I'm taking my friend's mare to do an in-hand class at a show next week ... can I just wear plain black trousers and jodhpur boots with a shirt, tie and show jacket?
With coloureds, you normally tend to wear a tweed jacket - even with non hairies, but if local showing, don't worry.
Avoid black jackets, hats and gloves if you can as these are not correct unless you are a gent in the show ring. If you can get hold a show cane this helps finish the picture and have your hair either in a plait or bun or netted if long.
Personally and this is my preference, I would rather use a dark colour other than black trousers when showing as I wear a tweed. A fair few people use beige trousers for coloured showing. I have brown trousers for the brown tweed and dark green or navy for the green tweed with navy collar - I am a woman of too many show clothes
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With coloureds, you normally tend to wear a tweed jacket - even with non hairies, but if local showing, don't worry.
Avoid black jackets, hats and gloves if you can as these are not correct unless you are a gent in the show ring. If you can get hold a show cane this helps finish the picture and have your hair either in a plait or bun or netted if long.
Personally and this is my preference, I would rather use a dark colour other than black trousers when showing as I wear a tweed. A fair few people use beige trousers for coloured showing. I have brown trousers for the brown tweed and dark green or navy for the green tweed with navy collar - I am a woman of too many show clothes
Good luck and I hope you have fun.
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Ditto, hate black trousers with a horse of any colour, they look really tacky.