Urgent - should a dressage stock cross over or hang down?

Can't get it to cross over
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Can't... just put the bloody thing is the wash now because it got all grubby
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I can do the hanging down one no problem, but just don't get how you cross them over? My bloody stock came with FRENCH instructions, which are useless to me. Had they been in Spanish I would have been fine, but French I dropped before GCSE.
 
It's dressage, not best turned out! Tie it any way you like, I doubt the judge will notice. Have fun & good luck.
 
Im getting confused now. Of course they are crossed over to tie but then they hang down regardless!! Confusing me now, why dont you buy a ready tied one, ha ha!!
 
Sort of Weezy... but when they are crossed over they show outside of your jacket, but when straight down they are just hanging and all you can see if the straight piece at the front.

Hang on, this is what I mean:

Crossed stock

Straight down stock



And another question... do you attach the stock to your shirt with the pin???
 
The first one you showed a picture of its a ready tied stock that you just stick a pin in and the other is an ordinary stock that once tied, you let hang down.
 
Ah, but on the FRENCH instructions I have it says you can tie it either way and I didn't know which one was the correct way for dressage (at least that is what I think it is trying to say
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I think it will depend on how you do the knot at the throat and where the "tails" end up as a result. If the knot leaves the tails facing up and down (up your nose for one and down to your toes with the other) then the tails will hang straight down.

If the knot leaves the tails facing left and right then you can cross them on your chest and pin them. I would go with whatever fits with the knot you tie so that you don't have to retie it and get it dirty again (and you will be dirtier at the show - I always manage to be). Hope the test goes well!
 
How about a collar and tie???
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I dont think it matters for dressage if its cossed or straight. As long as its smart, fills the "V" in the top of the jacket with a neat pin in the middle you should be fine.

It depends on the material as to whether you pin it to your shirt. Mine is made of quite thick cotton material so realistically my pin wont go through both layers to my shirt and back again, but then it tends not to move much under my jacket as it is quite thick. If its shiny satin type material you may want to pin it to your shirt just to keep it in place.

Good luck with the test
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I just wear shirt and tie for dressage, or anything else I can get away with. Stocks are to fiddly, when I tie mine it looks like i have just tied a granny knot around my neck
 
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