Tweed in dressage- need matchy help!

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Does anyone else compete BD/quest in tweed?

If so what do you team it with? Stock or show shirt and which colour jods?

Does white jods/shirt and tweed ever look good and what colour saddlecloth if white won’t go?!

I have a brown tweed and a native but I feel like I stick out like a sore thumb. Do I need to join the white jods and bling club or can I make a tweed smart enough 🙈

Photos would be great!
 
Tweed is fine but I’d always go for non-white breeches & non-white stock with it.

White saddle cloth is fine, but I’ve also seen a cream saddlecloth used that matched breeches and that looks v smart too
 
I wear tweed with a blue shirt and navy tie, beige breeches and either a white saddle cloth or brown numnah.

If it is cold I might wear my stock shirt and stock instead.
 
The riders from my yard wear tweed, cream jods and a coloured stock, horses tend to have white squares and may have a bling browband, a hairy native breed which is doing quest aiming to reg BD as well as more quality types, I am old school and from a showing/ eventing background so tend to prefer to stay in tweed for everything at the lower levels which was always worn until fairly recently when plain jackets and white jods were allowed.
 
Tweed and a mustard stock and cream jods for me! Would love a cream pad but looks fine with white as well.
 
I have a hogged cob, and wear a green tweed jacket, dark beige jodhs, a navy stock, and white saddlecloth. For pure dressage we have a bling browband, and for eventing we don't
 
We haven’t joined the white jodhs brigade just yet! Mainly because they are so unforgiving on my thighs 🙈 no-one has ever commented on our getup yet! I have a white saddlecloth, beige breeches, navy tweed jacket and white stock. I’d like a navy and white spotty stock but the white one is a family hand-me-down from my father in law so I like to wear it for him 😊 (my husband’s family is a classic old fashioned hunting family so all forms of bling etc are frowned upon! The velvet brow band is the closest I can get to bling 😂)
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Yes have done - navy tweed and coloured stock. Navy cloth.

You can spot the eventers more easily that way haha. But shouldn’t impact your scores at all and I think you’ll look very smart.
 
Green tweed w/ navy velvet collar, yellow shirt, navy tie, navy velvet hat, fawny-beige breeches. My saddle's fitted to my white half-wool Nuu-med numnah, so I use that for everything - too bloody expensive to have multiples!
 
tatty_v said:
We haven’t joined the white jodhs brigade just yet! Mainly because they are so unforgiving on my thighs 🙈 no-one has ever commented on our getup yet! I have a white saddlecloth, beige breeches, navy tweed jacket and white stock. I’d like a navy and white spotty stock but the white one is a family hand-me-down from my father in law so I like to wear it for him 😊 (my husband’s family is a classic old fashioned hunting family so all forms of bling etc are frowned upon! The velvet brow band is the closest I can get to bling 😂)
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How in seven hells did you get your grey that white?!
 
I have a brown tweed, beige breeches, cream stock (coz its what I have and I haven't found a nice burgundy one), brown gloves and a 'champagne' half wool saddle pad from Nuumed. White really doesn't suit my coloured cob (shows up that I'm not as good with the supreme whitening powder as Tatty_v is!!!).

I've had judges comment that I look smart and appropriate for pony and level (up to Novice BD).
 
I compete in tweed on my welsh! White shirt, coloured stock (Blue goes nicely I think) and white jodpurs.. I have a lovely crystal pin which finishes it off. I have always used a white numnah and looks ok!

This isn't me, but how it looks..
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I wear tweed for two reasons:

Firstly I am proud of my natives breed and heritage so like our turnout to be true to that (and quite frankly, in dressage, a pony doing its hair-flying battle-trot amongst all those warmbloods is going to stand out anyway so a bit of tweed makes no difference ;) )

Secondly, riding kit is expensive, tweed does for most 'formal' situations. I would prefer to spend my money on the ponies themselves rather than extra kit
 
catkin said:
I wear tweed for two reasons:

Firstly I am proud of my natives breed and heritage so like our turnout to be true to that (and quite frankly, in dressage, a pony doing its hair-flying battle-trot amongst all those warmbloods is going to stand out anyway so a bit of tweed makes no difference ;) )

Secondly, riding kit is expensive, tweed does for most 'formal' situations. I would prefer to spend my money on the ponies themselves rather than extra kit
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Dressage is so forgiving when it comes to turnout that I figured I'd invest my money in gear suitable for showing! If I had a hack or a riding horse type, I'd have gone for a navy jacket, but my previous share horse was a hunter type, and my horse is a cob, so it's tweed all the way. If I ever get above elementary, I may reconsider getting a navy jacket, but the odds of that happening on my little tank are minimal.

Photo as requested, but the black velvet hat has now been replaced by a navy one. (The photo was taken while exiting the arena at high speed, which explains my expression!)
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Pad of "conservative" colour is the rule so you could possibly even get away with olive or bottle if you wanted, though dark brown, navy, black and some form of sand/cream would be safer. Mattes make at least two colours of cream numnah, there must be others as lots of people wear navy jacket and cream breeches and will want a matching pad.
 
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