Tie for dressage?

[MB1201]

Hi,

I am doing an unafilliated dressage comp on Friday, I will be wearing yellow/cream breeches with a black jacket and white shirt, I have got a white tie but it's skinny? Can I wear any colour tie at this level?

 

[CrazyMare]

Technically (for ladies) a black or navy jacket should be worn with a stock in cream or white. A coloured tie can be worn with tweed or a coloured stock.

 

[eggs]

At unaffiliated you could wear any colour tie although a stock is more correct. You can also wear a shirt with an American collar and then you don't wear a tie or stock.

 

[Batgirl]

You can wear any colour tie with any colour shirt. There is no 'technically' about it, the rules for BD (which most unaffiliated adhere to):

Introductory to Advanced Medium tests (including FEI Junior tests) – uniform, short jacket or tweed coat with correctly tied stock, white American Collar or shirt and tie, and protective hat.

I wear a pink shirt and a navy tie with little hippos on it, perfectly within the rules. Wear what you have

 

[kc100]

Any colour tie will be fine - as Batgirl said, the rules only ask for a jacket of some description (can be tweed or another conservative colour), a correctly tied stock or a shirt and tie. The Dressage world tend not to like garish colours, and if you have an older judge that will definitely be the case - so if you have a very bright coloured tie I wouldnt wear that. But I've seen plenty of people in mustard/yellow ties doing unaff dressage (normally with a tweed jacket however) and no judge has ever commented.

Its only unaffiliated so wear whatever you have - as long as you are clean and smart I doubt anyone will pay much attention to your tie, unless is fluorescent pink!