Plaiting....what to do with the rubbed off mane section?

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Charla

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I plaited my boy today ready for his show tomorrow and I think it looks rather silly. He has a large section of mane which was rubbed off through winter and just spikes up! No where near enough mane to plait there. Is there anything I can do to make it look better?
 
Haha. I've just posted a pic of my boy looking equally silly. You can see it just down the page in my thread. You can make false ones and plait them in if you have any mane at all but I didn't have time this morning so he went with half a neck of plaits!
 
Oh haha I've just had a look and yours is very similar to how my boys is :p

How do you make false ones? Or can you buy them anywhere haha?
 
Thanks for that. I'm showing tomorrow inhand, just some experience for my youngster. It's only a local show though so wonder how much it will matter if I just leave it?
 
Lol this brings back memories...my first pony had bad sweetitch, I remember buying platinum blonde hair pieces from claires accessories (or whatever the equivalent was 13 years ago!) and plaiting them then putting bands onto the stubby bits of mane and sewing the fake plaits ontothe bands, then lots of gel and hair product! I only ever had one person notice, she went on and on about how amazing it looked...she only noticed when she patted my pony and a plait fell off...I was mortified....she looked surprised :-D
 
We have a sweet itch pony too, and his rug rubs half his mane out every year. By July there isnt even enough to attach fake plait to. TBH I now just accept it, and pull the rest of his mane very short and fine so that the plaits are not golf balls, and only plait half his mane. At local level he won every WH he went in last year like that, and when we went to the championships he also won the turnout prize like that! He even rubs half his tail out, and I manage to plait it! I now look forward to plaitting him more than the others as it only takes five mins to do four plaits!
 
When I plaited my boy up for bloodhounding, I just plaited the top and left the rest as it was too short to plait! You couldn't tell from a difference!
 
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