Somebody colour coordinate me!

[GrumpyMare]

Hello all from a very un colour coordinated person!

I'm off to an in hand show at the end of January, my first! and have been instructed to wear a jacket, shirt, tie and trousers. I have a green tweed jacket sorted, but am in decisive about shirt, tie and trouser colours. I understand the trousers must be opposit colour to your horse's legs, however my horse has half black, half white legs (black at top, white at the bottom) so what colour should I be looking for?

I was thinking white shirt, dark green tie, green tweed jacket and mint/light green trousers, but I am a walking fashion disaster so this is probably wrong. Anyone care to enlighten me on what colour shirt, tie and trousers to have that work together?

 

[tabithakat64]

Green tweed and tie are fine.
I'd go for a cream or pale yellow shirt and biege trousers, you need brown gloves, show cane and also suitable brown (havanna) tack for your horse, a hunter style bridle with a snaffle bit.
You will also need to wear matching Johd boots or similar that you can run in.

 

[GrumpyMare]

Thanks for the tips I've got the Havana tack and brown boots all sorted anyway and a show cane, do need some gloves though, (I don't ride with em). Was actually considering a pale yellow shirt as well; what colour tie would go with that? The show is desribed as casual with shirt and tie desireable

 

[trottingon]

Hi
Either a white or pale yellow shirt would be fine, and I also think mid/dark beige or perhaps mid/light brown trousers would be good, they won't get in the way of the judge seeing your horse's leg movements at all. Be careful with footwear, a lot of joddy boots don't have much grip and can be very slippy when trying to keep up with a horse trotting out. Plenty of people these days wear very discreet leather or trainer type shoes for grip - eg: Mountain Horse Mountain Rider/Easyrider/Cozyrider - types like that.

 

[trottingon]

Do you have a hat? Either a riding hat, or some sort of tweed or waxed hat or cap would be fine. Lots of people show in hand without a hat of any kind but it is more correct to wear one. For some reason an awful lot of Welshie handlers don't use any headwear, I don't know why.