Plaiting for neck-flattering

[tigers_eye]

Now I know the old fashioned way is lots of little plaits on a thin neck, and fewer on a chunky neck, however I have always found the less plaits the better. I usually do 8 down the neck, whatever the horse. I do them as "Anky" plaits, stitched up, doing the top of the plait quite loose so I can add an extra inch to the height of the neck. However, I've never tried the other dressage fashion of loads and loads of little vertical plaits with white tape. My question is, what do you think will be best for showing off Wes? Even when he puts on weight he will be a long, skinny horse, although his neck is well-defined and the right way on. So what plaits do you think will do him the most justice? If necessary I will experiment before he is sold, I can try out different ways and post pics. Any opinions appreciated!

 

[clipclop]

Oooh yes, do different ways and post.

I want to play around with plaiting but really am not sure how to change my method. I have been doing the same thing for so long.

We could do a vote on which of your methods we think looks best? It'll be fun

 

[piebaldsparkle]

I was always told to do an odd number of plaits down the neck, or visually the neck gets cut in half.

Fewer plaits shorten the neck and loads of plaits lengthen the neck.

If neck skinny place the plaits high to give the neck added depth and if chunky place low, so they don't make the neck look any chunkier.

 

[KatB]

If he is long and skinny, you want chunkier fewer plaits, the chunkyness adds width, and the lesser number makes the neck appear shorter! If he had a skinny normal length neck, you'd do slightly more plaits, but still chunky. If like my boy they have a short weedyneck, you do lots of "high set" plaits again to make topline look more, but the larger no. making the neck look longer. Hope that makes sense!?