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Today, I had to tie up my new Shires over-trousers with (hides) Binder Twine as they wouldn't stay up. Thats it, the horses have reduced me to this. I am in my heart a cashmere and silk type of girl and there is only so far I can sink.

What are your worst dressed horse moments?
 
HeHe competing with a hole in my breeches at the crutch with bright pink knickers on! then it rained like hell and my whole bum was pink!!!

Mucking out day with holey jeans on and the leg fell off rather high up! Lucky im not shy:)
 
Nothing wrong with baler twine, and lets face it you would not want to be tying them up with cashmere or silk so I fail to see a problem ;) I am permenently badly dressed so no real worst moments as they are all bad :D :D
 
Mine involves binder twine too :eek: Borrowed Dad's annorack (can't remember why now) It had a hole in the pocket which had got stuffed with twine, resulting in the whole garment being insulated with the stuff :D Because it was so big on me I tied the middle with twine. It was actually a good thing as the tbxwelsh decided to boot me :eek: the padding in the coat helped soften the blow :D
 
When I started helping at a riding school in order to learn about horses (my parents couldn't justify the cost of lessons) it was the 1970s. The other girls wore flaired jeans (Wrangler or Levis), tank tops, loons... My Mum said I couldn't wear "good" clothes to the stables so made me wear her old clothes from her youth.

When I objected, Mum said in that case, no stables...

So off I went to catch the bus, dressed in 1950's cast-offs. I remember getting on the bus and my friend (ha!) saying she couldn't sit with me, and be associated with the black & white dogs tooth stretch "trews" I was wearing, which were held under the foot by a piece of elastic...

How I'd love to own those trews now. Even though you did have to be Audrey Hepburn to carry them off.
 
Canteron - if anyone comments on your baler twine, just say it's because you've lost weight and your over trousers are now too big. They'll be impressed by your successful diet!

And worst dressed moments? For me, the list would be far too long. If we were to do best dressed moments instead, I could probably list them on one line!
 
Mine would be long boots held together with several layers of parcel tape after a zip broke before a lesson!

Though there are many others, I'm another whose mother wouldn't let me go to the stables in "good clothes" so I'd wear old stuff and cast offs with my jodhs. I remember a lovely 70s scandanavian style jumper which was mortifying at the time but would be very this season now (must look it out, my mum will still have it and it was VERY warm). There was also a gilet with cordrouy patches on the shoulders, which was also lovely and warm but very uncool. I still do feel reluctant to wear good stuff to the stables and have a lovely array of t-shirts for the stables advertising a variety of alcoholic beverages from my days as a barmaid.

Although the most horrifying was my old skull cap, back when skull caps were modern and new, and my mum wanted me to have one to be safe even though everyone else had velvet caps with elastic under the chin......... it was soooooo ugly even next to the skull caps that started to appear not long after, it was made by Jofa* if anyone remembers them and as I have a rather large head anyway (now a size 4 as an adult) I looked awful........

*I bet no one other than Kerilli knows what I am on about!
 
Answering the door to my very well dressed neighbour having just finished the spring muck out of deep litter and stable disinfecting wearing very very old leggings with holes in a tshirt stained with heaven knows what and smelling of a mixture of amonia and jeyes fluid! All topped of with my hair scraped up into a very attractive pineapple and I had a very red sweaty face!

He was terribly polite but I'm sure he looks at my husband with a mixture of sympathy and pity whenever he sees him now. :o
 
KristmasKatt said:
it was soooooo ugly even next to the skull caps that started to appear not long after, it was made by Jofa* if anyone remembers them and as I have a rather large head anyway (now a size 4 as an adult) I looked awful........

*I bet no one other than Kerilli knows what I am on about!
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I do too! :o

Remember them that is! My head is not in comparison with yours for size tho :D
 
When I had sent my boy to be professionally broken in,I was shown what to do long reining.The woman was watching me to make sure I was doing it right,suddenly my bra strap broke.I told her she burst out laughing. lol lol I still had to carry on.
 
smiffyimp said:
HeHe competing with a hole in my breeches at the crutch with bright pink knickers on! then it rained like hell and my whole bum was pink!!!

Mucking out day with holey jeans on and the leg fell off rather high up! Lucky im not shy:)
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My favourite yard/riding jeans have a horizontal spilt just below my butt cheek but they are so comfy :o
 
I had some double-lined trousers last winter and as I cocked my leg to climb through some P&R fencing, the outer layer of one leg split from crotch to ankle! I still had to poo-pick my field so I proceeded with that leg flapping around like a windsail :D Thankfully the stretchy inner layer held fast to protect my modesty!!
 
I too had a Jofa Riding Helmet - maybe we can start a support group for those whose parents made us wear one:-)

Worst dressed moments far too many to list but I think being on a cross channel ferry wondering why people were giving me odd looks only to find out later that Vardi had given me a farewell kiss which had plastered my back in a nice slurry of showmix and linseed so to all intents and purposes it looked like someone had vomited down my back was one of the low points.
 
I remember the Jofa helmets! My friend had one with padded harness round the ears, and i felt so sorry for her. My mum was not horsey but did have some sense of style so I got a nice navy velvet.

My worst moments are usually before or after work when I have a combo of work (office) clothes, and old horsey clothes.
 
I have a beautiful cream ariat coat filled with duck down that is just too comfy and warm not to wear down the yard. However, I managed to get some funny looks in tesco the other week after tending to a rather nasty cut on my mare's leg on a wet and muddy night.
 
Stupid phone posted before I was ready :o
Anyway, with my incredibly attractive mudruckers and cream coat with blood and mud all over the sleeves and front I'm sure people were thinking I'd been doing something alot more sinister than tending to my horse, lol.
 
I've worn bread bags in my wellies too! :D

When I left my hat at home and wanted to school my horse at the (riding school) yard after teaching, I had to borrow one of the schools skull caps. Too big, too stinky, no cover and a big fat tippexed 2 on the front. How I wished I hadn't asked my new boyfriend to pick me up early so he could see me ride *showoff* on my horse :mad:
 
domane said:
I had some double-lined trousers last winter and as I cocked my leg to climb through some P&R fencing, the outer layer of one leg split from crotch to ankle! I still had to poo-pick my field so I proceeded with that leg flapping around like a windsail :D Thankfully the stretchy inner layer held fast to protect my modesty!!
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I cam sympathise with a lot of these posts! Does that make me particularly scruffy??!!

My combat trousers split like that at a pony club show this year while I was helping clear an arena (watched by all the immaculate yummy mummies who never help!). I had to wear my long wax jacket all day after that!

I can also remember Jofa hats - thankfully never had one, but my friend did!

Both my fave jods have almost crotchless crotches too - I have to co ordinate knickers if I wear them!
 
To many and numerous to mention or even remember:rolleyes:

Hacking with the back seem of my breeches/jods having given way at some point so my knicks on display was probably a low point especially as we rode through the village - small village and know a lot of people:rolleyes:) Have had lots of times when out finding hay/straw/feed attached somewhere or mud.....:rolleyes:*sigh* I am usually in a city when I discover these........

Sounds so attractive doesn't it.......:o
 
archiepoo said:
golly khristmaskatt your heads gigantic lol!!!! (you must be a bloomin genius):D:D:D:D:D:D
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Yeah thanks, :o sadly I think it is more thick skull than masses of brains! :o

The Fuzzy Furry said:
I do too! :o

Remember them that is! My head is not in comparison with yours for size tho :D
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Um ok, thanks for highlighting the giganticness of my head again there! :o

Did you actually have one or just mock some poor bu99er afflicted by one?

Chavhorse said:
I too had a Jofa Riding Helmet - maybe we can start a support group for those whose parents made us wear one:-)
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Yay! You, me, my little sister and Kerrilli in a support group for those scarred by Jofa hats.

Did you have the big ugly skull cap, or the big ugly velvet covered one? My first one (yes I had the misfortune to have two, because my massive head grew out of the first one....) was velvet then I had one with a silk.

I was soooooooo relieved when they changed the safety standard and I *HAD* to get a normal skull cap.

Brandy said:
I remember the Jofa helmets! My friend had one with padded harness round the ears, and i felt so sorry for her. My mum was not horsey but did have some sense of style so I got a nice navy velvet.
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Thanks for the sympathy, does your friend want to join the support group?? Is she still suffering the effects?

Honey08 said:
I can also remember Jofa hats - thankfully never had one, but my friend did!
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Tell her about the support group!


Anyway glad to have been able to entertain everyone with my massive head and huge round ugly nasty riding hat forced upon me by my non-horsey mother who thought that the big ear protectors might protect me from some kind of fatal accident :rolleyes:
 
I WANTED a Jofa hat! They were new, and different..................and I was young and stupid! Mother wouldn't buy me one, she said they looked stupid (and she went to parent's evening with purple streaks in her hair, the shame)!

Whilst showing off to a new boyfriend, many years ago, my skin tight jeans split down the back seam just as my pony did a squeal/buck/fart fandango. I'm sure, deep down, he thought I'd passed wind and blew my jeans apart............wasn't a long and meaningful relationship, lol!
 
OK, I had a jofa, my friend had a lovely velvet hat and smart pony. Circa early 80's:

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I have far too many daily occurances of fashion mishaps that the jofa was only the start of!

ooopps sorry for the size
 
A friend at work had a strange dream about me the other night,dreamt I waltzed into work wearing a very glamorous ,clingy,blingy dress with my hair beautifully coiffured with bouncy curls.Realised then even my non horsey pals think I am in drastic need of a makeover.This is the only interpretation I can make of the dream.Think I must spend too much team in jods and adorning straw in my hair.
 
Going out on a hack with my old tatty PJ's on. I only noticed half way around :o
Thank god nothing happened, as I had no knickers or bra on either. The joys of having your horses at home! :D
 
The elastic at the waist has gone in my old favorite pull on jods (they are also a fetching shade of grey now instead of black). I've been using a bulldog clip to hold them up. I also have another pair of old favorites that I only wear on Sundays because they are my 'holey' jods! (joke!)
I am terrible for wearing clothes which have gone past the point of no return, Its not as if I don't have anything decent -I have brand new stuff which I've never worn sitting there still with its labels attached. This is probably a sign of some weird personality disorder :)
 
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