bought a second hand one.

I've got a green and yellow velvet browband :p



When was the last time any of you saw a stable rubber for sale? And who still makes hay wisps these days? Or 'jockeys' out of tail hair to clean tack with?
 
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Oh I remember one! Remember the "clencher" brass browbands? I never had one myself but every other horse at the yard I worked at wore one!

Havent seen one in years!

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alainax said:
Oh I remember one! Remember the "clencher" brass browbands? I never had one myself but every other horse at the yard I worked at wore one!

Havent seen one in years!
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I loved those. I remember the horses at the yard I helped at as a teenager had clencher-style headcollars, and they were stunning. I'd still use one of those today if I saw one :)
 
I have also sold customers fulmar loops, drop nosebands, Kinetons, eggbuts, webbing girths, sausage boot fetlock boots, market harboroughs, westrop petal boots and more in the last month at work!
 
Show bows - don't think there was a pony left at the local shows in the early 90s that didn't have a set of them attached to their plaits:lol:
 
alainax said:
Oh I remember one! Remember the "clencher" brass browbands? I never had one myself but every other horse at the yard I worked at wore one!

Havent seen one in years!

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They were really smart. A bit of bling but not bljngy! I have one in the cupboard that I made at saddlery college in the late 80s. Along with an Atherstone girth and a Balding girth. All rarities. Should I donate them to a museum?
 
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