Today's Burghley people spotting scores

[LouisCat]

So many white jeans and brown fairfax & favour suede boots... SUEDE?? It was always forecast to rain!

Also, so many people without coats and by 4pm lots of crying 2 or 3 year old children covered in mud, no coats and cold and wet. They looked utterly miserable

 

[ElleSkywalker]

At least the current uniform (tweed jacket, white jeans fairfax & favour or dubarry boots) is better than the joules tweed mini skirt and matching jacket with ridiculously 'I am far to posh to care' messy long blonde bed head hair :eek3: favoured a few years ago

 

[HeresHoping]

As for tweed, I didn't realise that some folk consider tweed aspirational, let alone desirable, off a horse, til this weekend. Both sexes were spotted wearing it, in the rain, yesterday.

Eh? Tweed is traditionally associated with the country and rural pastimes, both on and off the horse. Good for the manufacturers for recognising a fashionable side... am pretty sure there is many a sheep farmer rejoicing in the fact that he's getting a good return on his wool when he has been getting such a poor return on his meat. In fact, at £253/kg, I'm definitely buying me some Wensleydales and some Teeswaters. The sooner the better!

And isn't it wonderful to see aspiration of any sort in this day and age!

 

[RunToEarth]

So many white jeans and brown fairfax & favour suede boots... SUEDE?? It was always forecast to rain!

Also, so many people without coats and by 4pm lots of crying 2 or 3 year old children covered in mud, no coats and cold and wet. They looked utterly miserable

To be fair both my F&F's are sprayed and both are fairly robust in the mud. I opted for leather booties because I intended to spend 99% of the day in the beer tent and didn't want to be trodden on. Managed to do Burghley XC day without even seeing a horse.

 

[Shoei]

'At least the current uniform (tweed jacket, white jeans fairfax & favour or dubarry boots) is better than the joules tweed mini skirt and matching jacket with ridiculously 'I am far to posh to care' messy long blonde bed head hair'

They combined this look with wellies as I recall... even when baking hot and ground so hard it cracked....

 

[Shoei]

Male - blond floppy hair, pink shirt, khaki trousers and loafers.
Female - tweed skirt, blue blouse and loafers or the cleanest pair of Dubarrys you have ever seen.
They hang around in groups discussing skiing, sailing, weddings, etc. Also to be seen at Henley, Cowes and Twickenham.

You generally hear them before you see them... 'RAH, RAH, RAH... UMMM MUMMSY'

 

[RunToEarth]

You generally hear them before you see them... 'RAH, RAH, RAH... UMMM MUMMSY'

To be honest I would always rather run into a bunch of people in the "Burghley uniform" than a bunch of women who still stink of horse muck, have their jhods on and are speaking deliberately over loudly on Casper's suspensory ligament and Blaze's cracking clear round at Arena Life or Death the week before... Yes, we get it, you've got horses, just like 80% of the people and their long suffering OHs here today...

 

[Shoei]

To be honest I would always rather run into a bunch of people in the "Burghley uniform" than a bunch of women who still stink of horse muck, have their jhods on and are speaking deliberately over loudly on Casper's suspensory ligament and Blaze's cracking clear round at Arena Life or Death the week before... Yes, we get it, you've got horses, just like 80% of the people and their long suffering OHs here today...

Unfortunately, there seems to be a croud of these in my local area, they swarm in all sorts of places. supermarkets, the farm shop, just on street corners in the village!... Me and OH call them the pony clubers... despite the fact that they are all over 40 and never have a child in tow!

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

I love a bit of tweed! I wear my tweed 'jacket' (blazer) to family BBQ's, out in town, to a wedding, to birthday's, out to meals, everywhere. Didn't realise this was NOT normal?

I usually pair with jeans and ankle boots or heeled boots.

 

[Birker2020]

I watched Burghley XC on red button. I stayed dry .

I can never understand why people wear jodhs when they aren't riding. Any ideas?

I can understand why kids - 5-15 might, because me and my friends used to when we went to Burghley or Blenheim but it annoys the hell out of me when I see women walking around my home town trying to look snobby by wearing white jods, black boots that are designed to look like riding boots (with or without fake spur attached) and a red hacking jacket. I think they look utterly stupid and want to go up to them and say "if you want to pretend to be horsey come and muck out mine".

It annoys me the same as people who have these huge enormous Defenders and they wouldn't drive through mud to save their lives. We have them by where I keep the horse and they would rather take you off the road than risk the potential for getting a bit of mud on their wheels. GRR

 

[Elbie]

I remember finding a lost child at Burghley a few years back. I asked her to describe her mum to see if we could spot her, to which she said "she's wearing a stripey jumper". We looked out to a sea of stripes. Damn you Joules with all your stripey clobber!

 

[RunToEarth]

It annoys me the same as people who have these huge enormous Defenders and they wouldn't drive through mud to save their lives. We have them by where I keep the horse and they would rather take you off the road than risk the potential for getting a bit of mud on their wheels. GRR

I drive a Defender and live on a working farm. It annoys the hell out of me that the bottom lane is used as a rat run by a load of people driving far too quickly who expect me to get into the side, mudded and scratched up so they can go flying on their merry way. They are usually the same ones who come scooting past you when you’re driving an escort vehicle, shaking their heads at you “hogging the road” and manage to narrowly miss hitting a combine harvester head on travelling far too quickly.

 

[HeresHoping]

I love a bit of tweed! I wear my tweed 'jacket' (blazer) to family BBQ's, out in town, to a wedding, to birthday's, out to meals, everywhere. Didn't realise this was NOT normal?

I usually pair with jeans and ankle boots or heeled boots.

It's perfectly normal and respectable attire. Good for you. And, unless you are out for hours and hours, that close knit weave is pretty waterproof, too.

 

[teapot]

Eh? Tweed is traditionally associated with the country and rural pastimes, both on and off the horse. Good for the manufacturers for recognising a fashionable side... am pretty sure there is many a sheep farmer rejoicing in the fact that he's getting a good return on his wool when he has been getting such a poor return on his meat. In fact, at £253/kg, I'm definitely buying me some Wensleydales and some Teeswaters. The sooner the better!

And isn't it wonderful to see aspiration of any sort in this day and age!

Except only a few retail businesses use British wool to manufacture their tweed, instead opting for even cheaper markets abroad. Some fashionable tweed is so thin it's neither warm or waterproof.